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Hitachi Rail Italy Driverless Metro
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Hitachi Rail Italy· from 2002· automated electric trainset
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Metrotrain: Gadgetbox at English Wikipedia· Public domain
- 2. Danishmetrotrain: Gadgetbox at English Wikipedia· Public domain
- 3. Taipei Metro C610: Department of Rapid Transit Systems, New Taipei City Government· Public domain
- 4. New Taipei Metro Sanying Line EMU: 新北市政府· Attribution
what is it?
The Hitachi Rail Italy Driverless Metro is a class of driverless electric multiple units and corresponding signaling system. Manufactured by Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly AnsaldoBreda) and Hitachi Rail STS (former name Ansaldo STS) in Italy, it is or will be used on the Copenhagen Metro, a people mover at Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, the Brescia Metro, the Thessaloniki Metro, lines 4 and 5 of the Milan Metro, Line C of the Rome Metro, Skyline in Honolulu, and the Circular line of the New Taipei Metro. The first system to use this class of driverless electric multiple units was the Copenhagen Metro which was opened in 2002.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 24 years ago, in 2002.
- Still in service after 24 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 2002
- in service from
- 2002
- status
- in service
- number built
- 255
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Hitachi Rail Italy
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- formation
- 2–6 cars
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q2408053, Wikipedia: Hitachi Rail Italy Driverless Metro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.