RAIL MARKET INSIGHTS
Rolling Stock Market Insights 2019: Trends and driver
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industries related to the rolling stock. This could be the regulatory authorities, operators, manufacturers, or a railway consultant. A Rolling Stock Market Insight, one might say, and to limit the discussion of this topic, we would like to emphasize its growth from 2015 until 2019. Bedy Kharisma Data and Business Analyst Global Rail Market
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olling stock refers to the wheeled vehicles that run on railway tracks. By that definition, rolling stock includes railway vehicles such as Locomotives, High-Speed Trains (HST), Electric Multiple Units (EMU), Diesel Multiple Units (DMU), Passenger Coaches (PC), Freight Wagon (FW), And Mass Transit Vehicles, such as Metro, Light Rail Vehicle (LRV), or Tram. And the pursue of an environmentally friendly vehicle introduce a new category of railway car: energy efficient railway cars, which may include: Bi-Mode, TriMode, Battery railway car, Hydrogen Railway Car, Solar Powered Railway Car. Understanding the growth for each vehicle in every region, in the most detailed and specific way, is interestingly beneficial to those
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Just before we dive into the topic, we want to state the methodology and geography definition to make sure we are all in the same issue within the discussion. A brief methodology of this study, it will only discuss the market of new railway cars, produced by OEM, from secondary data. This study will answer: "what" and "how much” vehicle
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gets ordered, to which country, at what price, and within how many months will it be delivered. The correlation amongst those topics will give an insight into how the business nature in the rolling stock industry. And so, the region in this article will be divided into eight areas, namely: CIS, Western/Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa/Middle East, Australia/Pacific, North America, and South America. The volume of vehicles ordered globally shows an exponentially increase, though the majority of it dominated by freight wagon. The fact that railway vehicles consist of many types from low-cost freight wagon to a high-value high-speed train. The volume trends will not necessarily mean the same with value
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