The operational velocity of Delhi Metro`s Airport Express Line can be improved from the prevailing eighty kmph to one hundred kmph beginning Wednesday, officers aware about the problem stated, including that the flow will deliver down the tour time among the New Delhi and IGI Airport stations from 19 mins via way of means of round more than one mins. “The operational velocity of Delhi Metro`s Airport Express Line is being improved to one hundred kmph. This is a chief improve from the angle of passenger comfort in this section. This will assist in in addition saving time for the passengers.” stated Anuj Dayal, major govt director, DMRC.
This is step one in sooner or later growing the operational velocity of the road to a hundred and twenty kmph, so that it will deliver down the tour time among the 2 stations to round 15 mins, officers stated. When the Airport Express Line have become purposeful in 2013, the trains to begin with operated at a velocity of fifty kmph. Since 2014, the trains on the road had been working at a pinnacle velocity of round eighty kmph, aleven though the sanctioned velocity for the road is ninety kmph.
Operationally, the trains and structures of the hall are designed for a velocity of as much as a hundred thirty five kmph. The plan to growth the velocity of the trains consists of changing the prevailing SKL 15HF clamps at the hall with SKL 15 anxiety clamps, that are higher appropriate for high-frequency educate movement, officers stated.
Once trains are capable of efficaciously run at a velocity of one hundred kmph for round one month, the following step can be to examine growing the operational velocity to one hundred ten kmph after which sooner or later to a hundred and twenty kmph, officers stated. Pre-Covid, the road averaged round 50,000-55,000 commuters a day, however after the resumption of operations submit lockdown, the common ridership has been round 45,000 a day.
Currently, trains at the hall cowl the 19.4km stretch among the 2 stations in 19 mins, which incorporates stoppages on the Shivaji Stadium Metro station, Dhaula Kuan Metro station and the Delhi Aerocity Metro station. The overall hall length, along with the Dwarka Sector-21 metro station, is 22.7km, with the full adventure from one quit to the alternative taking 24 mins.