Article 17 — Analysis of expected transport market developments

1. Infrastructure managers shall regularly monitor and analyse transport markets in order to inform their overall business strategy, capacity and contingency management and investment decisions. 2. The network coordinator shall regularly carry out a transport market study on network and market developments for cross-border rail services. The network coordinator shall review and update the transport market study as appropriate, and in any case at least every five years. The results of the market study shall be made publicly available. 3. The transport market analysis within the meaning of paragraph 1 of this Article and the market study referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall in particular provide input to strategic capacity planning as referred to in Article 4, to the partitioning of railway infrastructure capacity as referred to in Article 27 and to capacity allocation on the basis of the formal conflict resolution mechanism referred to in Article 39. Infrastructure managers shall take the transport market analysis within the meaning of paragraph 1 and the market study referred to in paragraph 2 into account in order to inform their overall business strategy, capacity and contingency management and investment decisions.