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Meanwhile in more civilized places we have trains with zero staff on board, just remote monitoring (and trains which emergency stop if they lose contact with th
by cperciva 1y ago
Meanwhile in more civilized places we have trains with zero staff on board, just remote monitoring (and trains which emergency stop if they lose contact with the control centre).
- ghostofdang 1y agoBART
- stuaxo 1y agoThe DLR in London was like this, but reverted to being staffed for safety. At some point kids chased another kid onto the tracks, was one incident.
- fredoralive 1y agoAFAIK the DLR has always been staffed, there’s never been a period where it was truely driverless. However, as it was designed for automatic train operation from the start, it is effectively “guard (US: conductor) only operation” instead of “driver only operation”, and doesn’t have a traditional drivers cab.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoDLR has a passenger assistant who can “drive” the train in some circumstances if required (reports of trespassing on track) but is not for driving and certainly doesn’t always happen. Only completely unstaffed vehicles in the U.K. that I can think of are short people movers like the ones at airports. Many tube lines can be driven completely automated, the drivers job on lines like the central is basically “push go, hold deadman’s switch, push door close” and repeat, but they aren’t In other countries on lines which are staffers vehicles there are typically far more platform based staff.
- kimos 1y agoThe REM in Montréal is driverless.
- mikhailfranco 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_syste... The length ranking seems to be something like: Riyadh - 176 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_Metro Dubai - 90km, first operation 2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Metro London DLR - 38 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway Shanghai is probably in the running as it upgrades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#Infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#Infrastructure
- cperciva 1y agoSingapore and Vancouver are also pretty high in the rankings.