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First completely driverless metro line in Latin America. [8] Line 5 (Lilac) 12 March 2017: Bombardier CITYFLO 650 [g] Line 15 (Silver) 30 August 2014: Bombardier CITYFLO 650: Canada: LINK Train: 6 July 2006: DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car: SkyTrain (Vancouver) Expo Line: 11 December 1985: SelTrac: The longest driverless network in the Americas, at 79 ...
The Rio Tinto Mining Company in Western Australia runs the world's largest network of driverless trains, with 1,700 km (1,100 mi) of freight railways run by an increasing number of completely unattended trains.
A decades long $1.7B project to automate the over two hundred Rio Tinto locomotives used to haul Pilbara Iron ore was completed in 2020. "AutoHaul" is the world's first autonomous trains network reaching operational status, and is self-characterized as "the world's largest robot".
"Riotinto - Inauguration of the railway from the mines to the port of Huelva" - La Ilustración Española y Americana. August 15, 1875. Río Tinto-Estación, in 1892.. The Riotinto railway was officially inaugurated on July 28, 1875, [15] [16] and started operations by early August of the same year.
In June 2010, the Australian Competition Tribunal ruled that FMG be granted access to Rio Tinto's Robe River line and BHP's Billiton's Goldsworthy line but not to the busier Hamersley and Mount Newman lines. [7] [8] Treasurer Wayne Swan suggested that several advantages would accrue from access to the rail lines by third parties. It would ...
Automatic train operation (ATO) is a method of operating trains automatically where the driver is not required or required for supervision at most. [1] Alternatively, ATO can be defined as a subsystem within the automatic train control, which performs any or all of functions like programmed stopping, speed adjusting, door operation, and similar otherwise assigned to the train operator.
The first railway services were started in 1994 by the Río Tinto Foundation, using historical rolling stock. The tourist train is part of the Rio Tinto Mining Park, [1] constituting one of its most attractive elements. The total distance covered by the tourist train is about 22 kilometers, [2] including the round trip.
This is a list of current semi-automatic train systems capable of GoA2 as according to the Grade of Automation classifications specified by the standard IEC 62290‐1. These are explained diagrammatically by the UITP. For the systems capable of GoA3 and higher, see the list of driverless train systems.