TRASPOL REPORT 1/19: Italian Long-Distance Coach Transport Market Report | Year 2018

TRASPOL REPORT 1/19: Italian Long-Distance Coach Transport Market Report | Year 2018

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Milano, 18.04.2019. It is now available online the latest issue of the “Italian Long-Distance Coach Transport Market Report”. Published thanks to the agreement between TRASPOL and the search-engine Checkmybus.it, the new annual report offers an overview of the last three years, investigating the evolution of the market from 2016 to 2018. The report is based on the sample of prices collected by the sales platform and describes il profile of platform users, the prices, the main routes and the most requested destinations, with specific focuses on airport interregional connections.

  • The report shows how the price trend has seen a rise in 2017, while it is in decrease in 2018, in particular for internal routes in southern Italy. During 2018 the average price of interregional routes stood at € 5.8 cents / km for both semesters, despite the usual seasonal variations .

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    • The profile of the users sees the female share permanently predominant, with the age group of young people aged 25 to 44 years who gain relative importance, at the expense especially of the younger group.
    • Among the most requested routes in the second half of 2018 are the North-South connections, growing from 2017 to 2018 along with the other routes concerning the South. At the level of individual Regions, the demand between Lazio and Calabria stands out, while the most requested airport routes are concentrated towards the three main national airports.
    • Among the main routes there are three in direct competition with the railway high-speed service: on these, the average unit price is lower than on similar routes by macro area and distance. This suggests that intermodal competition with a strong alternative pushes fares down if sufficient demand remains to support services.
    • Rome, Naples and Milan are the three consolidated poles that stando out as travel origins an destinations at national level. Numerous cities in the South are growing in the three-year period, in some cases even considerably. Among the airport locations, the performance of Orio al Serio stands out, gaining position both in the ranking of national reports and in that of international travel .
    • The trend of the unit price in relation to the distance of the relationship is decreasing up to 600 km, has a minimum between 600 and 1000 km, then returns to grow on the longest relationships.
    • The unit prices charged by the largest companies are generally lower than the average, while those of smaller companies are significantly higher.

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