
DMRC will use the 99.95% punctuality figure to justify further driverless expansion, and the next public benchmark will be whether the 29% automation share can rise without hurting reliability.
This is a rare public-transit story with both scale and a technology angle. The driverless share makes it more than a vanity metric: it is a signal of how far Indian urban rail automation has advanced.
AI reasoning
This is a rare public-transit story with both scale and a technology angle. The driverless share makes it more than a vanity metric: it is a signal of how far Indian urban rail automation has advanced.
Curated summary
Delhi Metro reported 99.95 percent train punctuality in 2026, the highest in its history, and said it beat systems in Hong Kong, Paris and New York. DMRC also cited a Mean Distance Between Failures of 2.72 million car-kilometers. The network now spans 416.5 km with 303 stations and 6.406 million daily passenger journeys, and 29 percent of the system runs under driverless operation, including a 71.55 km circular line.
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Delhi Metro posts near-perfect punctuality and expands driverless operations
DMRC says it hit 99.95% punctuality in 2026, with 29% of the network now under driverless operation.

















