中國首條無人駕駛地鐵燕房線開啓動車調試
China's first fully-automatic subway, Yanfang Line linking Hebei's Yanjiao and Fangshan district in Beijing, will go on trial in December and is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2017.
中國的第一條全自動無人駕駛地鐵線--連接河北省燕郊和北京房山區的燕房線，將在今年12月調試，並有望於2017年底正式運行。In the fully-automatic subway system, trains will automatically run and stop, open and shut doors, and return back to its terminal station without any drivers or steward members, said Wang Daomin, head of the Beijing MTR Construction Administration Corporation, which is in charge of the city's subway development.
負責地鐵建設工作的北京地鐵建設管理公司負責人王道民表示，運用全自動地鐵系統，在沒有司機和乘務員等人工干預的情況下，這條列車將自動發車離站、到站精準停車、自動開閉車門、自動返回到終點。Thus, trains will run accurately based on the timetable without any delays. Even when there is a problem, the system can repair itself automatically. The equipment fault period will also be prolonged to 4,500 hours, compared to 3,000 hours for the common trains.
因此，列車將按照時刻表精準運行，不會會任何延誤，即使出現故障，它也可以自動修復。相比普通列車的3000小時，其設備故障期也將延長至4500小時。
Apart from the Yanfang Line, Beijing's subway line 3, line 12, line 17 and the new airportline will also use this system. By 2020, the municipality will have up to 300 kilometers of fully-automatic rail transit lines. Nationwide, the fully-automatic system will cover 1,000kilometers.
除了燕房線，北京地鐵3號線，12號線，17號線和新機場專線也將使用該系統。到2020年，北京市全自動駕駛地鐵線將覆蓋長達300公里的距離。而在全國範圍內，該系統將覆蓋長達1000公里的路線。The world's first fully-automatic subway debuted in 1998 in Paris. Though Beijing built its first fully-automatic subway line 10 years ago by purchasing the system techniques from abroad, the new Yanfang line is China's very first rail transit line using self-developed techniques.
1998年，世界上第一條全自動無人駕駛地鐵線在巴黎投入運營。儘管早在10年前，北京就已經從國外購買了相關技術建造了第一條全自動地鐵線，但這條燕房線還是中國首次以自己的技術修建的全自主地鐵線路。China's CRRC Corporation Limited, the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment,completed the construction of fully-automatic subway trains in 2015. The trains can reach a maximum speed of 80 kilometers per hour and can carry over 1,200 passengers.
世界最大的軌道交通設備供應商——中國中車股份有限公司在2015完成了全自動地鐵建設。據悉，該列車最高運行時速爲80千米每小時，最大載客量超過了1200人。
