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Freight railroads generally have operated the same way for more than a century: They wait for cargo and leave when customers are ready. Now railroads want to run more like commercial airlines, where departure times are set. Factories, farms, mines or mills need to be ready or miss their trips.
Called "precision-scheduled railroading," or PSR, this new concept is cascading through the industry. Under pressure from Wall Street to improve performance, Norfolk Southern and other large U.S. freight carriers, including Union Pacific Corp. and Kansas City Southern, are trying to revamp their networks to use fewer trains and hold them to tighter schedules. The moves have sparked a stock rally that has added tens of billions of dollars to railroad values in the past six months as investors anticipate lower costs and higher profits.
Calling all Railroad Tycoons...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:45AM (2 children)
I'm going to have to side with the DOT guy on this one. Jeff Speck -- who's a city planning engineer -- covers this topic in his book, The walkable city.
The gist of it is that there is overwhelming empirical evidence to support the idea that people drive safer in unstructured, hazardous environments, i.e. less accidents.
Your common sense may tell you otherwise, but common sense isn't common, and the real world can be counter intuitive.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:50AM (1 child)
It makes perfect sense to me, especially if you consider inattentive driving to be a big factor in crashes. More difficult driving conditions would force people to pay more attention. But it could overwhelm some people.
I have more thoughts but sadly SN is becoming a troll site and I'm tired of being trolled. I hope admins start noticing and remember why they started SN in the first place.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @07:05PM
Being a self important jackass is your problem. I went through this whole thread and no one trolled you. Maybe you're just too sensitive, and as for "why they stsrted SN" you just outed yourself as totally clueless.