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thats great, but they are on time 85% of the time vs long distance trains' 62% https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen_fakten/puenktlichke

• yorwba 9mo ago
  If you take a train to work five days a week and it's "on time" (not delayed by 6 minutes or more) 85% of the time, you'll be late on at least one day most weeks. Hardly very punctual. Personally, I think they should just abandon timetables, run trains as fast as they can, and if you need to be somewhere by a certain time, you give the planner a target reliability and it uses a probabilistic model of the entire system to tell you when to leave so you can arrive on time (0 minutes delay, or earlier) with that given probability.
  • fxwin 9mo ago
    true, the actual word used is less important to me than the distinction between long distance trains and regional trains, since those get conflated quite a bit in this discussion.