WASHINGTON — DC Metrorail is now operating its entire system with Automatic Train Operation, having expanded use of the ...

Just six months after the return of automated Metro trains to D.C., the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ...

Metro has announced that it will expand automated train service to the Blue, Orange and Silver Lines on Sunday, achieving ...

Train coupling systems have come a long way, evolving from the manual methods used in the early days of rail travel to the ...

Automatic train operation is extending to Metrorail’s Blue, Orange and Silver lines on June 15, making all of lines having the automatic system. Metro's Blue, Orange and Silver lines will be running ...

Expanded DC Metrorail operations using Automatic Train Operation have gone smoothly, but the Washington Metrorail Safety ...

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 ...

One details how two trains came within 400 feet of a head-on collision, and another could delay automatic train operation from moving beyond the Red Line. Safety investigators said a communication ...

At the remote supervision and control workstation, the human operator keeps an eye on the automated train. In the project, an ATO unit installed on the locomotive in combination with the ETCS Level 2 ...

The transit agency said it wants to return to using Automatic Train Operation (ATO), which is essentially an autopilot feature, by the end of this month on the Red Line and by next summer for all ...

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 ...