Nico HuurmanEurope needs frequent, reliable and faster long-distance rail connections. But more importantly: smooth integration with regional and local public transport. Like #Deutschlandtakt, but on the whole continent. See my blog at #Metropa on #Metropatakt: https://www.metropa.eu/post/ladies-and-gentlemen-metropatakt
Ladies and Gentlemen: metropatakt !
Do you know what an integrated clock-face timetable is? It’s a technique to optimise networks of public transport lines. It ensures that at all important transfer nodes, trains and busses from different direction arrive simultaneously and, a few minutes later, they all depart again in different directions. In this way, passengers have short transfers times in all directions. This concept was first developed in Switzerland and this nationwide timetable under the name of ‘Bahn 2000’ has ensured op