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The population in Switzerland has been growing steadily since the 1990s and the amount of cars has had a similar, positive trend. During 1999-2007 the amount of passenger cars was growing even faster than the amount of inhabitants, but since then the development of the car ownership rate has started showing signs of saturation. Schlagwörter: […]
The population in Switzerland has been growing since the 1960s and a demographic change has started taking place. By 2010 the younger age groups had lost some of their shares to the seniors and the baby boomers became middle-aged. The life expectancy has been continuously increasing and the elderly are becoming healthier and more active, […]
The development of driving licence possessions according to age groups in Switzerland can be seen in the following figure.The shares of younger driving licence holders decreased between 2005 and 2010 and at the same time the amount of elderly drivers increased. Especially the share of 65-79 year old drivers grew significantly, with 10%, which is […]
The travel patterns in Switzerland were analysed based on Microcensus data from 2010 (BFS&ARE 2012) and it turned out that the travel patterns vary greatly between age groups. Besides modal choice also the daily activities are changing. When looking at the daily distances according to trip purpose and age group, education is an important trip […]
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 […]