Information service for public transport
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| purpose | LITRA stands for the creation of favorable framework conditions for public transport, for an efficient and integrated Swiss transport system and an innovative transport industry. |
| Chair: | Martin Candinas |
| Establishment date: | 1936 |
| Seat : | Bern , Switzerland |
| Website: | www.litra.ch |
LITRA - Information Service for Public Transport ( Litra for short , proper spelling LITRA) is an association based in Bern .
LITRA is the platform for transport policy in Switzerland and the contact point for factual and well-founded information on public transport in Switzerland. LITRA offers its members important networking opportunities with decision-makers. It informs members, politics, but also the media, authorities, science and the general public about current transport policy issues, developments and events. LITRA takes a position on central transport policy issues and looks at the most important transport issues in each session.
history
Litra was founded in 1935 as part of the vote on the road sharing initiative as Li gue suisse pour l'organization rationelle du tra fic . Its purpose was to "support the authorities in protecting the public transport facilities". The board consisted of the civil councilors Hans Käser (president) and Bernard de Weck (vice president) as well as the BGB national councilor Hans Tschumi. In 1977 the association was renamed LITRA , the public transport information service .
The association was a pioneer in transport policy: as early as 1960 - the planning of the national road network was barely completed - it called for an “overall conception of Swiss transport policy” to prevent traffic problems. In the context of the “ forest dying debate ” in the 1980s, the Litra criticized the constant growth in traffic and saw road traffic emissions as a main cause. It therefore campaigned intensively for the introduction of a heavy vehicle tax and a motorway vignette.
In the 1990s, the Litra increasingly advocated an ecological transport policy: it observed the steady growth in road freight transport with concern. On the one hand, she feared the loss of importance of the SBB and thus financial losses for the community. On the other hand, she was concerned about the negative health consequences of traffic emissions for the population and nature.
aims
LITRA has been promoting public transport in Switzerland for more than 80 years. Together with its more than 200 members, LITRA stands for the creation of favorable framework conditions for public transport, for an efficient and integrated Swiss transport system and an innovative transport industry.
Services
The association disseminates information about questions and concerns of public transport, takes a position on traffic problems and takes part in consultation processes , especially in legislative projects that affect traffic.
LITRA also offers the following services for its members: political work, advice on transport policy, public transport facts, session preview, information service, traffic figures, studies, session events, information trip.
Members
More than 200 members support LITRA and benefit from the broad network for public transport specialists in the following areas:
- Construction and Industry
- Consulting, engineering and services
- Rolling stock and bus manufacturers, supply industry
- Transport company
- Associations, cantons, institutes
Association organs
LITRA has a broad-based board of directors in which a total of 50 politicians and member representatives take a seat. The most important members also meet in the executive committee and make strategic decisions. The President represents LITRA externally, guides us through our events and represents the interests of our members politically. The LITRA office consists of three people. An independent finance commission oversees LITRA's budget and annual accounts.
public transport facts
What role does public transport play in Switzerland? LITRA publishes important traffic statistics in the LITRA traffic figures, detailed scientific reports on public transport in the yellow series, current usage figures in quarterly reporting and detailed documentation of political activities in the annual report.
Prix LITRA
To mark its 75th anniversary in 2011, LITRA launched a prize for scientific work - the Prix LITRA. This is aimed at all students from Swiss universities and colleges who are devoting their bachelor's or master's thesis to the topic of “public transport” and “mobility”.
With the Prix LITRA, LITRA promotes young public transport talents and aims to promote interest in the industry and encourage reflection on current topics. Works on questions of spatial planning, climate friendliness of transport, tariff issues and planning and better use of the infrastructure are particularly well received. The Prix LITRA is deliberately interdisciplinary.
Every year LITRA awards three student theses with prize money of 3,000 francs.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Pour rationaliser le trafic" Gazette de Lausanne , 31 juillet 1935: "à Berne a été constituée une Ligue suisse pour l'organization ratio nelle du trafic (Litra) Cette ligue soutiendra les autorités dans leurs efforts pour établir un juste équilibre of. moyens de transport et pour protéger les entreprises de transport qui appartiennent à la collectivité. "
- ↑ Transport: Litra . In: National newspaper . July 30, 1935.
- ↑ Switzerland and European transport integration . In: The Bund . September 30, 1960.
- ↑ LITRA (Ed.): Annual Report 1982/83 . 1983.
- ↑ LITRA (Ed.): Annual Report 1990/91 . 1991.