The strongest data foundation for rail market experts
The World Rail Market Study 2026 will no longer be a static report – it’s a modular rail market intelligence platform: searchable with AI, explorable via interactive charts, and built for teams through flexible licensing.
The online data platform offers significant advantages over the product formats you are familiar with. All content will be accessible via a modern AI-powered search function with relevant filters to help you conveniently and quickly find the information you need.
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Focus exclusively on the content most relevant to you and use interactive charts to support interpretation and analysis. A clear focus on defined subject areas ensures that the information most pertinent to your needs is readily available.
Within the modules, readers of the World Rail Market Study will find:
Core Access Module
- Overview of the world rail supply market (status quo for 2023-2025) across rolling stock, infrastructure, services, rail control (Control Command and Signalling) and turnkey
- Detailed information on the installed base of infrastructure and rolling stock in 2025, with comparisons to 2023 by sub-segment and region
- Comprehensive assessment of rail supply order value for 2023-2025 at regional level across product categories (e.g. very high speed (VHS), EMUs, locomotives, metros)
- Review of total and accessible markets, including how accessibility evolved over 2023-2025
- Qualitative chapter on digitalisation, covering key trends such as automated operations, ETCS, cyber security, predictive maintenance and other priority areas
- Methodology and forecast logic, combining top-down algorithms with extensive bottom-up input from leading rail supply companies
Modules Forecast Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Services and CCS (available individually)
Modules Forecast Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Services and CCS
- Detailed forecast of rail supply order value for 2026-2028 & 2029-2031, including
- key opportunities in the largest countries in each region across
- product segments
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Download the abstract for a concise overview, browse the table of contents, or access additional documents and materials to learn more about the concept, structure, and key topics:
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