Draft:Hitachi driverless set

The design of the trains were awarded by the Rolling Stock, System and Operations Maintenance (RSSOM) in November 2022. During production, the current premier of Ontario, Doug Ford is announcing the Toronto Transit Commission to build the Ontario Line, a successor to the downtown Relief line that was part of the cancelled TransitCity plan, 50 new trainsets will be produced and installed to relieve overcrowding on most stations on Line 1 Yonge-University.{{cite web | title=Ontario Line | url=https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/1001836/ontario-line | date=March 27, 2022 | publisher=Government of Ontario.ca }} The 19.6 kilometer line would connect from {{stl|TTC|Science Centre}} to Exhibition downtown west. New trains would be elevated, using the standard gauge railway like Metrolinx's Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West. During production, new station names will be announced on the rapid transit line, with providing connections with Osgoode and Queen station, the latter will be renamed to Queen-Spadina{{cite web | url=https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/ontario-line/what-were-building | title=Ontario Line - Overview | publisher=Metrolinx | date=November 22, 2022 }}. Both the trainsets will be equipped with the use of platform screen doors similar to the ones that are used on Union Pearson Express, which opened in 2015.{{cite web | url=https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2022/11/221118b.pdf | title=Hitachi Rail to deliver new Ontario Line trains, systems, maintenance and operations in $9B CAD deal | publisher=Hitachi Ltd. }}

For more information, visit Metrolinx.ca{{cite web | url=https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/ontario-line/community-meetings | title=Ontario Line - Community | date=November 22, 2022 | publisher=Metrolinx }}

The Ontario Line will be able to deliver faster, more frequent service by using modern technology that has been adopted by subway systems around the world. All trains will be driverless, and provide automatic train control (ATC) to relieve a fatal accident on underground stations and tunnels if people are walking either in unstable area or dangerous places, like the ones used in Vancouver, London, Paris and Singapore. The set will be a future project for the TTC, to provide for passengers to board modern, faster 90 kilometer speeding automatic subway trains, in accordance with operations and maintenance agreements. This train is also for people with physical disabilities. Passenger information will be added to provide passengers with communications, CCTV cameras will be installed in all canopies on each car.{{cite web | url=https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-do/projectssearch/ontario-line---rolling-stock-systems-operations-and-maintenance/ |

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The new fleet with have Maintenance and Storage Facilities, where the vehicles are stored, the Operations Control Centre where staff control train operations and are connected to TTC and GO Transit systems and the Ontario Backup Operations Control Centre. Construction to the facility began as soon as the Ontario line began construction.

Like Line 5 and Line 6, all train sets will be equipped with PRESTO fare gates when passengers enter the line through a entrance and exit, with additional service for users to provide customers to use fare cards when boarding TTC.

As part of it's easily-constructed equipment, it will provide faster, more frequent and reliable access to rapid transit, and will carry with more than 227,500 people will live within a 10-minute walk of an Ontario Line station, with cellular service provided by Rogers located on one of the cars.{{cite web | url=https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-do/projectssearch/ontario-line---rolling-stock-systems-operations-and-maintenance/ | title=Ontario Line - Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance | publisher=Metrolinx }} The trains with improve the quality of life for commuters by reducing daily travel time by 2040. These cars will be similar to the newer TR models and will be used prior to the Pan American 2028 Olympic Games. The Ontario Line will be both underground and elevated, along with the additional cost of adding automatic announcements and even a new accessibility menu. This would be the first driverless train in Toronto.

The newly designed TTC rolling stock will include features such as:

• onboard Wi-Fi; 
• digital passenger *information screens; 
• charging points; 
• dedicated spaces for bicycles; 
• double wheelchair areas; 
• continuous, connected train cars; 
• heating and cooling throughout; 
• doors that will open in sync with platform edge doors; 
• regenerative braking.

The equipment will be capable of a maximum speed of 80 kph (50 mph).{{cite web | url=https://www.cp24.com/news/a-look-at-the-driverless-trains-that-will-run-along-the-ontario-line-1.6313366?cache=776 | publisher=CP24 | title=A look at the driverless trains that will run along the Ontario Line. | date=March 14, 2023 }}

{{cite web | url=https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/ontario-line/what-were-building/trains-and-technology | title=What were building trains and technology. | publisher=Metrolinx | date=November 23, 2022 }}

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