5 Big infrastructure Projects, Railway reforms, competition

Question 1

Big infrastructure projects

Answer 1

1998: Votation about the FinöV-Fonds (30.5 bill CHF)

• Rail 2000
• NRLA
• Connections to the European High-speed net
• Measures against noise

2014: Votation about the “FABI-Fonds” (without limit)

Question 2

Train system CH - rail 2000

Answer 2

Train use to arrive a few minutes befor 00 or 30 and leave a few minutes later.

important: so fast as needed not as possible!!!

(reduction the travel time between Zurich and bern at less that 60 min. System of nots)

Question 3

NRLA

Answer 3

Lötschberg 2007

Gotthard 2015

Question 4

Alpine Initiative (1994)

Answer 4

Princile

• Transit good trafic across the alps shall be made by rail
• no enlargement of the capacity in the alps

transition article

• in a deadline of 10 years the good traffic from boarder to boarder (trafi in transit) must be made by rail

Question 5

Shares among transalpine freight traffic - Gotthard and Lötschber-simplon

Answer 5

Gotthard:

• SBB Cargo 64%
• BLS Cargo 31
• Rail4 Chem, TX Logistik 3
• Crossrail 2

Lötschberg-Simplon

• BLS Cargo 54
• SBB 23
• Crossrail 23

Question 6

Development regarding demstic traffic, rail import and export in millions of net tons

Answer 6

fluctuaring

decreasing after eco crisis

mostly domestic trafic then import

import quite stable

Question 7

Modal split in transalpine freight traffic in millions of tons

FRA; CH; AUT

Answer 7

France: decreasing both. road 3 times more than rail

CH: much more rail but road is increasing faster (now rail double than road, in 1990 1/4)

austria:

shock during 2009 financial crisis

Question 8

Aim of the railways reform

Answer 8

more producitvity!

(with competition, liberalization, privatization…???)

Question 9

Evaluation swiss railway. Lib index

Answer 9

On schedule (rules)

and

Easy to access (effectiv)

Question 10

Railway reform

Answer 10

Competition level

• System of odering
• benchmarking
• calls for tender
• Open access (international level / regional traffic? / integrated system?)

Organizatory level

• separation between infrastructure and explotation
• independent from state
• independente authority concerining track using

Technical level

• Eliminate technical obstacle who hinder the competition
• European harmonization of technical norms