{"id":2952,"date":"2025-05-07T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:29:26","slug":"traspol-report-1-25-the-long-distance-coach-market-in-europe-year-2019-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/en\/traspol-report-1-25-the-long-distance-coach-market-in-europe-year-2019-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"TRASPOL REPORT 1\/25: The long-distance coach market in Europe | Year 2019 &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milano, 08.05.2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p>After more than two years of intensive work, today we are publishing the <strong>first edition of the report &#8220;The long-distance coach market in Europe | Year 2019 &#8211; 2024&#8221;<\/strong>, in collaboration with the platform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkmybus.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Checkmybus.com<\/a>. The report is an upgrade of the &#8220;Italian Long-Distance Coach Transport Market Report&#8221; published by TRASPOL between 2017 and 2021. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkmybus.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"59\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/logo-checkmybus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-819\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/banner-Cerre-1024x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/banner-Cerre-1024x140.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/banner-Cerre-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/banner-Cerre-768x105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/banner-Cerre.jpg 1531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This report is <strong>the only independent observatory on coach prices<\/strong> and now covers the entire European continent, including Turkey. It aims at becoming the reference for the industry and will (hopefully) be published every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study is based on a huge <strong>sample of prices<\/strong> collected for 6 years by the platform and describes the <strong>profile of bus users, the prices charged, the main routes and the most requested locations<\/strong>. The entire dataset has been cleaned to ensure the maximum reliability of the results, and geolocated to let us map the market. Here some highlights of this first edition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We classify the OD pairs in <strong>three sub-markets<\/strong>: domestic intercity, cross-border intercity and OD pairs serving an airport. We exclude short routes (&lt;50km for IC, &lt;20km for airport). The main evolution is the relative reduction of intercity traffic (from 81.7% to 69.9% including cross-border) and the corresponding increase of domestic airport connections (from 15.2% to 27.3%). International traffic, heavily influenced by covid pandemics, has very slowly been recovering with respect to domestic segments since 2022, but it is still well below the 20% of the pre-covid era.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-scaled.png\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T1-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T1-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T1-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T1-1536x922.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T1-2048x1229.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>price index (\u20ac\/km) <\/strong>has <strong>grown quite substantially<\/strong> (+15%) in five years (2024 vs. 2019), but in a different way for the three sub-markets, and with airport segment growing the most. 2024 is on average slightly lower than 2023 (-3%), due to the steep reduction of the first semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-1536x922.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/P1-2048x1229.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We compute indicators for <strong>market concentration<\/strong>: share of top-3 carriers by country and average number of carriers per route, by country. The European landscape is very different. While in most of European countries top-3 operators have more than 70% of passengers (!), higher shares are found in The Netherlands, Belgium and especially UK (top-3 above 90%). Only in Eastern countries + Italy and UK passengers can enjoy &gt; 3 average companies per route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Let&#8217;s end with a map: <strong>where are Europeans travelling?<\/strong> Here the answer: everywhere! European coach passengers are extremely more homogeneous than any other similar map representing rail or air flows. Coach system looks more widespread and less polarised on main urban nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T10-with-watermark-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T10-with-watermark-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T10-with-watermark-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T10-with-watermark-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T10-with-watermark-1536x1178.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/T10-with-watermark.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can download the report for free using this link:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/icona-pdf.png\" alt=\"icona pdf\" class=\"wp-image-824\" style=\"width:74px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/icona-pdf.png 180w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/icona-pdf-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/icona-pdf-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/TRASPOL-Checkmybus-Coach-market-report-2021.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traspol.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TRASPOL-Checkmybus-EU-Coach-market-report-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beria P., Sorbona S. (2025). <em>The long-distance coach market in Europe | Year 2019 &#8211; 2024.<\/em> TRASPOL Report 1\/25 &amp; Checkmybus. Milano, Italy.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milano, 08.05.2025. 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