{"id":12681,"date":"2014-12-28T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12681"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:12:14","slug":"london-underground-set-for-fast-new-driverless-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/london-underground-set-for-fast-new-driverless-trains","title":{"rendered":"London Underground set for fast, new driverless trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/author\/chris-wood\/\" rel=\"author\">Chris Wood<\/a> \u2014 Gizmag<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today revealed the designs for the New Tube for London \u2013 a fleet of 250 trains set to go into operation in the mid-2020s. The design, which pays homage to the heritage of the Underground, brings significant improvements to the service, with the trains capable of fully automatic operation.<\/p>\n<p>The New Tube services aim to tackle the city\u2019s rising population by not only increasing capacity, but also improving speed and frequency of trains. Transport for London (TfL) worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/priestmanngoode-high-speed-train-concept\/15824\/\" target=\"_blank\">PriestmanGoode<\/a> on the new design, which is set to make significant improvements to the service while retaining the recognizable look of London Underground transportation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/new-london-underground-train-design-unveiled\/34188\/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=e0398695ad-UA-2235360-4&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_65b67362bd-e0398695ad-91667501\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Wood \u2014 Gizmag The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has today revealed the designs for the New Tube for London \u2013 a fleet of 250 trains set to go into operation in the mid-2020s. The design, which pays homage to the heritage of the Underground, brings significant improvements to the service, with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56460,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions\/56460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}