Schedule procedure
Timetable procedure refers to a procedure commonly used in Switzerland to involve the public in the development of public transport services .
The procedure is based on a provision in Art. 7 of the Timetable Ordinance (FPV), which regulates the creation, publication of timetables and operational obligations . It applies to regional public transport by road , rail , regular passenger shipping and cable cars used for public transport . Purely urban lines are not recorded, but these are included on a voluntary basis.
Consultation with the public is therefore mandatory. However, it is designed and implemented by the cantons responsible for public transport . As a rule, it begins with the public display of the draft timetable in authorities and, since 2004, on the Internet. You will then have the opportunity to submit comments and change requests to the cantonal authorities for around four weeks. They then examine the proposals and decide on implementation with the transport companies concerned.
A further participation or a right of objection for the objectors is then no longer provided, also for reasons of time. The procedure is carried out in this way every two years. In the years in between, if only minor changes are made, in a reduced form, mostly without public participation.
In most cantons, the design takes place in spring for the timetable period beginning in December . At this point the timetables have already been worked out in detail so that only small changes are possible. Some cantons (e.g. the canton of Bern ) have therefore started to create further opportunities for participation in earlier planning phases in order to be able to deal with larger changes in good time.
literature
- Martin Schiefelbusch: The Swiss timetable procedure. In: Local transport 9/2005.
- Martin Schiefelbusch, Hans-Liudger Dienel (ed.): Customer interests in public transport - consumer protection and consumer participation. Erich-Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-503-11009-4 (series Verkehr und Technik , Volume 96).