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Delhi Metro posts near-perfect punctuality and expands driverless operations
Technology·Medium term·▼ -1%

DMRC will use the 99.95% punctuality figure to justify further driverless expansion, and the next public benchmark will be whether the 29% automation share can rise without hurting reliability.

This is a rare public-transit story with both scale and a technology angle. The driverless share makes it more than a vanity metric: it is a signal of how far Indian urban rail automation has advanced.

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This is a rare public-transit story with both scale and a technology angle. The driverless share makes it more than a vanity metric: it is a signal of how far Indian urban rail automation has advanced.

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Delhi Metro reported 99.95 percent train punctuality in 2026, the highest in its history, and said it beat systems in Hong Kong, Paris and New York. DMRC also cited a Mean Distance Between Failures of 2.72 million car-kilometers. The network now spans 416.5 km with 303 stations and 6.406 million daily passenger journeys, and 29 percent of the system runs under driverless operation, including a 71.55 km circular line.

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Delhi Metro posts near-perfect punctuality and expands driverless operations

DMRC says it hit 99.95% punctuality in 2026, with 29% of the network now under driverless operation.

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