In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
consumer Deutsche Bahn wants to expand on-demand services in rural areas The Deutsche Bahn logo at Hanover Central Station: In the future, the company wants to offer people in rural areas alternatives to their own car. photo © Moritz Frankenberg/dpa Use on-call buses or shuttle services in regional transport. In this way, Deutsche Bahn intends to offer more suitable transport services for people in rural areas as an alternative to their own car. Deutsche Bahn wants to bring so-called on-demand...
The mask requirement in long-distance public transport should already fall on February 2nd. This was announced by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD). "We simply have to rely more on personal responsibility and voluntariness," said Lauterbach, justifying the premature end with the high level of immunization in the population: "The pandemic situation has stabilized."At the same time, more and more countries want to drop the mask requirement in local transport. North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Bremen announced this...
Deutsche Bahn, as the operator of the Munich S-Bahn, defends the timetables on the east branch of the S 7. Representatives of the S 7 East-plus initiative and Aying's mayor Peter Wagner (CSU) had criticized the fact that many of the additional trains used between Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and Aying run every 20 minutes, do not stop at the stations in the Aying districts of Dürrnhaar and Peiß. According to a railway spokesman, this is mainly due to "infrastructural reasons" that are...
Find a seat quickly Deutsche Bahn introduces occupancy displays on platforms A capacity display at the Berliner Tor S-Bahn station in Hamburg. Deutsche Bahn plans to equip a third of its regional trains with the technology by the end of 2024. © Marcus Brandt / DPA You can see at first glance in which wagon there is still space: Deutsche Bahn is introducing so-called "occupancy displays" on platforms. The pilot project is initially running in Hamburg and Stuttgart. With special...
With these words, Deutsche Bahn is leaning pretty far out the window!"We make the everyday life of our passengers noticeably better." This should happen with a seat revolution. In the technical jargon of the state-owned company, this means: Intelligent real-time utilization displays.Sounds complicated, but it is a useful invention. And it works like this: Sensors scan how many passengers have entered and exited the car. The display on the track and in the app converts this information into a traffic...
In Deutsche Bahn long-distance transport, more trains were late in 2022 than they have been in more than ten years. The punctuality rate was 65.2 percent in the past twelve months, as the group announced on Monday. For comparison: In 2021, 75.2 percent of all long-distance trains reached their destination on time, in the first Corona year 2020 even almost 82 percent. "The outdated and scarce infrastructure, intensive construction activity and, from the second quarter, a rapidly growing volume of...
Status: 06.01.2023 1:04 p.m According to the "Spiegel", Deutsche Bahn has problems manning its signal boxes. In order to counteract the shortage of staff, the group wants to hire 25,000 new employees this year. Staff shortages and sick leave at Deutsche Bahn have led to mass delays and train cancellations in recent weeks and months. According to a newspaper report, there were delays of 375,000 minutes from January to October alone because the train lacked pointers. In the summer there...
Despite the often criticized lack of punctuality this year, Deutsche Bahn reports a passenger record for the Christmas season. The number of passengers on long-distance trains doubled to around 3.2 million in the booking period from December 22nd to 28th in 2022, after 1.6 million in 2021. This means that the previous peak value from the pre-Corona year 2019 was 2.8 million Travelers - significantly exceeded. source site
