Just six months after the return of automated Metro trains to D.C., the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ...

Train coupling systems have come a long way, evolving from the manual methods used in the early days of rail travel to the ...

Metro has announced that it will expand automated train service to the Blue, Orange and Silver Lines on Sunday, achieving ...

Expanded DC Metrorail operations using Automatic Train Operation have gone smoothly, but the Washington Metrorail Safety ...

WASHINGTON — The future of Metro is automatic. WMATA is working to restore automatic train operation (ATO) throughout the Metro system, and it’s nearly ready. Metro announced just a few months ...

“Going into automatic mode will regulate the speed of the train automatically so the operator can pay attention to conditions ahead of them,” said Tiffani Jenkins, the senior vice president of ...

One details how two trains came within 400 feet of a head-on collision, and another could delay automatic train operation from moving beyond the Red Line. Safety investigators said a communication ...

WASHINGTON — Members of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission say Green and Yellow line trains have been running smoothly on automatic train operation (ATO), but more studies are needed ...

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 ...

The transit agency said it wants to return to using Automatic Train Operation (ATO), which is essentially an autopilot feature, by the end of this month on the Red Line and by next summer for all ...

“It is much safer to run in automatic train operation than what we’re running today,” Metro general manager Randy Clarke told 7News after a board of directors meeting. “Do we run a safe ...

All Aboard the Automatic For the first time in 14 years, Metro’s Automatic Train Operations system will be turned back on. Officials expect the system to be set up on all lines by December and ...