Nein, die SBB ist nicht die zweitbeste Bahngesellschaft Europas, sondern die 11. Die von der ONG „Transport&Environnement“ durchgeführte Studie hatte fälschlicherweise die von der SBB standardmäßig angegebenen Preise mit dem Halbtax-Abo verwendet. Dies ist wichtig, da der Ticketpreis 25 % der Gesamtbewertung ausmacht.
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/pricey-tickets-poor-service-rail-ranking-exposes-the-best-and-worst-in-europe
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Now it is behind SNCF, the Spanish, Swedish and Austrians railways
Rather expensive and actually reliable than cheap and unusable. E.g. you cannot use DB to commute at all. It’s not reliable.
Who care about a random ranking from a random ONG.
What a stupid ranking. SBB is the 2nd best and most reliable public transport system in the whole world. Of course it will be more expensive. If you want cheap, go to Kenia.
This study kind of highlights how hard it is to perform such studies. Their scores are partially based on odd metrics and price accounting for 40% of the score while reliability only counts towards 15% is a very questionable decision. Also they didn’t include frequency and coverage, which, in my opinion, are some quite critical aspects of railways.
To be fair, does anyone who isn’t a tourist ride the train without Halbtax or a GA? Halbtax pays for itself after two longer distance rides.
This is a very stupid ranking. So ticket prices indicate how good it is? Lmao…
I wonder why you don’t need a car? Simple, because it’s one of the best in the world. Same as Japan probably is the best. It works almost flawlessly and 95% on time if not 99%.
> Ticket prices (25%), Special fares and reductions (15%), Reliability (15%), Booking experience (15%), Compensation policies (10%), Traveller experience (10%), Night train development and cycling policies (5% each)
So, price is 40% of the ranking (including special fares because that’s a subcategory basically). Switzerland is expensive, so the pricing score will heavily depend on if the methodology compensates for things like higher costs (which it doesn’t seem to do according to the “price does not guarantee quality graph”, but it’s never explained). Add to that, everybody who regularly uses public transport in Switzerland has a Halbtax. It pays for itself incredibly quickly. Imo the original price is only relevant for tourists and people who use the car almost always (which makes switching to the train gradually have a hard hurdle, but that’s besides the point). Therefore, it’s not entirely fair to use either price imo.
What I care about are reliability, how good the connections are both in places and timing (not rated) and how the experience is. Imo this rating is a nice suggestion and a good reminder to talk about public transport, that’s about it. It’s not the be-all-end-all and the SBB isn’t actually the 11th or 2nd best operator just because someone said so.
If price is 40% if the total ranking, Switzerland also has the worst restaurants and hair dressers
This ranking is worthless. High prices are good, not bad.
They should take into account the process people actually pay for the service. If majority of the users pay only half the price, then that should be taken into account. SBB can certainly provide the numbers of the average cost per kilometer or whatever metric they are using but averaged across the population that uses the service.
I’ll take the downvotes for this. But it is insufferable.
Study says Switzerland is #1?
Of course! We are because we are the best.
Study says Switzerland is #2 – last.
The study was flawed because obviously……blah blah.
(sigh)
Go on. Discredit me, I’ve seen it so many times here.