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Line 1 conversion makes metro history

Murray Hughes

Abstract

It has been fourteen years since RATP (Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports) launched driverless trains on Line 14 of the Paris metro, and since that time driverless metro lines have been deployed in several countries, with unattended operation accounting for around two-thirds of all new metro projects. RATP is now converting an old line with manually-driven trains (Line 1) to driverless operation, and this article presents the details of the conversion, including testing, operations and future projects.

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Key concepts: Train, Line (geometry), Launched, Transport engineering, Telecommunications, Engineering, Transit (satellite), Rail transit