With this Multi Client Study we provide you, for the first time, with a detailed overview of the worldwide markets for products and services to develop, renew and maintain the track su-perstructure between 2009 and 2014.

The division into eight market regions (Africa/Middle East, Asia, Australia/Pacific, CIS, East-ern Europe, North America, South and Central America and Western Europe), known from former Multi Client Studies, has been extended by a total of 19 national leading markets (Iran, South Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Re-public, Poland, USA, Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom).

For each of these leading markets, the remaining countries of the respective market regions and the region as a whole, the volume of the total market, its distribution to the different types of rail transport (high-speed transport, metro, light-rail transit), to new development and upgrade, renewal and maintenance as well as to the main groups of the products to be procured (rails, switches and crossings, sleepers and rail fastenings, other track compo-nents) as well as the services to be performed for construction and planning

Presentations of status and development of the railway networks, important investment de-cisions and rail projects (including information about financial volume, beginning and the end of implementation) round off the range of information.

The volatility of the market volumes in the individual markets which is driven by number and progress of the projects represents a particular challenge mainly in terms of forecasting the infrastructure markets. In order to minimise this effect and to enable solid strategic state-ments, the three-years average values from the beginning (2008–2010) and the end of the period under consideration (2013–2015) have been compared for the most important results. In addition, the degree of the volatility within the period under consideration has been ana-lysed and some selected results have additionally been presented in year-by-year overview to enable the reader further own researches.

The analysis pools all important information regarding strategic orientation in the worldwide market for railway track systems in a condensed form.