📋 Tender Overview
The Luxembourg Regulatory Institute (ILR) has just published its report in November on the key figures bringing together all the national statistical data for the railway sector for the year 2024. This report presents a detailed view of the evolution from 2019 (pre-Covid year) to 2024 of the railway network infrastructure, national indicators of passenger and freight rail traffic and certain financial indicators. The statistical indicators included in the report on key figures relate to the distances traveled in trains.km, passengers.km and tonnes.km in national and international traffic and many other indicators. The document also brings together financial indicators such as the turnover of railway companies, investments and operating costs of the network manager. As the main developments observed in 2024, the ILR notes that rail traffic in Luxembourg has experienced a pronounced increase for passenger transport, while freight traffic continues to decline. Passenger traffic.km has been strongly impacted by the health crisis, national traffic as well as international traffic now largely exceeds pre-Covid levels in 2019. The total journey in trains.km amounts to 8.24 million, an annual growth of 6.41%. Passenger train traffic recorded a volume of 7.86 million train.km, representing annual growth of 7.14%. Passenger train traffic continues to represent more than 95% of total traffic. Freight shows an annual decline of 6.55% with 0.38 million trains.km in 2024. The intensity of use of the rail network in 2024, an indicator which represents the number of trains running on average per day on one kilometer of lines in the Grand Duchy, is 83.22 trains per day and km. This high intensity of use of the rail network is correlated with rail traffic. Passenger transport stands out again with a significant annual increase in total passenger journeys of 9.99%. The total passenger journey in 2024 reaches 555.52 million passengers.km, after 505.05 million in 2023. Goods transport decreases in 2024 to 217.05 million tonnes.km, a reduction of 5.75% on an annual basis. The report complements the range of information that the ILR offers to interested parties. In addition to this report, the ILR provides other tools, such as interactive tables or Open Data, with the aim of presenting, in various forms, an exhaustive and neutral list of information on the railway sector in Luxembourg. The ILR is a member of the European network of independent rail regulators (IRG-Rail) which will publish its 14th annual rail market monitoring report in the second quarter of 2026. This annual report establishes an inventory with a very wide range of indicators of the rail networks in Europe.
