Metro’s regulator raised safety questions Tuesday that it said the transit agency must answer before the rail system can restart an automatic train-piloting system that hasn’t been used for 14 years.
Metro officials said they have been preparing for the conversion since creating a program office to relaunch the system in 2019. Infrastructure rebuilding projects have laid the groundwork for the move, they added.Systems across the country, including subways and rail lines in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta, use some form of ATO.
notice a parked train that was in the path of another moving at 44 mph between the Takoma and Fort Totten stations. watching passenger boardings, closing doors, watching for track obstructions and monitoring train functions. “They do have to be ready to perform, for instance, if a train is not stopping when it’s programed to stop,” Mayer told commissioners. “Providing automation could have the unintended consequence of further disengaging them from the task. Keeping humans appropriately in the loop will be will be a matter that is also important in the automated era if we return to it.”Lauby, a former chief safety officer for the Federal Railroad Administration, raised other concerns.
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