Transport costs 11,000 francs per head
Published: Monday, Nov 6th 2023, 14:07
Updated At: Tuesday, Nov 7th 2023, 00:54
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In 2020, transport in Switzerland cost almost CHF 11,000 per inhabitant. In total, motorized road, rail and air traffic caused costs of CHF 92.5 billion. These costs were not fully covered.
Compared to 2019, costs fell only slightly by 3% despite the sharp reduction in mobility due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) reported in a new publication on Monday.
The costs of motorized road and rail transport fell by 1% year-on-year. In contrast, there was a sharp decline of 39 percent in air traffic.
Three quarters of the costs were attributable to passenger transport, the rest to freight transport. 56.8 billion of this was the cost of the means of transport. 15.1 billion was spent on transport infrastructure. 9.8 billion was the cost of accidents. 10.8 billion Swiss francs were the cost of environmental and health damage.
Largest private transport item
Private motorized passenger transport cost around 52.1 billion Swiss francs in 2020 (2019: 52.5 billion). Users paid 75 percent, 13 percent was paid by the general public and 12 percent by the public sector.
Taking into account all transfers (mineral oil or cantonal motor vehicle tax), private transport covered 88 percent of its costs. CHF 6.4 billion was passed on to the general public as accident, environmental and health costs.
Public road transport cost CHF 4.2 billion, the same amount as in the previous year. Rail passenger transport accounted for CHF 9.9 billion.
After taking transfers into account, passengers bore CHF 3.2 billion of the final costs and the public purse CHF 5 billion. The transport companies absorbed losses of 1.1 billion francs.
Air travel cost 4.2 billion Swiss francs with a 72 percent drop in passenger numbers. 2.3 billion of this was borne by passengers. 600 million was borne by the general public as health and environmental costs.
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