Roads & Traffic 2008
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0 0 5 8 0 . 8 0 ROADS & TRAFFIC FACTS & FIGURES 2008 Publisher: Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) Concept and realisation: Informato Ltd., Zurich Research and text: Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) Orders: Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications 3003 Bern Swiss Federa l Road s Office (FEDRO) Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications 3003 Bern Phone.: 031 322 94 11 Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Confédération suisse Fax: 031 323 23 03 Confederazione Svizzera E-mail: [email protected] Confederaziun svizra Internet: www.astra.admin.ch BSwiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) Contents Page The duties of the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) 2 Motorways and construction sites Ongoing development of the motorway network 3 Total length by road category 4 Classification of motorways 5 The Swiss motorway network 6 Motorway sections scheduled to be opened to traffic between 2008 and 2012 7 Motorway tunnels 8 Switzerland‘s most modern tunnel 9 Motorway service stations 10 2.15 billion Swiss francs for construction, expansion and maintenance 11 Major road works on the motorway network 12 Major maintenance sites on the motorway network in 2008 13 –15 European trunk roads passing through Switzerland 16 Finance Financing 17 Income and expenditure in the roads sector 18 –19 HGVs Inspection of heavy goods vehicles in 2007 20 –21 HGV inspection centres 22 Traffic flow and traffic management Transalpine goods traffic in 2007 23 Traffic volume on Switzerland’s motorways in 2007 24 Traffic flow on Switzerland’s motorways in 2007 25 Traffic jams on Switzerland’s motorways in 2007 26 Swiss traffic management centre (VMZ-CH) 27 Human-powered mobility Human-powered mobility 28 Historic transport routes 29 Hiking routes 30 Cycle routes 31 Road traffic and vehicles New legal provisions governing road traffic 32 Licence withdrawals and warnings in 2007 33 Strict measures to improve the level of road safety 34 Registration of new road vehicles by vehicle category and type, 1995–2007 35 Inventory of vehicles in Switzerland 36 No. of cars per capita in Europe 37 Names and addresses Road traffic departments 38 Cantonal police headquarters 39 Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) address list 40 2007/2008 Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Motorways and construction sites 2007/2008 Confédération suisse Confédération suisse Confederazione Svizzera Confederazione Svizzera Confederaziun svizra Confederaziun svizra 2 BSwiss Federal Roads Office FEDRO BSwiss Federal Roads Office FEDRO 3 THE DUTIES OF THE The Swiss Federal Roads Office The concept of the existing motor - ONGOING (FEDRO) is the Swiss authority that way network in Switzerland is lar - SWISS FEDERAL ROADS is responsible for the country’s road gely based on the federal resolu - DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFFICE infrastructure and private road tion that was adopted in 1960. In MOTORWAY NETWORK transport. As of 1 January 2008, its the meantime, mobility behaviour, range of duties increased signifi - housing development and traffic cantly. With the entry into effect of volume have all changed signifi - the redistribution of financial cantly, with the consequence that responsibility and the accompanying division of duties between the federal govern - the motorways have reached the limits of their capacity in many areas. The Swiss Fed- ment and the cantons, it assumed the functions of developer and operator of the eral Roads Office is currently preparing decision-making criteria for the Federal Coun - motorway network. It belongs to the Federal Department of the Environment, Trans - cil and Parliament regarding a number of proposals that take the changing situation port, Energy and Communications (DETEC), and focuses on securing sustainable and into account. These primarily concern the following three areas of action: safe mobility on the country’s roads. Amendment of the federal resolution on the Elimination of bottlenecks: widening of motorway network: integration of existing roads existing stretches of motorway into the network The duties of the Swiss Federal Roads Office are as follows: The Infrastructure Fund Act stipulates that bottlenecks a) To complete a safe, efficient and economical motorway network and preserve its sub - The allocation of existing routes to the network of roads of must be eliminated from the existing motorway network, and stance over the long term. national importance no longer fully meets present-day and Parliament has meanwhile approved a credit facility of 5.5 bil - future requirements. In view of this, the federal government lion Swiss francs for the purpose of widening existing b) To secure