In 2025, 2.8 billion passengers were travelling by rail in Germany, about 2% more than in the previous year. According to provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that transport performance, i.e. the route that all passengers travelled together with railways in regular local services, rose to 66 billion passenger kilometres, and thus by 3% compared to the previous year. {/mprestriction} In local bus services, the nu…