Driverless (CBTC) Communications-based train control
KOLKATA: All the up and coming Metro lines, including the East-West passage for which a portion of the rakes have arrived, will have driverless trains.
Famously known as "driverless innovation", the correspondence based prepare control (CBTC) framework prepares Metro trains to keep running without human mediation. East-West Metro will, be that as it may, have drivers for the time being to impart trust in travelers. Alternate passageways are likewise prone to have drivers, at any rate in the underlying years. As needs be, it has likewise been chosen that all the new stations will have stage screen entryways, which will be coordinated with the programmed CBTC programming, a redesigned flagging framework that utilizations media transmission and is more exact than other railroad innovation utilized up until this point. The tasks will be checked from an incorporated control focus.
the development of first submerged rail burrow is finished and its most astonishing piece is that it occurred in front of the timetable. The due date was July 2017.
The organizations in charge of burrowing the nation's first passage under the Hooghly River for setting up metro connect among Howrah and Kolkata are Afcons Transtonnelstroy and Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation Ltd.
Machine utilized for burrowing the submerged passage:
Rachna, a mammoth passage exhausting machine (TBM), was sent to burrow the submerged passage that runs a length of 502 meters under the stream.
The machine was brought from Herrenknecht AG plant in Schwanau, Germany. Source
About the undertaking:
The aggregate length of the whole metro venture is 16.6 km long, out of which 10.8 km keeps running under the ground. Of this 10.8 km, 502 meters is under the water
The metro rail venture interfaces Howrah toward the west and Salt Lake toward the east
Afcons Transtonnelstroy is in charge of building the undertaking while KMRCL will execute it
The stretch of 16.6 km will have 12 stations, six of which will be under the ground, while the staying six metro stations will be on lifted tracks
The last appointing of the undertaking is booked by December 2019, after which it will be operational
The aggregate task cost is USD 750 million
Defers confronted:
Since the starting, the venture was held up a few times for the most part because of land portion, ghetto movement and course arrangement issues among others.
The venture was initially slated to be finished by 2012. It was first deferred to 2015 lastly to December 2019.
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