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Re:All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial sc... by yorwba on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:50PM (#46470482)
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.

Re:All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial sc... by fxwin on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:24AM (#46524301)
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.