Long-distance bus market in Germany - Statistics & Facts
Long-distance buses are a type of long-distance transport which connects different cities and regions with each other. In Germany, long-distance bus transport was liberalized in the beginning of 2013. Before that, long-distance bus lines were not allowed, barring a few exceptions. This was done for the protection of the Deutsche Bahn. Currently this ban applies only to bus lines that would directly compete with regional train transport.
The number of passengers on scheduled long-distance buses grew from roughly 23 million in 2015 to over 25 million in 2016. Almost 17 million passengers used domestic bus transport in 2016. According to a survey from 2016, that year roughly 950 thousand people in Germany took a long-distance bus for their last vacation.
While numerous players were still active on the long-distance bus market after its liberalization, in 2016 a clear dominance of the Flixbus company (previously MeinFernbus Flixbus) was recognizable. The market share, measured by schedule kilometers offered by Flixbus, amounted to more than 90 percent in the beginning of 2017. The second-largest long-distance bus company at this time, Deutsche Touring/Eurolines, had a market share of just under three percent. Lastly, in the summer of 2016, Flixbus took over the European bus lines of British Megabus and the long-distance bus segment of Postbus.
A long-distance bus line is like a bus line in local transport: during the regularly taken route from city A to city B stops at various locations take place, where passengers can disembark and board. The number of long-distance bus lines in Germany dropped from 319 in the first quarter of 2016 to a total of 246 in the first quarter of 2017.
Although the long-distance bus industry in Germany shows constantly rising passenger numbers, according to the ADAC (General German Automobile Club), the infrastructure in many places leaves much to be desired. The Automobile Club tested a total of ten long-distance bus terminals in January 2017 in eight German federal states und came to the conclusion that 80 percent of the stations tested did not have a tactile management system in the lounge and waiting areas. Every second terminal had no weather protection between the waiting area and the platform.
Long-distance bus market in Germany - Important statistics
- 1. Overview
- 2. Long-distance bus companies
+Number of companies in long-distance omnibus transport in Germany 2008-2014- +Market share of long-distance bus companies in Germany as of January 2017
- +Market share of long-distance bus companies by number of trips in Germany April 2016
- +Market share of long-distance bus companies in Germany as of 2015, by number of lines
- +Number of long-distance bus lines in Germany as of 2015, by company
- +Number of destinations from long-distance bus providers in Germany 2016
- 3. Long-distance bus customers
- +Passengers in scheduled long-distance buses in Germany 2007-2016
- +Passengers in long-distance buses in Germany 2014-2015, by segment
- +Transport performance of long-distance buses in Germany 2007-2015
- +Interest in long-distance bus offers in Germany 2014, by demographics
- +Interest in long-distance bus offers in Germany 2014, by state
- +Interest in long-distance bus offers in Germany 2014
- 4. Trips and prices
- +Number of long-distance bus lines in Germany Q4 2012-Q3 2016
- +Number of daily trips made on long-distance bus lines in Germany 2014-2015
- +Kilometers covered by passengers in long-distance buses in Germany 2013-2015
- +Capacity utilization of scheduled long-distance buses in Germany 2013-2015
- +German cities with the most weekly long-distance bus departures in August 2014
- +Price per kilometer for long-distance bus customers in Germany 2012-2014
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