Photos of Delhi Metro's Pink Line driverless train

Commuters travel in a special driverless train on the Delhi Metro Pink Line after the virtual flagging off ceremony, in New Delhi. (PTI photo)

According to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, it now has the world’s fourth-largest automated train network with 97km in the driverless system.

With the addition of the Pink Line, DMRC’s driverless network is now ahead of other automated mass transit networks in the world like the Vancouver SkyTrain (79.6km) and Dubai Metro (89.6km).

Inside view of a driverless metro train running on its track during the inauguration. (PTI photo)

The train operations were launched on Delhi Metro’s 59-km-long Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) on Thursday by Union urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi transport minister Kailash Gahlot.

The special driverless train runs on the Delhi Metro's Pink Line

Anuj Dayal, executive director (corporate communications), DMRC, said that when the Phase IV additions are done, Delhi Metro would be the world’s second-largest driverless metro network with 160km of DTO-equipped corridors.

Delhi Metro’s driverless network is marginally shorter than that of Kuala Lumpur’s Rapid KL system (97.4km).

The Union minister said that DMRC had established yet another proud moment in the country’s journey towards affordable, inclusive and sustainable public transportation.