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Nice article. The German rail is working on modernizing the network with the use of Artificial intelligence based dynamic timetable optimization (a major issue
by mkogul 4y ago
Nice article. The German rail is working on modernizing the network with the use of Artificial intelligence based dynamic timetable optimization (a major issue when delays occur is to dynamically readjust the timetable) and Autonomous trains. Additionally making use of 5G based communication and ETCS L3. Unfortunately, due to the mission critical nature, these changes will be slowly rolled out 2027 onwards and major changes are expected only from 2035. https://digitale-schiene-deutschland.de/en/digital-rail https://digitale-schiene-deutschland.de/en/digital-rail
- sschueller 4y agoThese are all the typical "cool tech" items sold to the manager who do not understand the problems they have are not solved by it alone. All the issues Germany has Switzerland would also suffer under if it ran it's rail network the same way. Money must go to the right places and maintenance is crucial. The Swiss network is not perfect but it doesn't have all the issues the Germans have and we have no autonomous trains, no AI dynamic time tables (not yet) and no ETCS L3 (not yet or very limited).
- rpadovani 4y agoWhile I am totally down for bashing DB, as you can see from other comments, let's also face reality: Switzerland has 1/10th of the population and 1/9th of the surface, with an entirely different population distribution. Unfortunately, lessons from small countries cannot easily be replicated in bigger countries (as for people that mention Estonia for digitalization: they are great, but there are 3 cities in Germany that have more population that the _entire_ Estonia)
- sschueller 4y agoGermany has 40k km of rail vs 5k km in Switzerland. So the difference is not that big. However for the population size it is too small of a network.