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Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by lnsru »

Deutsche Bahn is a bad joke nowadays. They even released some shorts on youtube with famous comedian Anke Engelke to laugh from themselves. But the situation is everything else than funny.

I design hardware, data science is not my thing. Is it that hard to collect all the delayed train events, categorize them. Create few groups like suicides, train breakdowns, infrastructure failures, too many passengers to close the doors, etc. And then fight the issues by groups defining oldest and possibly failing infrastructure and trains. And managing trains to squeeze everyone inside. Political failure is one thing, but some things can be solved by science.

Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by 1718627440 »

DocTomoe wrote: post #17
robertkrahn01 wrote: post #12

Can they fix schedules and reliability first please?! https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article244075801/Bah...

Being a victim (some say: customer) of the Deutsche Bahn (with bahn.comfort black status): I sincerely believe they can not. After 40 years of ignoring maintenance, never setting up the East-German rail system for success, I honestly believe the system is broken beyond repair. What is indicative of that is that they believe they can make the Deutschlandtakt work by (no typo!) 2070. We get what we have, and that's it.

There was a time when there was no railway and a time were we had a good railway. That is not out-of-reach, but it is mostly a political problem, not a technical one.

Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by pimeys »

eptcyka wrote: post #25

Can they 360-no-scope their way to a reliable timetable for their trains? 2/3 times I've had to use them, my trip was severely affected by a delay or a cancellation.

That would be nice. Just did a business trip to Amsterdam from Berlin (and back). The return train was four hours late. Neither of the trains had even a restaurant car, and the trip is about six hours per direction.

Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by mamonster »

reedf1 wrote: post #6

I will hire on the spot any candidate with 1000+ hours in factorio.

Is 1000 hours even that much for a high skill-cap game?

I must have like 5k hours at least across all Total War titles since Medieval 2 and I don't consider myself a great player at all.

Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by hobofan »

moooo99 wrote: post #19
jamil7 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no incentive for them to do so, so they won't.

Unfortunately, they realistically cannot. Basically every major infrastructure project gets loads of local opposition which would require substantial political will. However, the currently elected government is the government that let the rail infrastructure get that bad in the first place

AFAIK to fix reliability no new major infrastructure projects would be required (at least for most of the reliability offenses). They would just need to maintain/modernize existing infrastructure and rolling stock, so all things that aren't really opposable.

To achieve the Deutschlandtakt as noted in the article, yes new infrastructure projects are required, but I think most people would be happy with all the existing service running as well as it has ~15-20 years ago.

Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by hansmayer »

lnsru wrote: post #21

Deutsche Bahn is a bad joke nowadays. They even released some shorts on youtube with famous comedian Anke Engelke to laugh from themselves. But the situation is everything else than funny. I design hardware, data science is not my thing. Is it that hard to collect all the delayed train events, categorize them. Create few groups like suicides, train breakdowns, infrastructure failures, too many passengers to close the…

Well that thing is hard and requires an actual expertise. However if you throw around some serious money to bring over senior managers into a room to make fools of themselves by jumping in front of the top-level management + the new age coach, yelling "Ka mate, Ka mate, Pünktlichkeit und Verlass! Hiiii!", appropriating the native New Zealand culture along the way, you will instill "inspiring energy" that the senior managers will now "carry into their teams" consisting mostly of agile change managers, agile project managers, agile... whatever and magically, the trains will become more punctual. No need for that silly data science stuff obviously :)

Re: Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)

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Post by hobofan »

lnsru wrote: post #21

Deutsche Bahn is a bad joke nowadays. They even released some shorts on youtube with famous comedian Anke Engelke to laugh from themselves. But the situation is everything else than funny. I design hardware, data science is not my thing. Is it that hard to collect all the delayed train events, categorize them. Create few groups like suicides, train breakdowns, infrastructure failures, too many passengers to close the…

There is no mystery of what's the cause here. That is widely known and reported.

It's lack of maintenance / modernization on the rail lines. This is 100% a political failure. If the money would be allocated towards that, the problem could be fixed in a few (IIRC 5-10) years.

Of course in addition towards that there is the additional political failure of wrong incentives which creates mechanisms like the "Pofalla-Wende" (delayed trains turning around mid-journey, so that the back journey doesn't count as delay) to game the bad statistics.

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