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1 Contents

Editorial 3 Financing gaps in the roads sector 4 – 7 Safety installations in the Gotthard road tunnel 8 – 13 Use of asphalt on Switzerland’s motorways 14 – 17 Forests along motorways: protection as well as hazard 18 – 19 Forest and rock clearance along the Brünig route 20 165,000 plants for an erosion prevention project on the Simplon 21 1.9 billion Swiss francs for the construction, expansion and maintenance 22 of the motorway network Three new tunnels in the cantons of Jura, Bern and Grisons 23 Major roadworks in 2011 24 – 25 1,790.1 kilometres of motorway completed 26 The Swiss motorway network 27 Vehicles covered an accumulated distance of 25 billion kilometres in 2010 28 Seven million vehicles a day on Switzerland’s motorways 29 Increase in transalpine heavy goods traffic 30 – 31 Elimination of bottlenecks on the motorway network 32 – 33 Publisher Speed control over a certain distance instead of on-the-spot: testing of 34 – 35 Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) a new system Electric bikes: convenient, fast and ecological mobility 36 – 39 Concept and realisation grafikwerkstatt upart, Bern Number of registered cars surpasses 4 million for the first time 40 – 41 Number of withdrawn driving licences up by 5.4 percent 42 Research and text Lowest number of fatalities since 2005 43 Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) Organisational chart of the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) 44 Klar-Kommunikation, Bern FEDRO addresses and Regional Units 45 Cantonal police headquarters 46 Orders Road traffic departments 47 Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO)

Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) 3003 Bern Phone 031 322 94 11 Fax 031 323 23 03 [email protected] www.astra.admin.ch

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3062 Operational maintenance,includingprotective structures (global budget);maintenance,expansion Property, plant,equipmentandintangibleassets,inventory Extraordinary initialdeposit Annual deposit Protection ofotherroads againstforces ofnature Protection ofenvironment andlandscapes(road traffic) Carriage ofHGVsbyrail,carriagecars byrailandNEAT (FOT) Railway crossings, separationoftraffic (FOT) International transalpineroutesInternational General contributions toroads, offsetting Railway crossings Main roads 50 Earmarked contributions Earmarked Special financingof road transport % (in millionSwiss francs)

168 7 landscapes environment and Protection ofthe contributions Project-related / cantons withoutmotorways Oil taxsurcharge

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