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 deadliest ...

This video is no longer available. Monday was the first big commuter day where riders hopped aboard fully automated trains on Metro’s Red Line. As they went about their busy morning with heads down ...

The safety oversight panel monitoring Metro’s rail system said in the first 10 days of automated train operation on the Green and Yellow Lines, there have been significantly less station overruns than ...

Metro's Red Line trains are now fully automated, but most commuters didn't even notice the change. Monday marked the first major test of Metro's transition to automated trains during a busy commuter ...

Metro planned to bring faster, smoother automated trains to the system’s Green Line this weekend. But the agency is being blocked by its safety watchdog, which said the rail system cannot expand ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — After a 15-year hiatus, Metro is poised to resume its Automated Train Operation (ATO), beginning on the tracks along the Red Line. ATO is purportedly safer than manual train ...

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 collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the ...

A NYC urban planning research group published a study about train operation, calling on the MTA to make a driverless system for its planned Interborough Express (IBX) rail line through Brooklyn and ...