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 operator ...

The concept is part of the WMATA's rail modernization plan for the DMV trains. The new platform doors will be used used for ...

The after-action report from the D.C. Metro’s safety watchdog describes a train acting a lot like its operator — drunk, tired, confused. Early on the morning of Sept. 10, an Orange Line train ...

Metro’s Red Line trains will drive themselves starting in December, and the self-driving trains will be used across the rail system by spring 2025, according to a Metro document released ahead of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Thursday the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board took the next steps toward full automation on Metro trains.

Metro-North Hudson Line trains will stop at the Yankees-E. 153 St. station, across from the stadium, and several Hudson Line trains will make an extra stop there, a Metropolitan Transportation ...

Public transport has come a long way from old time steam engine trains, with rapid transits, or metros, being commonplace in most large cities. But from the beginning, most trains relied on steel ...