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Germany
Revenue
£219.2 million
(2006: £121.7 million)
Order book
£1.2 billion
(2006: £0.9 billion)
| Train sets | 148 |
| Buses | 820 |
| Employees | 2,650 |
| Entered rail market | 2004 |
| Entered bus market | 2005 |
| Population | 82.3 million |
| Liberalisation stage | Emerging |
| Germany is the largest European transport market | |
Bus
The highly regulated bus market is almost three times as big as the UK’s bus market. It is hugely fragmented and dominated by state-owned Deutsche Bahn (DB). A substantial proportion of the market is still closed and conditions differ widely between the regions, with the exception of Hesse which has decided on a programme to tender all bus services between now and 2010.
Rail
The rail market is also dominated by DB, however 20 per cent of the regional rail network has now been competitively tendered by regional authorities.
Future
Economic pressures are increasingly driving the need for market testing in Germany. With high capital state subsidies due to end, private companies are becoming an increasingly attractive option for the regional authorities. In rail, it is expected that more short-distance passenger routes will be put out to tender. There is much exciting potential for future growth in both bus and rail in this emerging market.
Cross border service to the Netherlands
Cross border service to the Czech Republic 
