DRIVERLESS UNATTENDED METRO SOLUTIONS: THE ANSWER TO THE CURRENT AND FUTURE NEEDS OF URBAN MOBILITY

Within the urban public transport sector the significant increasing of transport demand, passengers requirements in terms of service comfort, efficiency and punctuality and the restricted budgets of regional and local Authorities to operate the mass transit infrastructures, oblige the local Authorities and the Operators to steer towards transportation systems offering at first a very high-quality, attractive, safe and reliable service as a real alternative to the private cars to answer to the passengers requirements and at second, as staff represent a significant part of the costs of running a metro system, at a low operating costs. The Driverless Unattended Metro (UTO) is an opportunity to improve both service performance and economic efficiency and at the same time to satisfy both Operators and Passengers needs

• Corporate Authors:

  International Association of Public Transport (UITP)

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  Brussels,   Belgium  BE-1080
• Authors:
  • Marino, Paolo
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 21
• Serial:
  • CONGRESS - DUBAI 2011
  • Issue Number: Expo forum 11

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Passenger comfort; Public transit; Quality of service; Transit vehicle operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driverless rail transit
• UITP Terms: Metro operation
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01338978
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Association of Public Transport (UITP)
• Files: UITP
• Created Date: May 3 2011 2:27PM