Development of awarded transport contracts and order book
Awarded transport contracts in rail transport
| Transport contracts awarded (rail) 2019 | Term | Volume (million train km) | ||
p. a. 1) | total1) | |||
| Elbe-Spree network (NES) (2 lots) | 12/2022 – 12/2034 | 14.5 | 171.3 |
| EBO area Karlsruhe Network Grid 7b | 12/2022 – 12/2035 | 4.6 | 59.8 | |
| Lusatia Network (NL) | 12/2022 – 12/2035 | 4.3 | 55.9 | |
| East Schleswig-Holstein e-network | 12/2022 – 12/2035 | 4.2 | 54.6 | |
| Stuttgart S-Bahn (metro) | 07/2028 – 06/2032 | 13.5 | 54.0 | |
| Mainfranken e-network | 12/2021 – 12/2027 2) | 4.8 | 28.6 | |
| Emergency award S1/S4 (NRW) | 12/2019 – 12/2021 | 4.9 | 9.8 | |
| Nuremberg S-Bahn (metro) S6 | 12/2021 – 12/2030 | 0.6 | 5.4 | |
| Baltic Coast West subnetwork | 12/2019 – 12/2021 | 2.2 | 4.4 | |
| Munich — Buchloe suburban transport services | 12/2021 – 12/2026 2) | 0.7 | 3.3 | |
| Line extension FTX Jena — Leipzig 3) | 12/2018 – 12/2023 | 0.5 | 2.7 | |
| Allgäu 2021 (transition) | 12/2020 – 12/2021 | 1.7 | 1.7 | |
| RB 25 Velgast — Barth ( — Bresewitz) | 12/2019 – 12/2025 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
| U28 Děčín — Bad Schandau — Rumburk | 12/2019 – 12/2023 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
Transitional contract RE1 Göttingen — | 12/2018 – 12/2021 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
Insgesamt 1) | 56.9 | 453.4 | ||
1) Differences due to rounding are possible.
2) Option for extension possible.
3) Retroactively published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
In the German regional rail passenger transport market, 25 tender procedures were concluded in the year under review (previous year: 29 procedures) and about 88 million tkm p. a. (previous year: about 93 million train km p. a.) were awarded. Of the train kilometers newly awarded, about 49% had previously been operated by companies within DB Group.
DB Regional was successful in 15 tenders (including published contract amendments) (previous year: 17 tenders), or 65% (previous year: 70%) of the train km awarded p. a.
Taking into account the lot limitation on the Elbe-Spree network, the hit rate was 76% of the achievable annual service volume or 73% of the achievable performance volume awarded over the period.
Awarded transport contracts in bus transport
| Transport contracts awarded (bus) 2019 | Term | Volume (million bus km) | ||
p.a. 1) | total1) | |||
| Schleswig— Flensburg Süd | 01/2020 – 12/2029 | 2.5 | 24.9 |
| North Friesland South | 08/2019 – 07/2029 | 2.0 | 20.2 | |
| Ostholstein Center | 08/2020 – 07/2030 | 1.9 | 19.3 | |
Osnabrück Wallenhorst | 06/2020 – 05/2030 | 1.7 | 16.6 | |
| North Friesland North | 08/2019 – 07/2029 | 1.6 | 16.4 | |
| OD Stormarn (1 lot) | 12/2019 – 12/2029 | 1.5 | 14.7 | |
| WTV — Waldshut West | 12/2019 – 12/2029 | 1.4 | 14.0 | |
| Velbert urban transport | 12/2019 – 12/2027 | 1.2 | 9.9 | |
| Other (31 contracts) | 2 – 10 years | 11.0 | 84.8 | |
Total 1) | 24.8 | 220.8 | ||
1) Differences due to rounding are possible.
In bus transport in Germany, in the year under review, services were awarded with a volume of 134 million commercial vehicle kilometers (cvkm) (previous year: 110 million cvkm) in 186 tenders (previous year: 158 tenders). Of the services newly awarded, 29% (previous year: 38%) were previously operated by DB Regional Bus.
In the year under review, we participated in 114 tenders (previous year: 111 tenders) with a volume of 85 million cvkm (previous year: 81 million cvkm). We won 29% of the tender procedures in which we participated (previous year: 46%).
Order book
| Order book as of Dec 31 (€ billion) | 2019 | 2018 | Change | ||
absolute | % | ||||
| DB Regional | 72.6 | 70.9 | +1.7 | +2.4 |
secured | 56.0 | 52.7 | +3.3 | +6.3 | |
unsecured | 16.6 | 18.2 | –1.6 | –8.8 | |
Revenues that are directly connected with transport contracts or concessions are either independent of (secured revenues, primarily concession fees) or dependent on (unsecured revenues, primarily revenues from fares) the number of passengers.
In the year under review, DB Regional was able to increase the net order book, this means the number of train km won from the competition was higher than the share lost to competitors. In addition, there was additional traffic or larger tender volumes. Overall, the net order book increased by 38% (+138 million train km). Additions of about € 7.5 billion from the transport contracts awarded were offset by disposals – mainly due to services performed – of about € 8.6 billion. In addition, changes to assumptions had a positive impact of about € 2.9 billion (mainly due to energy price and tariff developments).
