SWITZERLAND: Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger formally inaugurated Lausanne's automatic metro line M2 on September 18 by cutting a ribbon at Riponne-M Béjart station.
More than 60 000 people rode on the rubber-tyred metro trains on September 18 and 19. The public are able to use the line until September 22, when it closes for final adjustments before the start of commercial operations on October 27.
GERMANY: Nürnberg U-Bahn operator VAG quietly slipped its first driverless trains into passenger service on Line U3 on May 4. Authority to run Germany's first automated U-Bahn services with fare-paying passengers had been granted on April 30, and VAG lost no time in taking advantage of the ruling. Linking Maxfeld ...
BRESCIA: The Metrobus light metro will bring the benefits of automated operation to a city considered too small to justify a conventional metro
Fully-automatic metro operation looks set to be widely adopted over the next two decades, if feedback from delegates at the Metro Rail 2006 conference is anything to go by. Organised by Terrapinn in Barcelona on March 28-30, the event drew a wide mix of operators, suppliers and consultants from cities ...
