SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) is launching a pilot project to use self-driving car shuttles as part of the existing integrated mobility system already in place in the city of Zug. This is the first such project in Switzerland, and will start this summer with two self-driving vehicles providing a shuttle service between Zug railway station and the Technologiecluster Zug industrial centre.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has launched a new strategy which aims to combine its existing strengths with new technology to enable it to increase capacity, offer door-to-door journeys, and develop digital stations and smart freight wagons.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has begun work on an SFr 100m ($US 101m) project to expand SBB Cargo’s San Paolo marshalling yard at Bellinzona to increase capacity as part of the broader upgrading of the Gotthard corridor.

GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Zugbus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee and Swiss Federal Railways’ (SBB) German subsidiary SBB Deutschland have been awarded the tender for regional passenger train services of the ‘Aulendorfer Kreuz’ regional network by the public transport authorities of the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the Bavarian Railway Company (BEG).

COMMERCIAL services began running through Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel with the start of the 2017 timetable on December 11, resulting in shorter journey times for passengers and freight customers along the north-south Gotthard corridor.

WITH just weeks to go before the start of full commercial operations, Switzerland’s Federal Transport Office (BAV) has approved the use of Bombardier Traxx locomotives in the Gotthard Base Tunnel following the installation of an ETCS software update.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has exercised an option worth SFr 32m ($US 32.8m) for three more LRZ 18 firefighting, rescue and recovery trains, it was announced on November 3.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) announced on October 31 that the digital currency Bitcoin will be available to purchase at station ticket machines from November 11, as part of a two-year trial.

SWISS Federal Railways’ freight subsidiary SBB Cargo plans to introduce a synchronised timetable for its single wagonload traffic sector at the timetable change on December 11, with up to three daily shifts at its main marshalling yards instead of just one.

IRJ at InnoTrans 2016: STADLER CEO Mr Peter Spuler and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) CEO Mr Andreas Meyer jointly unveiled SBB’s new 250km/h RABe 501 Giruno EMU at InnoTrans on September 21.