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> It sounds like it was a crew scheduling issue. I'm not from the NL, but I have travelled there by train. My feeling is that they have very dense traffic, but
by usr1106 5y ago
> It sounds like it was a crew scheduling issue.
I'm not from the NL, but I have travelled there by train. My feeling is that they have very dense traffic, but in a relatively small country most trains don't travel more than 2 hours. That means each driver and each conductor needs to make 4 different trips a day. And because they need breaks they proably switch trains during a working day. If all this planning has been computerized for many years it just means that nobody knows what to do next if the computer screen remains blank. Probably they don't get a printout in the morning like it was some decades ago. No idea how adaptively the system would react during the day dependening on delays and disruptions.
Just guessing, maybe some insider knows more.
- rgj 5y ago20 years ago, the NS - the Dutch National Railroad company - tried to remove complication from the railroad schedule and got a lot of criticism from their employees because it would mean they would travel less far from their home stations. Train drivers said “so we will only be driving around our church”. It led to a lot of protests and eventually a lot of the plans were revoked. See https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondje_om_de_kerk https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondje_om_de_kerk (in Dutch, use Google Translate to translate to a language of your choice).