To kill the mood, maybe it's a bad idea considering one DB signalman was distracted by a phone game and let 2 trains into one train segment heading into each other: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36025951

I played 'esports' before that was a term and before it was this popular and had any mainstream awareness. Essentially we had large LAN-parties with some competitive elements.. good old days of early CS and UT.

I expect we may see more things like this in the future.

My former employer sponsored an Esports team (Liquid).

https://dotheunthinkable.imc.com/

Their reliability is so abysmal that I fly multi-hop flights from Berlin or to airports a few hundred miles off my destination if that allows me to not rely on them. Boats that go up and down the Amazon have not let me down the way DB reliably did.

I design hardware, data science is not my thing. Is it that hard to collect all the delayed train events, categorize them. Create few groups like suicides, train breakdowns, infrastructure failures, too many passengers to close the doors, etc. And then fight the issues by groups defining oldest and possibly failing infrastructure and trains. And managing trains to squeeze everyone inside. Political failure is one thing, but some things can be solved by science.