Products & Services
Very high speed rail travel: a high-growth model
With a growth rate of 3.6% per year for the next ten years, the very high speed market, currently worth an annual 2 billion euros, looks set to be one of the most promising sectors in the railway market.
Alstom occupies first place among manufacturers and has built 70% of the trains in service in the world which travel at more than 300 km/h. The company’s very high speed activity is constantly growing. It will account for 6% of sales during 2006-2007 and is expected to reach 10% in 2010, thanks to Alstom’s unrivalled experience and technological lead.
Since the launch of the first TGV™ in 1981, 640 very high speed trains have been sold across the world. They have covered over 2.5 billion kilometres (6,500 times the distance between the earth and the moon), transported 1.5 billion passengers, passed from a commercial operating speed of 260km/h to 320km/h and have 3 world rail speed records to their name: 380km/h in 1981, 515.3km/h in 1990 and 574.8km/h in 2007.
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