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NORTH AMERICA - POST-STIMULUS PASSENGER RAIL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS The major American Recovery and Reinvestment Program of 2009 (ARRA) seems to open up a new era of high-speed, long-distance passenger and commuter rail in the USA. Overtopping by far the programmes in the corresponding neighbouring countries as well as the efforts taken by previous national governments, it was temporarily in danger to overrun the regional transit angencies and national passenger rail operator Amtrak. In the meanwhile, most of them have arranged their respective programmes and submitted their bids. After the first batch of projects has received funding, time is right to put a first spotlight on what has been done, what is being done and what can be expected over the next future. SCI CompactStudies is a new series of studies from SCI Verkehr with which we aim to round off our broad range of studies and consultancy services. In our SCI CompactStudies, we analyse the current issues and hot topics in a condensed format. We provide an overview of the background, market developments, projects, opinions, trends and prospects, thus offering an even more reasonably priced alternative to the popular SCI MultiClient Studies. In detail, this CompactStudy includes:
This Compact Study is based on information collected from multiple (official and unofficial) sources that has been consolidated, rationalised and interpreted using SCI Verkehrs unique data sources and expertise gained during 16 years of serving the railway industry. SCI Verkehr GmbH is an independent consultancy company for the mobility sector with activities around the world. We specialise first and foremost on strategic consultancy for companies and the public sector in the railway and logistics sectors. As a renowned industry insider, we focus on market and competition aspects with consultants from a wide variety of specialist fields and an extensive network of experts in Germany and abroad. |
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