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FlixTrain criticises Deutschlandtakt: ‘nobody wants a twenty-minute train’ | RailTech.com
Aside from the useful news about added routes, this has the clearest description that I've seen of the flix philosophy (phlix filosophy?) of service planning. In brief, Deutschlandtakt is the program of setting the German passenger service onto a timed-transfer-focal point basis. This has been done on a national basis in the Netherlands and Switzerland, for example, as discussed here before. It includes making capital investments prioritized on making good connections. Germany has been slower in accomplishing this, partly due to the backlog of infrastructure work in the former Deutsche Reichsbahn territory.
Flix and other open-access railways have struggled to get schedule paths on the rail network and one issue has been that to get the benefits of timed transfers it requires keeping slots uncompromised.
Flixbus in the U.S. demonstrates their focus on through service between a few major points. Unlike Greyhound, which sacrificed local travel convenience for network integration, the few long-distance connections of Flixbus are coincidental. (Test El Paso to San Francisco.) Getting a through train at the perfect endpoint times between major cities (Flix) across a frequent network of trains trying to make connections (DB) leads to controversies.
For English readers: The “Deutschlandtakt” – lars' transport maps (wordpress.com)
FlixTrain criticises Deutschlandtakt: ‘nobody wants a twenty-minute train’ | RailTech.com
Aside from the useful news about added routes, this has the clearest description that I've seen of the flix philosophy (phlix filosophy?) of service planning. In brief, Deutschlandtakt is the program of setting the German passenger service onto a timed-transfer-focal point basis. This has been done on a national basis in the Netherlands and Switzerland, for example, as discussed here before. It includes making capital investments prioritized on making good connections. Germany has been slower in accomplishing this, partly due to the backlog of infrastructure work in the former Deutsche Reichsbahn territory.
Flix and other open-access railways have struggled to get schedule paths on the rail network and one issue has been that to get the benefits of timed transfers it requires keeping slots uncompromised.
Flixbus in the U.S. demonstrates their focus on through service between a few major points. Unlike Greyhound, which sacrificed local travel convenience for network integration, the few long-distance connections of Flixbus are coincidental. (Test El Paso to San Francisco.) Getting a through train at the perfect endpoint times between major cities (Flix) across a frequent network of trains trying to make connections (DB) leads to controversies.
For English readers: The “Deutschlandtakt” – lars' transport maps (wordpress.com)
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