Istanbul Driverless (CBTC) Metro Lines
This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed below and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.
How this atlas is made · What “last verified” means · What “source-checked” means
Turkey's first metro with nobody in the cab opened in December 2017, behind platform screen doors. The newer lines the city builds are held to the same unattended standard.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Istanbul · 🚌 Public transport guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
The M5 Üsküdar–Çekmeköy line opened on 15 December 2017 as Turkey's first fully driverless (GoA4, unattended) metro, run by Metro İstanbul under the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, using CBTC signalling and platform screen doors. It has since been extended toward Sultanbeyli, reaching roughly 30 km. Istanbul has followed with further fully automatic driverless CBTC lines — the European side's M7 (from 2020) and M8 — with newer lines built to the same standard.
Sources
Continue exploring
Compare this project
Explore the wider context
📎 Cite this project
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Istanbul Driverless (CBTC) Metro Lines” — Istanbul, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/istanbul-driverless-metro/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.