Railway wants to hire tens of thousands of new employees

The web guide has explained Federal Minister of transport, Scheuer, such as the group from the crisis. Tens of thousands of new employees are to be set. On particularly busy routes are bottlenecks to a better Management reduces. the By Markus Balser, Berlin Markus Balser

Markus Balser came in 2001 to the süddeutsche Zeitung. He is a graduate of the Cologne school of journalism and a diploma in Economics and was first in the economy editorial office in Munich. In 2013, he went to Berlin and reported from there on energy and environmental issues. At the beginning of 2016, he joined the parliamentary team and takes care of to transport and agricultural policies, as well as to the Deutsche Bahn. In 2007, Balser was Nannen, together with Klaus Ott and Hans Leyendecker for the research to the Siemens bribe scandal with the Henri award. In 2008, he was a scholarship holder of the Arthur F. Burns fellowship, a guest editor of the Wall Street Journal in New York.

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At the second emergency meeting within two days, the Deutsche Bahn has presented the consequences of a package of plans for more punctuality. The state group intends to set in this year, therefore, significantly more employees than previously planned. "We hire additional personnel and expand training," - said in a white paper of the railway.

22 000 new hires are Planned this year. Compared to the previous plans, the 9,000 or more, the company said. This is particularly relevant for the operation of critical staff, such as drivers, dispatchers and maintenance personnel. In addition, the group will build the training capacity for key functions in order to 1000.

Very new in the expansion program, however, is not. In the past year, the group 24 was set, 000 employees. The Supervisory Board of the train had signaled to the Board last year, that this year, around 20 000 additional employees would be needed.

These plans have now been corrected again. However, it should be easy, on the empty, cleanly swept and the labour market in fact, so many additional Employees to recruit. To find staff, will always be heavier, believes Alexander Kirchner, Supervisory Board-Vice-head of the Deutsche Bahn. Often new forces would have to be formed. This will take in the individual shortage occupations for several years.

improvements for neuralgic nodes

the Focus I want, also, to improvements in bottleneck regions. The neuralgic nodes, you'll have to arrange the train traffic be better explained to the rail. The routes Dortmund - Köln, Würzburg - Nuremberg and the Region around Hamburg. However, this is one of the the bottlenecks according to the plans of the railway, the punctuality of 75 percent of all long-distance trains in the current year, a mere 0.6 percentage points. Overall, the punctuality of long-distance traffic in the year 2019 is expected to increase by 1.6 percentage points to 76.5 percent. Actually, 82 per cent were planned for this year.

train-in-chief Richard Lutz spoke to on the Morning of formidable challenges: the use of The network have increased since the railway Reform of 1994, by 50 percent. Year for year the group recorded passenger records. Now the train was coming to their limits. "We need more capacity to handle the traffic of today and tomorrow," said Lutz. Man

As a Problem, the Railways have identified all the maintenance. Currently time to test the trains on all the errors and eliminate the remains in the works. At key Points, such as the ICE plants in Hamburg and Cologne, the railway wool set of 200 additional employees. In the future, should be available every day, at least 225 ICE - five percent more than in the past.

Scheuer dampened after the Meeting, expectations. The punctuality of trains could not be increased quickly, from 75 to 95 percent, because there are capacity constraints. The Minister announced a Meeting with the leadership of the state-owned group's chief Executive Richard Lutz for the 30. January. Then it should go to the financing of the railway and structures of the group. "We have the political will to invest in the infrastructure," said Scheuer. The railway is deeply in debt and in need of additional billion, for the modernisation of the fleet and of the network.