Systra has been awarded the contract to develop the first automated metro line in Stockholm, the Yellow Line. The new line will be the sixth in Stockholm's metro network and will connect Älvsjö and Fridhemsplan via a fully underground line with six stations, which is expected to carry up to 75,000 passengers a day by 2050. As part of the contract, Systra will support FUT, the agency responsible for the metro extension in Stockholm, with the implementation of all system components over a period of nine years. The line will be Sweden's first driverless metro line equipped with Grade of Automation 4 (GoA4) and will include platform screen doors for increased safety. Shorter metros with a higher frequency are supposed to increase efficiency. For Systra, this contract represents its first major metro project in Stockholm and its first full-scale systems project management assignment in Sweden.
