.WMATA seeks to bring automatic operation back for Red Line
The transportation organization announced in a presentation on Monday that this would take the Red Line off manual human operation, and the rest of the lines would become automatic by the end of 2023.
The Metro system was intended and operated to be fully automated until 2009, when a sensor malfunctioned and caused a train to crash at full speed into a standing train. Nine people were killed, and dozens were injured.Despite the ATO not being a direct cause of the crash, D.C. Metro took the system offline, replacing it with trains run by staff.
Of the 42 transit systems it reviewed, Metro is one of eight systems that operate at a level 1, driver-controlled operation, and the only one of the eight that was originally designed for ATO. “We are the only transit rail property in the world that has regressed from the technology we started with,” he said. “We ran on an ATO system, which is the way every major safe rail system in the world operates — and we don’t operate on that now. It is much safer to run an ATO than it is the way we do manual today."
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