Feature Alert

September 2014

With InnoTrans fast approaching, don't miss your final few opportunities to tell the railway world what you are planning for the big event. IRJ's July, August and September issues will be distributed at the show and will be packed with exclusives not available anywhere else.

September

Germany: As the railway world prepares to visit Berlin, we look at Germany's booming regional railway market. We also speak exclusively to DB Schenker about its domestic and international railfreight activities.

• With 529 monthly readers,* IRJ reaches all the big decision makers in Germany, the world's fourth largest railway market.**

InnoTrans 3
Innovative trains: IRJ lifts the lid on some of the latest rolling stock solutions with several exclusive reports from the world's leading manufacturers. We also focus on the sustainable technologies which will underpin the trains of the future.

InnoTrans preview: IRJ will once again present the most comprehensive preview of the world's largest railway exhibition in our event preview.

• IRJ is the only international railway publication to dedicate three issues to InnoTrans, which are all distributed at the show, providing your company with maximum exposure ahead of the event.

Extra distribution:

• InnoTrans, September 23-26, Berlin, Germany

Closing date for the September issue: August 13
Ad copy date: August 20

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IRJ is the first choice for news and features on the latest developments in the international railway industry for 10,516 railway professionals and decision makers in 129 countries every month. Put your company's products and services in front of the people who really matter.

* Data retrieved from Verified Audit Circulation's audit of International Railway Journal's May 2013 issue and average of the first six issues of 2013.

**Data from SCI Verkehr World Railway Market study 2012

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