The Paris RER A with GoA2, which is what is being rolled out in Sydney, is not driverless. That's GoA4, which is the level of automation for Sydney Metro. The contracts awarded by the State government to Siemens for the GoA2 upgrade to the existing network clearly states that frequencies will be increased to 24tph on the busiest lines, with provision to operate at 30tph to recover from disruptive incidents. It also states that journey times will be reduced because of the closer headways which can be safely operated with the digital signalling and ATO upgrade. How can you say that the journey times for Sydney Metro will be way quicker than an upgraded Sydney Trains network? You have no evidence for that. I suspect that the journey time difference between the upgraded existing network and metro will be minimal. Remember that the new metro line through the CBD will take pressure off the existing CBD stations, reducing congestion and dwell times, as it would if the new cross harbour link had been an extension of the existing network.tonyp wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 12:40 pmQuickly off the top of my head, there's Paris RER A which was converted to GoA2 in 1989 and there's some further technology upgrade supposed to be coming this decade. Indeed, the Sydney suburban journey times are not far behind those of RER A, which suggests that automation/resignalling won't achieve a lot on that front, only frequency. Sydney metro journey times are way quicker than those of both our suburbans and RER A.Transtopic wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:08 am I'm still waiting to hear about other legacy rail networks or lines being successfully converted to driverless metro operation.
Care to nominate any other legacy rail systems that are being converted to driverless metro (GoA4)?