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<p>[quote user="charlie hebdo"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Electroliner 1935</div> <div class="quote-content"> <div>From: <span style="font-size:12pt;"><a><strong><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#666666;text-decoration:none;">international passenger news</span></strong></a></span></div> ............................<br style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#222222;" /> <div><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype';color:#444444;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">“Prorail will also introduce <strong>scheduling in tenths of a minute, with six second increments</strong>, for internal timetables. Prorail believes this system will improve punctuality, and expects to introduce the change in 2020.</span>”</div> <div class="quote-footer"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype';color:#444444;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> </span><span style="color:#444444;font-family:'Palatino Linotype';">Can you imagine this in the </span>US<span style="color:#444444;font-family:'Palatino Linotype';"> (or </span>Canada<span style="color:#444444;font-family:'Palatino Linotype';">)</span></div> </div> </blockquote> <p>Volker would be a better source than I, but I recall Juniata (before she got bullied off the forum) once observed that German freight trains ran faster and on reliable schedules more than here because industries served subscribed to the just-in-time concept for inventories. </p> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>There is a DB Cargo online schedule: <a href="http://gueterfahrplan.hacon.de/bin/db/query.exe/en?OK">http://gueterfahrplan.hacon.de/bin/db/query.exe/en?OK</a></p> <p>Insert e.g. Hamburg and Muenchen (Munich) and click "Find Connection" and watch what happens. Under NOTES you find the following:<br /><br /><em><span style="font-weight:bold;">Departure/arrival:</span> The precise provision times at the forwarding or destination siding will be agreed in liaison with your customer consultant. The train timings listed do not constitute a quality commitment but merely indicate the transport options that can be scheduled subject to availability.</em></p> <p>On the other hand the on-time performance of DB Cargo in Germany is 73%. A DB Cargo train is on-time as long as it doesn't arrive more than 16 minutes later than scheduled.</p> <p>The Federal Government answered a request for DB delays in parliament. According to this answer the average delay of DB Cargo freight trains is about 50 minutes. For single trains that can mean days.</p> <p>So I think German freight trains have a better on-time performance than American freight trains. With 75 mph they are faster.</p> <p>For me Prorail's Time Table Redesign (TTR) tool projected to Germany would be overkill, even for passenger trains. A few more passengers (e.g. school class) boarding at a station and you are minutes late. The system might be a better way to find out what is going wrong but wouldn't add capacity as long as the trains are this late.<br />Regards, Volker</p>
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