And I guess congratulations to Luxembourg for covering the 105 km between Schmett and Schengen
It sure is suspicious how every top-ranking country is small and/or flat
I don’t see how either of those affects punctuality that much.
Small just means that more of your trains will be arriving from a different country, so you have to compensate for their shitty scheduling. Like I once took the train from Bulgaria to Turkey, and was told it’s usually late, because the same train had to arrive from Serbia first, and it would habitually show up two hours late. If you’re a bigger country, or not connected to anyone else by rail, you would have more of your trains fully in your own control. Switzerland is basically a rail hub for Europe, so it should be harder for them, not easier.
Flat seems mostly irrelevant, since rail has to lie mostly flat anyway. This would be an impediment to rail construction, not punctuality. Although rail construction could of course be an impediment to punctuality in that lack of tracks makes scheduling harder. Double rail is a lot easier to schedule on than sharing one set of rails for both directions, and those extra tracks are more work to add when you have to make a lot of holes in the mountains.
Do you mean flat like Switzerland?
No, small, that other thing they said.
Germany and France are fairly equal in both, but Germany is much worse here.
Germany got a very, very, very strong car maker lobby who staunchly opposes anything public transport. Funnily enough, all infrastructure is crumbling, including autobahn bridges so their precious little cars will soon not be able to go vroom anymore anyway.
Hey don’t worry, the right is working hard on tanking our (formerly) world class rail system here in France
Hey, maybe this time around we can have a Franco-German anti-fascist underground resistence movement with how things are going!
Heh. I’ve always admired the German antifas.
Germany is worse than that. For the German statistic 5 minutes and 59 seconds delayed counts as punctual, and if the train doesn’t arrive at all it is not counted. So delyed trains often skip the last station and just turn around so they can start the next trip punctual, but that doesn’t count as unpunctuality.
Also the statistic is only for single trains. So if you miss your connection because over one third of the trains is delayed by more than 6 minutes and the next train runs every hour, then that counts as being 8 minutes delayed and punctual even if the customer arrived 1 hour after their planned arrival.
Idk how it is elsewhere, but in France long distance trains are on time most of the time (as shown on the graph) but short distance ones suffer lots of problems daily. Guess which ones the working class uses the most btw ?
So using only the metric of long distance trains feels a little biased.
That being said, I’m all for train regardless of the distance, and most of these issues would be mostly fixed with more infrastructure investment.
Interesting, that’s pretty much the inverse of the US. Here the long distance Amatrak trains are often hours late because of freight companies not usually letting them by when they’re supposed to but the short distance trains like the DC Metro are pretty good
US passenger rail is a step above cartoon hobos sneaking onto boxcars.
Fun fact: Mussolini was an early proponent of sustainable and green renewable energies for transportation.
He made the trains run on thyme
Daaaaad
I would wager if you split Italy into south and rest you get two very different averages. Sadly.
Yo. Imagine being an American bus passenger. It’s hell. It’s me.
Look Mum, we‘re not last place! 🇩🇪
The bar for complaining scales with the expected punctuality, so you get a roughly constant amount of complaining regardless of punctuality. In Japan you get a written note to show your employer if the train is a few seconds late, so that’s presumably enough for them to complain.
I’ve been there yet had no idea there were trains in Slovenia.
Would be interesting to see the figures of Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Japan is not pictured because it would make the Swiss feel bad.
And because Japan isn’t in Europe
Why no western balkans?
