Last Friday, I was late for a lecture due to a personal injury accident on the Odakyu train.

I left with almost an hour to spare, but there was nothing I could do while the train stopped with me trapped inside.

I am proud to say that I understand personal injury on the railroad.

But - I'm still angry

Even now,

"The responsibility for any personal injury, dead or alive, lies with the person who caused it"

I think no responsibility of train companies, if only they are properly compliant with the MLIT's guidance on the installation of platform doors.

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I know that it is "deathly" difficult to predict the recovery of operations after a personal injury event.

Even so, I would like them to open real-time train location information published in a CUI (command-based interface) if possible.

If GPS information is not possible, closed section information or station standby information is acceptable.

I will not tell the railroad companies to 'publish on the Web' or 'make an app' -- that can be left entirely to the private sector (including me).

As long as the data is made available to the public, traffic engineering students will create applications on their own, even if they are left alone.

You can bet on that.

If they can use that application to write their thesis, it's a win-win.

If there is data there, whether it is CUI or whatever, we are trained to parse something, we are trained to parse something.

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Well, to summarize the above story,

'For my (Ebata's) sake alone, disclose the real-time location of the train after the personal injury accident'

It sounds as if I am saying that.

Still, if a train company can't carelessly say a projected timetable recovery time--

They should only disclose "real-time" data from the time of the accident to the time the accident is resolved, and then throw the rest to private companies (or students, etc.) to avoid their responsibility.