SNCF will be partnering up with rolling stock specialists Alstom and Bombardier who will each be heading up consortia for freight and passenger traffic, respectively.
French railway operator SNCF said it was planning to introduce prototypes of driverless mainline trains for passengers and freight by 2023, and include them in scheduled services in subsequent years.
”With autonomous trains, all the trains will run in a harmonised way and at the same speed,” SNCF chairman Guillaume Pepy said in a statement. “The train system will become more fluid.
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