China Buses&Coaches Industry Needs to Pursue More
2008-12-31 Source：english.chinabuses.com
After strong growth in recent years, the global market for commercial vehicles will stagnate until 2010. More than half of the buses are produced in emerging markets (China, South America and Eastern Europe). Before 2015, no safety legislations demanding specific equipments or features are expected; only emission standards will continue to have a significant impact on bus technology. Fleet managers, OEMs, and system suppliers have a rather consistent opinion about key buying criteria. Reliability is the dominating issue in all-buying decisions as it has a high impact on life cycle costs and revenues.
In order to meet customer expectations, OEMs and suppliers need to focus on the top priorities reliability and life cycle costs without neglecting other factors, such as comfort and safety features. Due to the shortage of qualified drivers and the high impact of driver qualification on operating costs, comfort is also an important criterion. Safety, of course, is important but most customers are not willing to pay for available features. In terms of comfort and safety, the challenge for bus OEMs is to achieve performance, which is still competitive at the lowest possible cost.
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