Matthias Rapp
Rapp Trans AG

Christian Albrecht
Head of Transport Policy Section, Federal Office for Spatial Development

10th World Congress on ITS, Madrid

Summary

Responding to the growing goods traffic on transalpine roads the Swiss Government has introduced a traffic management system for heavy goods vehicles (HGV) following the fire catastrophe in the St. Gotthard tunnel in October, 2001. The safety-driven capacity management system comprises minimum distance requirements between heavy vehicles in tunnels, alternating one-way traffic for HGVs in the San Bernardino Tunnel and HGV-metering in the St. Gotthard tunnel as well as speed reduction for HGVs in tunnels and on access ramps. In order to further optimise the capacity management a slot reservation scheme for HGV passages is being developed. In addition, the long term perspective of an Alpine Transit Rights Trading Exchange is studied in a research project. The paper describes the experiences with the current operation of the Swiss transalpine capacity management and the development of a HGV slot reservation system and gives an outlook on the feasibility study of an Alpine Transit Rights Trading Exchange.

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