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Worldwide rail market
Worldwide Rail Market

Cologne, October 2003
Maria Leenen
Mark Döing
Karl Strang
Nicolas Wille
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Contents
1

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2

Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3
3.1
3.2

Mobility trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Growth in transport demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Infrastructure—a scarce resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

4

Renaissance in rail transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5

Deregulation driving the market worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6

The rail market’s structure

7

Existing inventories and structures worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

8
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4

The market for infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Infrastructure for the standard-gauge railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Electrification of the standard-gauge railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Infrastructure for urban transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Electrification of urban transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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9.1
9.2

The market for engineering systems . . . . . . . . .

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