With this Multi Client Study, entitled - Analysis of Markets and Operators in the Public Transport Sector- , SCI Verkehr GmbH provides a detailed reference work which includes information about the worldwide important operators in mainline transport and urban rail transport, their market environment and competition situation.

Rail passenger transport operators are faced with new challenges as a result of falling public funds and rising competition from public and private competitors. Against this backdrop, players depend on a reliable analysis of market structures and prospects as well as on an analysis of important key company figures and strategies. The study mainly takes into account the current privatisation and deregulation developments which will lead to changing framework conditions worldwide. The merger and concentration processes resulting from this as well as the market entry of new competitors are as important as the forecast of transport performance up to 2014.

In concrete terms, the market study - Analysis of Markets and Operators in the Public Transport Sector- includes:

• Detailed analyses and presentation of the 200 most important operators in rail passenger transport worldwide in the form of fact sheets
• Analysis of the development of the market and competition in the rail passenger transport sector (transport performance, market volumes and market shares)
• Analysis of the world market regions and their operator landscape (costs and revenue structure, growth strategies and general framework)

This Multi Client Study is based on numerous information sources, which are continuously analysed, validated and recorded in a database system as well as on background talks with the key players in the market.

SCI Verkehr GmbH is an independent consultancy company which specialises in the technology and economics of transport. We have close connections to the rail industry, with consultants in a wide range of specialist fields. We have an extensive network of experts in Germany and abroad, and we specialise in market and strategy aspects for the mobility sector. Our activities focus on companies in the transport and rail industry, logistics, public and private transport companies and transport and economics departments in public administration at federal, regional and community level.