36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation

Why HN readers recommended it

HN brings it up in any thread about German or European rail as a data-driven, entertaining analysis of why trains are late.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

media.ccc.de

Topic

german railway punctuality

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• There was this really great talk on the Chaos Communication Congress some time back on the punctuality of German trains. I searched for it and even found the English voice over translation [1]. [1]: [VIDEO]

• Obligatory mention of a great talk on the topic: "David Kriesel: BahnMining -- Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier" (2019) English translation: [VIDEO] Edit: Note: And that was still with better numbers than lmm posted.

• The was a CCC talk about why the Deutsche Bahn has so many delays: [1]. It turns out that East Germany has great on-time performance, probably because all the infrastructure is new. But overall, Germany has to invest more in upkeep of its existing infrastructure. …