Mumbai Metro’s first ‘Driverless’ prepare to reach on January 27
Image Source : FILE/PTI Mumbai Metro’s first ‘Driverless’ prepare to reach on January 27
Mumbai Metro will get its first of its indigenously-manufactured driverless trains from Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. Bengaluru, Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde mentioned right here on Wednesday.
The first of those computerized Metro trains will attain the Charkop Metro Carshed in Mumbai on January 27 and after operational assessments, shall be deployed on the 2 new Metro routes scheduled to start out from May this yr, he mentioned.
“This will be a driverless Metro train, running automatically. But, in order not to panic or make passengers feel unsafe, for around six months initially, they will be operated by a motorman. The trains will have a max speed limit of 80kmph,” mentioned Shinde.
The new driverless trains shall be run on Metro 2A Dahisar to DN Nagar and Metro 7 Dahisar to Andheri East, a full seven years after the nation’s business capital obtained its first 11-km lengthy Metro on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar sector.
Shinde mentioned that below the steering of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the development of those Metro strains and stations are accelerated, and being executed by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is within the last levels.
The BEML will manufacture round 390 coaches, comprising 65 rakes of 6 coaches every for the proposed 340-km lengthy Mumbai Metro community, at price of Rs 3,015 crore – that are round 20 % extra economical than these manufactured internationally.
Each coach will seat 52 passengers and the capability of every prepare is round 2,280 passengers, and whereas 6 rakes shall be delivered in subsequent six months, the remainder shall comply with over the approaching three years.
During his go to to the Bengaluru web site, Shinde together with MMRDA’s Director of Systems Rajiv Agarwal met BEML CMD Dr D.Ok. Hota and different high officers.
Shinde additionally reviewed the newest world-class expertise and measures taken for passenger security and safety in addition to the facilities provided in every prepare.
The trains have state-of-the-art expertise like VVVF, Train Control and Management System for velocity management and security, optical fibre in every coach for Internet, and the coaches are designed to preserve vitality and change to different non-conventional vitality in case of an influence outage.
All trains are air-conditioned with computerized doorways, passenger announcement and knowledge system, anti-skid ground to forestall slipping, fire-fighting, CCTVs in prepare and on platforms, an emergency assist button, and many others.
In September 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the primary coach of the Mumbai Metro below the ‘Make In India’ initiative.
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