In hardly any other place in the world the range of public transport services is as dense and well-developed as in Switzerland. In 2020 the Swiss railway network covered a length of 5 443 km and counted 1 772 stops (incl. cog railways). In the same year the operational public road transport network measured 21 190 km. The share of public transport in total motorised land transport was around 16% in the second "Corona Year" 2021, which is the same level as in 2020. The public transport share had been much higher before the pandemic (2019: 21%).
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Inland waterways (public): Passenger vessel, car ferry
Year
Network length, in km
5 443
21 1901
1 0371
5141
2020
Stations and stops
1 772
23 080
...
337
2020
Transport enterprises
812r
139r
210
28
2020
Vehicle-km3 (millions)
2074
375
15
2
2021
Person-km (millions)
14 349
3 615
309
1176
2021
Persons killed (in accidents)
212
10
1
1
2022
r revised 1) Operating length 2) Passenger and goods transport 3) Rail: train-km; public road transport: scheduled route-kilometres; cable cars: vehicle-km; inland waterways: ship-km 4) Only passenger transport 5) Only funiculars 6) Excluding car ferries
Source: FSO – Public transport statistics (TP)
Performances in passenger rail transport in the last four available quarters (in brackets: Change compared to previous year)
3rd quarter 2022
4th quarter 2022
1st quarter 2023 p
2nd quarter 2023 p
Passenger journeys (millions)
114.6 (+24.1%)
118.7 (+18.2%)
118.2 (+28.9%)
123.7 (+13.0%)
Person-km (millions)
4 902.1 (+28.6%)
4 932.6 (+22.0%)
4 876.8 (+33.4%)
5 220.9 (+12.3%)
p provisional data (situation on: September 14, 2023)
Note: Analogous to Ordinance (EU) No 2018/643 only enterprises with an annual transport performance of at least 200 million person-km.
Source: FSO – Public transport statistics (TP)
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