The
country's first-ever fully-automated driverless train service is going to be
flagged off on 28th December 2020 by the PM of India. Fully
operational National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) services will also be launched
on the Airport Express Line. The inauguration
is being held via video conferencing since 11:00 am today on 28th
Dec. The driverless metro train will run on the 37-km Magenta Line, connecting
Janakpuri West and Botanical Garden.
The DMRC will enter the elite
league of "7% of world's Metro networks" with the commencement of
these new-generation trains, which can operate services without drivers,
according to DMRC. It has also been informed
that by mid-2021, another major corridor of the Delhi Metro - 57 km Pink Line
(Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) - will also have driverless operations. Once the
driverless trains are operationalized on the Pink Link too, the DMRC will have
a driverless network length of about 94 km which will be approximately 9% of the
world's total driverless metro network.
Features of Driverless Train
Primarily, drivers will be allocated
for operating the trains, formerly they would be gradually withdrawn to move to
Unattended Train Operation (UTO). The driverless train will have six coaches
along with several advanced features.
Current operational network of Delhi Metro spans about 390 km with 285 stations across 11 corridors (including NOIDA Greater NOIDA line). On regular days, the average daily ridership of the Delhi Metro is over 26 lakh. The metro rail scenario in the entire nation has undergone a massive transformation in the last six years. While in 2014, only 248 km of metro lines were operational in five cities, presently 702 km are operational in 18 cities in India.
National Common Mobility Card (NCMC)
The NCMC services on the Airport Express Line are being launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. After the launch, travelers will be able to use the NCMC on any corridor of the Delhi Metro. PM Modi in March 2019 had launched the indigenously-developed NCMC to enable people to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including availing of metro and bus services across the country. Branded as 'One Nation One Card', the inter-operable transport card allows commuters to also pay for their bus travel, toll taxes, parking charges, retail shopping and even withdraw money.
The NCMC will be fully operationalized on the Airport Line and will also be a major milestone as anyone carrying a RuPay-Debit Card issued in the last 18 months by 23 banks from any part of the country will be able to travel on this line using that card. (All these are NCMC compliant as per directions of the Department of Financial Services, Government of India). The same facility will become available on the entire Delhi Metro network by 2022.
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