It is a well-known fact that competition stimulates business. This also applies to Deutsche Bahn. Your competitors on the rails are slowly catching up.
Deutsche Bahn’s competitors are slowly but surely catching up on the rails. In freight transport in particular, other railway companies were able to gain market share in the first half of last year, as the current market study by the Federal Network Agency shows. The competitors in this segment now have a share of 58 percent – one percentage point more than at the end of 2021.
Even in long-distance transport, the competition from the state-owned group was able to increase. With a market share of 95 percent, Deutsche Bahn remains by far the largest provider. But in the first half of last year, Deutsche Bahn lost one percentage point there. In particular, the competitors Flixtrain and the French railway company Thalys, in which the state railway company SNCF also has a stake, could have expanded supply and demand.
In regional transport, on the other hand, Deutsche Bahn was able to strengthen its market position and increase its share to the 2020 level in the first half of the year. With 67 percent, the group controlled around two thirds of local rail transport.
All transport companies recorded significantly higher capacity utilization in the first half of the year – both in freight and passenger transport. On average, around 237 passengers traveled on each long-distance train in the first six months of 2022. That was significantly more people than during the two Corona years 2020 and 2021. However, the numbers were still a long way from the pre-pandemic level. Demand also recovered in local transport, although the figures only take into account the effects of the 9-euro ticket to a limited extent.
Source: Stern
Jane Stock is a technology author, who has written for 24 Hours World. She writes about the latest in technology news and trends, and is always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve his audience’s experience.
