Metro plans to return to automatic train operation for first time since tragic 2009 crash . by Tom Roussey. Thu, March 9th 2023 at 6:49 PM. Updated Fri, March 10th 2023 at 4:47 AM. 3.

Metro is preparing to restart automatic train operation for the first time since the deadly 2009 Red Line crash. Metro is making final preparations to change the way it operates its trains.

Metro is proposing a return to automatic train operation, which it has not used since a deadly 2009 accident on the Red Line that killed nine people.

Since about 2018, Metro has been restoring and updating the infrastructure needed to run the automatic system. Last week, Metro officials said tests of the automated system on the Red Line are ...

Metro’s Automatic Train Control system was blamed for the crash that killed nine people in 2009. ... Train door opening functions also are set to return to automatic operation, ...

The Automatic Train Operation disagreement is not the first time Metro and the safety commission that oversees it have butted heads. This latest disagreement led Metro leaders on Thursday to call ...

WASHINGTON — Metro wants to try automatic train operation again, and soon. By this December, it hopes to automate the Red Line. Automatic train operation was halted 15 years ago after the ...

It is likely to be years before Metro resumes automatic train operation, which was faulted in the deadly 2009 Red Line crash, because the transit agency is not confident that it is safe, officials ...

WASHINGTON — DC Metrorail will not be allowed to expand use of Automatic Train Operation, the automated system currently in use on its Red Line, because trains are overshooting station stops too ...

Metro suspended automatic train operation after the 2009 Fort Totten crash, even though the system was not the cause of the crash. Metro spent years fixing the signaling system, ...

Railergy has selected Mountain View, Calif.-based Aeva to supply 4D LiDAR™ technology for its automatic train operation (ATO) system used in switching, main line and last-mile applications at ports, ...