Go and compare
Railfuture’s role is to campaign for a bigger, better railway in Britain. We want to equip our members and Branches with the strong arguments based on best practice worldwide. Many of our members travel abroad for business or leisure so the aim here is to capture impressions of systems in other countries from the viewpoint of a user, possibly unused to the system or the language. We are not looking for technical descriptions as there is much available information on this in the technical press.
We want your impressions as a Railfuture member of using other systems particularly in areas where we see the job as not done in Britain. Areas of interest, where where we can quote international best practice to stimulate improvements here, include: information and wayfinding, ticketing and fares (ie ease of use).
Also of specific interest to help our campaigning here, where there is so much more to be done in Britain, please keep a look out for how other operators are tackling disability access and how rail and light rail is part of a transport system - i.e. integration and city transport systems.
So on your next trip, please use your camera or phone or tablet, take pictures of good and bad practice (max 10Mb) and send your impressions to feedback at railfuture.org.uk. Our aim is to build up a knowledge bank here so we can refer to it to strengthen our arguments during our campaigning by being able to quote worldwide best practice.
In May 2016 we published our first Go and Compare glossy leaflet. It focused on Passenger Priorities - view or download it. 860Kb
In April 2016 the Transport Committee at Westminster announced that it would be holding a Parliamentary Inquiry into improving the Passenger Experience on Britain's railway. The scope looked at the information provided to passengers before, during and after journeys, ticketing, on-train facilities, performance measures and mechanisms to hold operators accountable. Railfuture has produced a photo-presentation on issues affecting the Passenger Experience and has used its research on railway International Best Practice. The slides can be viewed or downloaded (3.5MB)
Click on the headings, photos or 'Read More' link below to see more detail on each topic. Registered users may add their own comments to each article - email the webmaster using mmc at railfuture.org.uk for a login.
We want your impressions as a Railfuture member of using other systems particularly in areas where we see the job as not done in Britain. Areas of interest, where where we can quote international best practice to stimulate improvements here, include: information and wayfinding, ticketing and fares (ie ease of use).
Also of specific interest to help our campaigning here, where there is so much more to be done in Britain, please keep a look out for how other operators are tackling disability access and how rail and light rail is part of a transport system - i.e. integration and city transport systems.
So on your next trip, please use your camera or phone or tablet, take pictures of good and bad practice (max 10Mb) and send your impressions to feedback at railfuture.org.uk. Our aim is to build up a knowledge bank here so we can refer to it to strengthen our arguments during our campaigning by being able to quote worldwide best practice.
In May 2016 we published our first Go and Compare glossy leaflet. It focused on Passenger Priorities - view or download it. 860Kb
In April 2016 the Transport Committee at Westminster announced that it would be holding a Parliamentary Inquiry into improving the Passenger Experience on Britain's railway. The scope looked at the information provided to passengers before, during and after journeys, ticketing, on-train facilities, performance measures and mechanisms to hold operators accountable. Railfuture has produced a photo-presentation on issues affecting the Passenger Experience and has used its research on railway International Best Practice. The slides can be viewed or downloaded (3.5MB)
Click on the headings, photos or 'Read More' link below to see more detail on each topic. Registered users may add their own comments to each article - email the webmaster using mmc at railfuture.org.uk for a login.
A Tale of Two Cities
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In the latest of our Go and Compare series, Ian Brown takes a bus from Zagreb to Ljubljana and compares it with the rail alternative, then travels from Ljubljana to Trieste by train and compares it with the bus alternative. The competition - the Flixbus on the properly signed stand on arrival at Ljubljana, going through to Florence arriving late the same evening.
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