During the corona pandemic, many companies have to restrict themselves significantly.
Deutsche Bahn is also stepping down - but this also has a positive effect.
Deutsche Bahn passengers have often had to be patient in recent years.
Often the trains arrived late at the station.
But now the company is reporting a success.
Berlin - Fewer
passengers
, shorter
waiting times
:
Deutsche Bahn (DB)
was more
punctual
in Corona year 2020
than it has been in 15 years
.
A total of 81.8 percent of all
ICE
and
IC / EC trains
were on the way according to plan, the railway announced on Sunday in Berlin.
That is almost six percentage points more than in the previous year with 75.9 percent.
The
railway has also
caught up in terms
of
punctuality
in
regional transport
.
95.6 percent of the DB Regio trains reached their
stations
on
schedule
.
Deutsche Bahn considers a
train to
be on time if it arrives less than six minutes after the scheduled time.
Deutsche Bahn: Corona pandemic relieves the route network - trains are more punctual
About half of the punctuality plus is due to the
restrictions caused by the corona pandemic
.
Fewer passengers
reduced the stopping times
at the stations.
At times, slightly fewer trains were in use, including in
freight traffic
.
As a result, the
route network
was less stressed, especially at the rail nodes.
According to Deutsche Bahn, the
“Strong Rail”
strategy program
, with which the Group has been working on punctuality since 2019, has also had an impact.
With more than 1000 construction sites per day at times, the number of
delays
due to this work has fallen by five percent.
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The
damage caused
by the
weather is also
continuing to decline.
Because more and more new trains are on the move in long-distance traffic, the
average age of
the fleet and thus the
risk of breakdowns is falling
.
By 2026, Deutsche Bahn intends to
invest
around 8.5 billion euros in
modernizing
its long-distance fleet alone.
The
company
receives
a new ICE 4
every three weeks
. More than 50 ICE 4s are already in use.
In addition, DB Fernverkehr put nine
new double-decker IC trains
into operation
last year
.
(dpa)
