Delhi Metro. (File photo)
In an interview with PTI, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director Vikas Kumar said the metro has always kept pace with technological innovations and they are always following that.
The DMRC is planning to employ the use of artificial intelligence in its Phase-4 project for crowd management and maintenance of trains in order to increase efficiency, officials said.
In an interview with PTI, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director Vikas Kumar said the metro has always kept pace with technological innovations and they are always following that.
“The technology has been quite disruptive like it immediately changes the complete scenario and so fast the technology is evolving, we also, like driverless metro is a product of that only, and if you take this as corollary, what future it holds that is immense because driverless is one stage where you do not require crew or crew scheduling, only at the click of the button, you can start the train and it will move,” Kumar told PTI.
“What happens now, supposing somewhere sudden demand is there, sudden rush has come and you have planned it for that earlier? With the driverless train, you can immediately induct a train. Otherwise to induct a train with the driver you need to arrange for a driver first,” he added.
“At the same time, if the crowd is not there, it can be optimised. The metro can have variable composition trains in phase-4 projects like three-coach and six-coach compositions. The composition of trains can be changed. When there is less demand, the six-coach train would be split into three-coach trains,” Kumar said.
Other activities are like monitoring through CCTV cameras and facial recognition is also there. Crowd control through the camera and other technology would also be there in future definitely and they are working on that, Kumar further stated.
The DMRC MD said technology with AI will give proper optimised results.
DMRC’s Principal Executive Director Anuj Dayal said the Delhi Metro is exploring the possibility of running trains with different coach combinations depending on the traffic on that corridor in Phase-4.
“This will help in optimising the capacities according to requirements. All these trains will be compatible with driverless operations like the Magenta and Pink lines of the presently operational network. A total of 312 coaches are being procured as part of Delhi Metro’s Phase-4 requirements,” Dayal said.
Speaking about the revenue of the DMRC, the MD stated that they incurred losses for two years during the Covid, but now they have come out of that and operational profit is there.
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