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Punctuality of rail services in the first half of 2016

27.10.2016

Statistics on the punctuality of rail services in the first half of 2016 have been published on UTK website.

91,7% of passenger trains in the 2nd quarter of 2016 arrived on time at their destination. Trains arriving within 5 minutes after schedule are also qualified as punctual. This constitutes a drop in comparison to the relevant period of 2015 when 93,3% of trains were punctual.

The average delay of trains (not counting delays within 5 minutes) fell in both quarters of 2016 in comparison to 2015. The number of launched trains rose significantly from 769,2 thousand in the first half of 2015 to 845 thousand in the relative period of 2016. The number of cancelled trains rose from 881 to 1144.

UTK also started publishing data on punctuality on 10 stations selected by the Passenger Rights Department.

Punctuality of passenger services can be found here.

As far as punctuality of freight trains is concerned, 43,2% of freight trains in the 2nd quarter of 2016 arrived on time, which constitutes a rise from 39,3% in the respective period of 2015. The average delays of trains fell in the first quarter from 418 minutes to 412 minutes and from 466 minutes to 427 minutes in the 2nd quarter of 2016. The number of launched trains fell from 213 225 in the first half of 2015 to 206 491 in the first half of 2016.  The number of cancelled trains fell significantly from 9 111 to 6 373.

Freight trains delayed by more than two hours constitute the biggest share in all delayed trains, however this share fell from above 41% to less than 40% of all launched trains.

Punctuality of freight services can be found here.

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