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A car’s capacity use is the lowest during commuting trips and business related travelling. 91% of the commuters drive to work alone, whereas during leisure time most of the private vehicles carry more than one person (see following figure, BFS&ARE 2012). Increased capacity utilization in the form of car pooling or car sharing are ways to […]
The traffic performance has had a continuously rising trend in the past decades in Switzerland. The traffic volumes are increasing and people are travelling further and longer. This has been the case for all transport modes and especially for the rail transport (BFS 2010). Schlagwörter: Mobility patterns, Switzerland
The mobility team at the Institute of Sustainable Development (ZHAW) has developed nationwide, spatial indicators for sustainable mobility in Switzerland. There are indicators for social, economic and ecological sustainability and these indicators are visualized with GINES (=Geographisches INformations- und EntscheidungsSystem). Schlagwörter: Indicators, Switzerland
Traffic noise has become a significant issue in Switzerland. Approximately 17% of the population is affected by high road traffic, rail or air transport noise, which has a negative influence on the quality of life in the Swiss residental zones. Road traffic is clearly the largest noise source. According to the Federal Office for the […]