As cities continue to expand, railways are expected to become an important component of urban mobility systems. Compared with ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Metro Red Line passengers will begin getting rides on automatic trains starting Sunday, 15 years after the system was halted due to safety concerns following a deadly crash in ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Metro hopes to once again run automated trains starting later this month. The transit agency said it wants to return to using Automatic Train Operation (ATO), which is essentially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — After a 15-year hiatus, Metro is poised to resume its Automated Train Operation (ATO), beginning on the ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announced Tuesday that its Automatic Train Operation (ATO) is set to launch along two metro lines. Starting on ...

WASHINGTON — The future of Metro is automatic. WMATA is working to restore automatic train operation (ATO) throughout the Metro system, and it’s nearly ready. Metro announced just a few months ago ...

The D.C. Metro system is planning a return to self-piloting trains in coming months, 15 years after automated trains were turned off in the wake of a crash on the Red Line that killed a train operator ...

Metro launched its Automatic Train Operations on the Red Line in December. According to the Washington Metrorail Safety ...

WASHINGTON — Just six months after the return of automated Metro trains to D.C., the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority received the green light to bring Automatic Train Operation to the ...

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has been testing automatic doors on trains in the Washington, D.C. area over the last three weeks as part of a plan to reintroduce automatic doors by ...

San Francisco transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks. The Municipal Transportation Agency ...

Automatic doors are now operating on all Metrorail lines, cutting wait times for Washington, D.C.-area commuters by up to 10 seconds per stop. Train doors will now open automatically 3-5 seconds after ...