Commercial intelligence for the rail supply chain
Know what rail will buy next.
ARD splits new train orders into the packages suppliers bid for: an estimated value, a date to call, and the source behind it.
- organisations
- 3,093
- sites, city-level
- 3,536
- countries
- 75
- facts, each with its evidence
- 13,808
Every point is a site in the corpus — 3,536 across 75 countries.
01 — Who it is for
Built for people who sell into rail, and people who study it.
Sales and business development, Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers
See the RFQ before it reaches your inbox.
Opportunities: each order split into its packages, with a value range and a contact-by date.
See the screenKey account managers for rail OEMs
Every award changes your account plan.
Atlas: open an OEM for its results, customers, platforms and plants.
See the screenOwners and managing directors of rail suppliers
Know where your next €1M could come from.
Opportunities by category and country, and Insights on whether OEM order books are growing.
See the screenStrategy and market-intelligence analysts
One map of rail. Every fact with its source.
The Atlas, with the evidence behind each figure one click away.
See the screenInvestors, lenders and corporate development
Know what sits behind the backlog.
Insights: book-to-bill and backlog cover, compared in euros.
See the screen
02 — What ARD sees
2,919
Tier-1 component suppliers
152
rail operators and transport authorities
90
rolling-stock platforms, across 22 OEMs
Inside a rail supply market of €201.8bn a year, averaged over 2021–2023. UNIFE World Rail Market Study, 10th ed., 2024
03 — The problem
The deal that showed up in a press release, not your pipeline.
By the time an award is announced, the OEM has often chosen its suppliers. Your first sign of it is a press release, or a call from a competitor who was watching.
04 — One order, followed
One tram order, from Valencia to your RFQ.
A real order, as ARD holds it. Each figure is either on the public record, with its source, or labelled as ARD's estimate.
Every order starts with a buyer. This one is the Valencian government's railway.
Before an award, one public clue is who won this buyer's previous vehicle order.
You would read this one in a press release. ARD records the winner, the value and the date.
An award names a company. What matters to you is what that company buys in.
An OEM builds in many places. The company that won this order is listed at one, next to Valencia.
A tram is not a shopping list. ARD splits this order into eleven packages.
The smaller packages get an estimated value too, so you can size them before you chase them.
The estimated date to call about HVAC was August. The award came out in September.
05 — The product
The same order, as you would see it in ARD.
ARD breaks each new train order it records into supplier packages, with an estimated value range and an estimated date to contact the OEM. Open tenders are listed too, with who has won that buyer's past awards, because the time to call is while the OEM prepares its bid.
06 — Founding Access
Tell us what you sell. We will tell you if ARD covers it.
ARD is open to its first 25 accounts, by invitation. Founding accounts get a direct line to what gets built next.