Passenger Transport Act (Switzerland)
The Federal Act on Passenger Transport ( Passenger Transport Act for short , PBG ) regulates the regular and commercial transport of people in Switzerland by rail, road, water and cable cars in all essential aspects:
- Concession or permit (passenger transport shelf)
- Basic duties (transport obligation, timetable obligation, operating obligation, tariff obligation)
- Transport contract
- Transport of luggage
- Financing (ordered transport offer)
- Accounting
- liability
- Supervision, criminal provisions
The Passenger Transport Act was passed on March 20, 2009 and came into force on January 1, 2010. It replaced an older law of the same name, the Transport Act and, with regard to the financing of public transport, the Railway Act .
Basic duties
Since the concession is an exclusive right, it is also linked to basic obligations. These are intended to ensure a permanent and reliable public service, namely the company must:
- ( Mandatory timetable ) set up a timetable and publish it; the timetable must also be included in a public timetable publication (currently: course book ) and the timetable data must be delivered to a national collection point;
- ( Obligation to operate ) actually and consistently perform such extent publicized trips as far as it is not prevented by force majeure;
- ( Compulsory tariff ) set up and publish a tariff and apply it to everyone in the same situation (prohibition of special conditions);
- ( Obligation to transport ) to actually transport every passenger who complies with the transport regulations, insofar as this is possible with the available resources and is not prevented by force majeure.
