Every regular user of public transport in the Ile-de-France region will have noticed it: during the major days of mobilization against the pension reform, this year, only two metro lines were operating normally.
The smooth running of these axes - 1 and 14 - is no coincidence: they are the only two completely automated on the network, that is to say without a driver or any personnel on board.
At this level of automation – the fourth level, which is the highest – “
the system manages all operations, supervised remotely by a command center
”, explains the RATP.
If, for the users, automation is good news, improving the regularity and the punctuality of the subways, remains that this process is particularly long.
It can thus take years, even more than a decade…
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