the functionality of our country’s motorways and their integration into the resolved to carry out a comprehensive review of national stretches of motorway. The Federal Council now has to submit pan-European network. routes within the scope of the national transport plan. For the a motion to Parliament by 31 December 2009 in which it iden - c) To guarantee safe and secure access for road users and vehicles. purpose of this review it defined criteria that roads of national tifies existing bottlenecks on the motorway network, lists importance are required to meet, and used these as the basis measures for eliminating them and presents a programme d) To enhance the degree of safety on our roads for all users and vehicles. for drawing up proposals for modifying the network. specifying how the approved credit facility is to be utilised. This programme has to be co-ordinated with the measures e) To reduce the burden on the environment attributable to road traffic. The Swiss Federal Roads Office now has to draw up the nec - defined in the cantonal and regional agglomeration pro - essary legal basis for regulating the proposed amendments to grammes, and is to form an integral part of the overall review the motorway network, and thus for ensuring that all regions of the motorway network. To achieve these goals, FEDRO performs the following main of the country have access to roads of national importance in functions: a coherent manner and on a long-term basis. At the official level, this is to be effected via an amendment to the federal a) It prepares decisions for a coherent policy in the areas of road transport (including Overall review of the motorway network: resolution on the motorway network that was adopted in goods transport by road) and traffic safety at the national and international levels, securing its functionality over the long term and subsequently implements them. This encompasses the following areas of action: 1960. This is a matter that has to be decided in Parliament. In practice it almost exclusively concerns the transfer of respon - In its overall review of the motorway network, the Federal • Construction, maintenance and operation of the country’s motorways. sibility for approximately 400 existing kilometres of road from Council is to put forward comprehensive proposals for secur - • Enforcement of the provisions governing the use of the portion of oil tax that has the cantons to the federal government. ing the long-term functionality of both the existing and been earmarked for road traffic. future stretches. The main objectives here are to secure co- • Specification of requirements on vehicles and road users, behaviour in road traffic, ordination between the various agglomeration programmes, footpaths, cycle paths and historical routes (human-powered mobility). the elimination of bottlenecks and the required amendment to b) It is the highest authority for the supervision of roads of national importance. the federal resolution on the motorway network, as well as to define interfaces, specify priorities and describe how the nec - c) It deals with complaints to the Federal Council against local traffic measures. essary measures are to be financed. This review process will also pave the way for comprehensive debate on the future development of the motorway network. Repairs to the stretch of motorway between the Limmattal junction and the Urdorf South access road. 2007/2008 Motorways and construction sites Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft MNoattoirownaaylstaransdsecnonusntrduBctaiuosnteslilteens 2007/2008 Confédération suisse Confédération suisse Confederazione Svizzera Confederazione Svizzera Confederaziun svizra Confederaziun svizra 4 BSwiss Federal Roads Office FEDRO BSwunisdseFseadmetrafül rRSotardasssOefnfiAceSTFREDA RO 5 Motorways in use CLASSIFICATION in accordance with the Motorways Act dated 8 May 1960 TOTAL LENGTH BY ROAD CATEGORY OF MOTORWAYS Canton Motorways Expressways Mixed- Total km traffic roads 7-lane 6-lane 4-lane 3-lane 2-lane planned in use planned in use planned in use planned in use planned in use planned in use planned in use ZH ––37.1 29.7 110.9 82.0 – 1.9 11.1 11.1 ––159.1 124.7 BE ––13.2 13.2 136.7 124.4 ––62.6 43.8 19.4 19.4 231.9 200.8 LU ––2.6 2.6 55.9 55.9 ––––––58.5 58.5 UR ––––53.0 37.1 ––6.3 16.3 10.0 16.1 69.3 69.5 SZ ––––52.7 43.2 –––2.2 – 4.3 52.7 49.7 OW ––––1.8 1.8 ––31.1 17.8 1.0 13.3 33.9 32.9 NW ––––22.9 22.9 ––0.9 0.9 2.0 – 25.8 23.8 Motorways GL ––––16.6 16.6 ––––––16.6 16.6 ZG ––––17.7 17.7 ––––––17.7 17.7 FR ––––84.2 84.2 ––––––84.2 84.2 For motor vehicles only For all vehicles SO ––––43.8 43.8 ––––––43.8 43.8 BS ––3.5 3.5 8.0 6.0 ––––––11.5 9.5 BL ––9.5 9.5 20.7 20.7 ––––––30.2 30.2 Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 SH ––––1.9 –––17.2 17.2 ––19.1 17.2 SG ––––139.8 139.8 ––––––139.8 139.8 GR ––––50.2 43.6 ––112.1 90.8