Want China Times... Production of Beijing's first fully automatic subway trains has been finished, Changchun Railway Vehicles, a subsidiary of China CRRC Corporation, announced on Monday. They will be the first fully automatic trains in mainland China and are scheduled to be put into service this year.
The trains, with a top speed of 80 kilometers an hour, can carry a maximum of 1,262 passengers.
Unmanned subway trains were first introduced in Copenhagen and are used in cities including Paris, Barcelona and Nuremberg.