Running the Dubai Metro

Running the Dubai Metro. Gulf News takes an exclusive tour of the Dubai Metro Operations Room. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The driverless system provides you so many features. First of all, it does not need human

00:16intervention which provides higher safety than human because human tend to make mistakes

00:20in reality and these systems are completely computerized system that monitors itself all

00:24the time 24 hours a day and second by second so the safety is much higher in driverless

00:30system. Second thing is because again human actually tend to make a little bit delay here

00:35and there it's more punctual to have a driverless system the punctuality between trains is much

00:39better the automatic regulation and the recovery of any delays is much much better in driverless

00:44systems so overall performance is always better in driverless systems. The system of course you

00:50start with the timetable so you want to run in reality eight minutes headway between trains so

00:56that prevails in reality how the train service will work. Based on that you put a timetable

01:01and you program that timetable into the automatic train control system the ATC.

01:07From there the ATC will take care of the complete running of the system make sure that

01:12the time between train is always eight minutes and make sure that trains are stopping at station

01:16on the set and programmed the dual time so all that is completely done by the train

01:23system itself which is here we call it a Celtrac S90 software system here

01:29where it controls the complete operation of the metro.