reaperexpress
Senior Member
Via's on-time performance is currently 85%, which is the highest I've seen since the start of CN speed restrictions. Maybe freight traffic is reduced on the long weekend?
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Bordercollie
Senior Member
It's been better since they added the permanent slow orders. It's easier to predict the schedule.
All they did was reflect the actual travel time in the schedule.
micheal_can
Senior Member
My 2 cents: it is better to have a schedule that reflects the actual times the train will be there than having an idealized schedule. Doing so takes both the carrier and the user to work together to maintain it through.
Bordercollie
Senior Member
For sure. There is no point in having a theoretical schedule that they can't meet. Resulting in credits paid out. At least this way they can better predict when they will arrive at their destination.
And travelling by car is no better. Especially with these unqualified truckers on the road, it's so easy to get delayed by hours just by one accident.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
May I ask you which schedules were extended to account for the increased travel times resulting from the speed restrictions imposed by CN on the Venture fleet? I somehow struggle to identify any such changes…
Bordercollie
Senior Member
I was under the impression that that's what they did. Since you can't meet the schedule due to speed restrictions so without extending the travel time how would you increase the on time performance metrics?
micheal_can
Senior Member
We all want fast service, but why advertise a schedule that seems faster when delays will happen? For the Corridor,5 minutes late should be a bad thing. The LDRs can be late by an hour and make it up.The Corridor routes don't have that kind of luxury.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
By raising these speed restrictions and thus limiting their negative impact on travel time. Which is exactly what VIA managed to do a few weeks ago and has drastically reduced the severity of the problem…
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Trackside_Treasure
Active Member
I'm not so sure. Yes, there has been improvement with the introduction of CN's PSOs. The 'real time' or 'ahead of schedule' arrivals only pertained to the flawed, failed and forgotten direct-service pilot for four trains per day. I did not hear VIA promising improvements to Venture OTP otherwise. Yes, capturing an 85% OTP in one window of time is great!
My Monday Venture monitoring, ongoing since introduction of CN's crossing speed reduction looked like this (image):
And since then, the numbers continue to improve. The numbers don't lie. In the ensuing five weeks not yet added to the above table:
Ottawa/Toronto Ventures' OTP : 22, 29, 34, 15, 37 minutes.
Montreal/Toronto Ventures' OTP : 24, 22, 55, 30, 41 minutes.
With an important caveat. Since I'm averaging all Venture arrival times, the averages would be lower using a different methodology that did not result in an average. One or two 'bad actors' each Monday arriving 44, 55 or 88 minutes late skew the average! But I'm committed to using the same methodology going forward, for consistency.
stevensontransit
Active Member
what a
via and the cn rail show has become.smallspy
Senior Member
Historically, as the Thanksgiving long weekend is the busiest set of travel days for VIA, CN has worked extra hard with VIA to keep VIA's trains on time at the expense of CN's.
I guess that in spite of everything else going on, they are continuing with that arrangement.
Dan
crs1026
Superstar
My take is a little less generous.... ie few CN Managers work Thanksgiving, and so less oversight that would impose on RTC's to favour CN freights over VIA.
Just a theory
- Paul
DSCToronto
Superstar
Both of you could be correct. There could be less freight traffic and fewer CN Managers around and at same time CN could be giving VIA more 'rail time' than normal because they know that they have high passenger load.
Trackside_Treasure
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smallspy
Senior Member
While the RTCs have a fair amount of leeway in how they can keep their part of the system running, they also are given specific instructions on how they keep that part of the system running, and they get audited regularly on their decisions and how they are following those instructions.
Just because their managers aren't there doesn't mean they aren't watching.
Dan