Private transport: New record with 39,863 hours
PATIENCE IS REQUIRED Last year, traffic jams on the national roads increased to almost 40,000 hours. At the same time, the reserves of the National Roads and Agglomeration Traffic Fund have increased.
In 2022, the transport performance of motorized private transport amounted to almost 90 billion passenger kilometers, representing growth of more than five percent. In the same period, freight traffic remained relatively stable with more than 17 billion tonne-kilometres being transported by road. At the same time, traffic jams on the national roads reached a new record of 39,863 hours.
Olivier Fantino, Managing Director of Roads Switzerland: "These figures demonstrate both the resilience and the importance of the national road network for the functioning of the country. Nevertheless, the bottlenecks on the national roads must be eliminated urgently in order to avoid an increase in the risk of accidents and a shift of traffic to the cantonal or municipal network."
Completion of the highway network
The reserves for motorway and conurbation traffic have increased further and amounted to around CHF 3.8 billion as at January 1, 2023. These funds are intended in particular for the elimination of congestion and the completion of the freeway network. 100 percent of the reserves created come from road users. They will make it possible to finance the 2023 expansion phase of the motorway network without increasing charges or taxes.
After deducting the mandatory offsetting measures, private road traffic will have produced around 11.73 million tons of CO2 emissions, which corresponds to a 40 percent reduction per vehicle kilometer compared to 1990.
Olivier Fantino notes that "these good results testify to the industry's great efforts to bring ever more efficient vehicles onto the market."
