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Freight Transport Forum: the industry stands together for progress in rail freight transport

Freight Transport Forum: the industry stands together for progress in rail freight transport

On 3 May 2022, the popular Freight Transport Forum finally took place again after three years. The most important players and representatives from the shipping industry from all over Europe met to refresh their expertise and exchange ideas with colleagues across...
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Interoperability

18.09.2022 |
INTEROPERABILITY The VAP is com­mit­ted to inter­ope­ra­bi­li­ty. This means har­mo­ni­s­ing the frame­work con­di­ti­ons so that trains can run free­ly on Euro­pean rail networks. Swiss freight trans­port knows no bor­ders. Many of our mem­bers are...
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VAP signs letter of intent on automation

VAP signs letter of intent on automation

Tog­e­ther with the Fede­ral Office of Trans­port (FOT) and the Asso­cia­ti­on of Public Trans­port (VÖV), the VAP Asso­cia­ti­on of the Loa­ding Indus­try has signed a decla­ra­ti­on of intent to auto­ma­te Swiss rail freight trans­port. The long-term major pro­ject...
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Gotthard Base Tunnel (#10): Europe presents the final report

Gotthard Base Tunnel (#10): Europe presents the final report

In mid-July 2024, the Joint Net­work Secre­ta­ri­at (JNS) of the Euro­pean Union Agen­cy for Rail­ways (ERA) published its final report on the acci­dent in the Gott­hard Base Tun­nel on 10 August 2023. This con­ta­ins an exten­ded scope of appli­ca­ti­on, an increased...
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The digitalisation of rail freight transport is picking up speed

The digitalisation of rail freight transport is picking up speed

Poli­ti­ci­ans are adap­ting the frame­work con­di­ti­ons for the migra­ti­on to digi­tal auto­ma­tic cou­pling (DAK) and the tech­no­lo­gy for the future stan­dard is being defi­ned step by step. Switz­er­land is har­mo­ni­s­ing its intro­duc­tion pro­cess with that...
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Autumn session 2024: transport policy on the agenda

Autumn session 2024: transport policy on the agenda

In the autumn ses­si­on from 9 to 27 Sep­tem­ber 2024, Par­lia­ment dis­cus­sed various trans­port poli­cy issues. Par­ti­cu­lar atten­ti­on was paid to the revi­si­on of the Freight Trans­port Act (GüTG). This bill stands in stark con­trast to SBB Cargo’s de facto...
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Modal shift: In transit on the right track

Modal shift: In transit on the right track

The Fede­ral Council’s “Modal shift report July 2019 – June 2021” pres­ents the deve­lo­p­ment of tran­sal­pi­ne freight traf­fic and envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­ti­on on the tran­sal­pi­ne tran­sit axes. It then exami­nes the sta­tus of imple­men­ta­ti­on of the modal...
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Progress for automation in rail freight transport

Progress for automation in rail freight transport

The Coun­cils adopted the moti­on «Trans­port­ing more effi­ci­ent­ly by rail through auto­ma­ti­on» by VAP Pre­si­dent and Coun­cil­lor of Sta­tes Josef Ditt­li in the autumn or win­ter ses­si­on 2020. The Euro­pe-wide intro­duc­tion of digi­tal auto­ma­tic...
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