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On behalf of the Union internationale des chemins de fer (UIC), BSL Transportation Consultants carried out again the European survey on combined rail/ road transport for the “2016 Report on Combined Transport”. The 2016 Report provides readily usable information on ...

Initially, the market liberalisation in various European countries has triggered a euphoria in rail freight transport that has spawned numerous new entrants as competitors to the national railways. But the…

Wagonload Freight accounts for around one third of all rail freight in Europe, but in almost all European rail freight companies it represents a business segment with extremely weak margins…

Whereas it is now – due to numerous fare and transport associations – almost common-place everywhere in Germany to use a single ticket for multiple modes of transport, a standardisation…

Due to its growing size and popularity, the German public transport market becomes increasingly interesting for international service providers who do not have any direct relation to the transport sector.

In the light of differentiated customer needs, it is of increasing importance for transport companies to continuously develop their own ticket offering and to critically reflect it to-gether with its…

Competition in rail passenger transport is a success story that is often told, especially in 2014 – the twentieth anniversary of the railway reform. It is also mentioned that there…

Questions about the financing of public transport and local rail services have been on the market participants’ minds for quite a long time. Especially the transport companies have to face…

Parameters In the wake of deregulation / regionalisation of the German regional rail market, Europe-wide tendering procedures for operations and possibly sales or the provision of (sub-)network infrastructure are on…