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These 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
by sschueller 4y ago
These 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.