{"id":202533,"date":"2025-06-24T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=202533"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:18:37","slug":"record-passenger-rail-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/record-passenger-rail-2024","title":{"rendered":"Rail: new record passenger numbers in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passenger rail transport grew by 6%<\/strong> in 2024 (and by 14% compared with 2019, the reference year), a level equivalent to the two previous years, according to the latest report from the French Transport Regulation Authority (ART). The increase, which amounts to 4% for high-speed trains alone, could have been greater had it not been for the year-long closure of SNCF and Trenitalia's Paris-Milan routes due to a rockfall. in the Maurienne valley<\/a> in August 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, competition from these two airlines on the Paris-Lyon route is bearing fruit, with lower rates<\/strong> and an increase in ridership of 20%, compared with 2019, on an axis that accounts for 10% of high-speed rail activity. ART points out that in Spain, where competition is now very strong between Renfe, Trenitalia (with Iryo) and SNCF (with Ouigo Spain), overall passenger numbers rose by 14% last year and by almost a third since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The arrival in 2023 of the Renfe<\/a> from Lyon and Marseille, to Barcelona and Madrid respectively, has also made boost visitor numbers<\/strong> by 30% since 2019 on the France-Spain routes. The good form of the train concerns Europe in general, which has seen its ridership increase by 7% (in passenger-km). However, the United Kingdom is struggling to catch up with pre-crisis levels (-8%\/2019) despite growth of 10% in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n