Russian Railways plans to put a completely unmanned train into service in 2026. This was announced by the head of the holding, Oleg Belozerov, during the plenary discussion “Future transport system in the interests of passengers” as part of the “Russia” exhibition forum at VDNKh. TASS.
He also noted that a partially unmanned train at level 3 “A” will enter service at MCC this summer.
“We plan to put the completely unmanned train into service in 2026. Belozerov said that this change was due to the fact that a completely modified electric train “Finist” has now appeared and we have connected to it the necessary equipment that we have already developed.
Before that, Jan Heitzer, vice president of the National Automobile Association, stated that an unmanned mode would appear in Russia by 2033. will be transferred 30% of transportation including buses. According to him, this will help reduce the problem of public transport driver shortage.
Previously in the Moscow metro I started testing LTE network for launching unmanned trains.