Control Command and Signalling - Global Market Trends 2010-2015

Control command and signalling represents the high-tech segment of infrastructure. Besides vehicle technology, it is at the peak of technological development in the field of rail transport. Sufficient investments in control command and signalling are of crucial importance for the transport mode rail.
Whereas European countries have a high demand for innovation in the existing control command and signalling and interoperability determines the development trend, other countries with comprehensive new development and upgrade projects focus on efficient control command and signalling technology from the very beginning.

The new market study by SCI Verkehr GmbH analyses the current situation and development of the worldwide market for products and services of railway technology in the field of control command and signalling.

In concrete terms, the Multi Client Study includes:

• Market volumes and forecast of the eight world market regions and 20 deep-dive countries
• New development and upgrade projects worldwide as well as the demand from network operators for maintenance and renewal
• Market volume and forecast of the product groups electronic interlocking technology, ETCS, GSM-R and level crossing protection systems are presented separately
• Market volume and forecast of the transport modes high-speed transport, conventional railway, metro and light-rail transit are presented separately
• Market drivers, trends and general conditions for investments in the eight world market regions and 20 countries considered in detail
• The global and regional leading companies are identified and portrayed in clearly arranged fact sheets in the annex showing the facts and figures relating to their company and business activities as well as organisational and strategic information.

The market study is based on a number of sources of information from the press and discussions with experts which are continuously analysed, validated and entered into the SCI/Database.

The study is available in German from August 2010 and in English from October 2010.

SCI Verkehr GmbH is an independent consul¬tancy company specialising 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 municipal level.

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