Since trains in Switzerland operate at speeds of 200 kilometers per hour and those in Germany and France reach 300 kilometers per hour, they have become a serious competitor to air travel, ushering in a completely new safety culture on the rails. Today’s increasingly sophisticated and tightly scheduled timetables demand a zero-tolerance policy for errors. Moreover, safety must also be the top priority in areas where the last risk factor, known as humans, needs to be outsmarted daily. This new book reveals for the first time what railways are doing today to eliminate even the smallest mishaps, as the gap between a signal failure and a traffic disaster is often just a few hundredths of a second. Those who travel by train daily know all too well: today's timetable density leaves no room for delays. The era of catching up is over in the days of the extensive international timetable network.