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Mon, 30 Aug 2010

Railfreight in billion metric ton kilometers

Statistics for the first half of 2010 are out in Germany. In comparison to 2009, railfreight is up 13.8%, but the world crisis losses aren't fully compensated for. There is additional recovery since the end of June, though.

Germany DB Others France SNCF Others GB
1994 70.6 49.7 13.0
1995 69.7 49.0 13.3
1996 68.1 50.5 15.1
1997 73.2 52.6 16.9
1998 74.1 52.7 17.3
1999 76.8 52.1 18.2
2000 82.7 55.4 18.1
2001 81.0 50.4 19.4
2002 81.1 77.2 (-2.1%) 3.9 (+73.6%) 50.0 18.5
2003 85.1 79.2 (+2.6%) 5.9 (+52.6%) 46.8 18.9
2004 91.9 83.1 (+4.9%) 8.8 (+49.2%) 45.1 20.4
2005 95.4 81.7 (-1.7%) 13.7 (+55.9%) 40.7 21.7
2006 107.0 89.5 (+9.5%)¹ 17.5 (+27.9%) 40.9 40.7 0.2 21.9
2007 114.6 92.1 (+2.9%) 22.5 (+28.7%) 42.6 40.6 (-0.0%) 2.0 (+900%) 21.2
2008 115.7 91.2 (-1.0%) 24.5 (+8.6%) 40.6 35.9 (-11.6%) 4.7 (+135%) 20.6
2009 95.9 72.3 (-20.8%) 23.6 (-3.7%) 32.7 26.5 (-26.2%) 6.2 (+31.9%)
1. half 2010 52.5

¹ incl. buying the Ruhrkohle-AG-Railroad

Sat, 24 Jul 2010

Railfreight in billion metric ton kilometers

While the statistics for 2009 show very bad figures due to the crisis, railfreight in Germany has already recovered almost half of these losses.

Germany DB Others France SNCF Others GB
1994 70.6 49.7 13.0
1995 69.7 49.0 13.3
1996 68.1 50.5 15.1
1997 73.2 52.6 16.9
1998 74.1 52.7 17.3
1999 76.8 52.1 18.2
2000 82.7 55.4 18.1
2001 81.0 50.4 19.4
2002 81.1 77.2 (-2.1%) 3.9 (+73.6%) 50.0 18.5
2003 85.1 79.2 (+2.6%) 5.9 (+52.6%) 46.8 18.9
2004 91.9 83.1 (+4.9%) 8.8 (+49.2%) 45.1 20.4
2005 95.4 81.7 (-1.7%) 13.7 (+55.9%) 40.7 21.7
2006 107.0 89.5 (+9.5%)¹ 17.5 (+27.9%) 40.9 40.7 0.2 21.9
2007 114.6 92.1 (+2.9%) 22.5 (+28.7%) 42.6 40.6 (-0.0%) 2.0 (+900%) 21.2
2008 115.7 91.2 (-1.0%) 24.5 (+8.6%) 40.6 35.9 (-11.6%) 4.7 (+135%) 20.6
2009 95.9 72.3 (-20.8%) 23.6 (-3.7%) 32.7 26.5 (-26.2%) 6.2 (+31.9%)

¹ incl. buying the Ruhrkohle-AG-Railroad

Sun, 19 Oct 2008

Acceleration of DMUs: Regioshuttle Data

Quite some time ago, I was asked about the minimum useful station distance for rail transit without electrification.

Acceleration graph

For giving a precise answer, I obtained data from Stadler, for their „Regioshuttle“ DMU. This acceleration graph has now lived in my website's tmp directory for years. Some of you were linked to it directly.

Starting this Blog gives good opportunity for publishing such little pieces of information for everybody. „Geschwindigkeit“ ≘ „Speed“, „Zeit“ ≘ „Time“, „Weg“ ≘ „Distance“.

Another „thank you“ to the helpful engineers at Stadler.