Social costs of transport in Switzerland

The statistics on the costs and funding of transport (CFT statistics) is compiled by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and covers all the economic costs caused by transport in the categories infrastructure, means of transport, accidents and damages to human health and the environment for the modes of transport road, rail, air and inland waterways. Adopting the polluter-pays principle, the external costs of transport are also included in the calculations. This full cost approach enables the comparability of the different modes of transport. In addition to establishing the total costs of transport and its underlying cost drivers, the statistics also address the matter of its funding. To do this, a distinction is made between direct and final costs bearers (after transfers). Cost bearers are transport users, transport companies, the public sector and the general public. The "general public" is understood as all people who involuntarily bear the burden of negative effects of transport.

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• Authors:
  • Gigon, C
  • Quandt, A
• Publication Date: 2019-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 6-9
• Serial:
  • Internationales Verkehrswesen
  • Volume: 71
  • Issue Number: Special edition 1
  • Publisher: DVV Media Group GmbH
  • ISSN: 0020-9511

Subject/Index Terms

• ITRD Terms: 224: Cost; 204: External effect; 244: Financing; 6555: Statistics; 8110: Switzerland; 1155: Transport; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01714506
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Aug 23 2019 10:56AM