Road users get used to traffic
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Moritz Leuenberger wants to prepare the Swiss for paying more when they use transport – public or private. Mobility pricing is rearing its head. An audit of the current state of Switzerland’s infrastructure and a plan for its needs way into the future were the occasion to bring up the subject of costs and funding, in a report presented by the federal Department of the Environment, Transportation, Energy and Communications (Detec) 3 November.
Switzerland has an enviable infrastructural base, among the most advanced in the world, and a mainstay of its competitive economy. The country’s roads, rail system, electrical grid, gas and telecommunications networks contribute 6.5 percent to GDP , or CHF28 billion per year. All together infrastructure employs 198,000 people, or 6.1 percent of the working population.
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Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Coordinated international response to a bioterrorist attack was simulated in Montreux 7 and 8 September in an exercise code-named Black Ice II, according to the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs. The exercise simulated an attack resulting in a pneumonic plague epidemic, and tested the institutional response to such an attack in order to better prepare for the real thing.
Swiss traffic jam, autoroute, 2009: doubling up might help
Update 16:25 Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Paleo Festival Nyon is well and truly over for this year, and we all had very good fun. The festival’s organizers tried even harder this year to encourage public transportation, as GenevaLunch described in its users’ guide to the festival.
Among those efforts was Klaxonne.com, an experiment in “dynamic ride-sharing“, bringing together demand and supply for a ride to a certain place at a certain time, using text messages or sms. Klaxonne was moderately successful at Paleo.
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