SBB is shaping the mobility of the future – simple, personal, connected.
The world of mobility is undergoing a far-reaching transformation: customers’ mobility needs are changing, new providers are pushing their way onto the market, and digitisation and automation are opening up new possibilities – and all the while demand is continuing to increase. There is a growing need for personalised intermodal mobility and logistics solutions for our customers.
As the backbone and driving force of public transport, SBB combines the strengths of the rail system with the potential offered by digitisation and new modes of transport – throughout the entire travel chain. This means that SBB is evolving into more and more of a digital and personal mobility service provider. Digitisation and new technologies present opportunities for connecting up the individual elements of the integrated rail system in a better way and covering the “last miles” more efficiently.
SBB plans to keep on driving innovation and making substantial, highly targeted investments to keep mobility attractive and affordable for customers and ordering parties. The company intends to make savings in areas that will not affect customers directly and to work on increasing the capacity utilisation of its trains. SBB is turning stations and sites into appealing mobility hubs and spaces that offer a varied range of services. It is also working on sustainable service concepts, testing innovative mobility solutions and enhancing the environmental advantage that the railway holds over other forms of transport. At the same time, providing advice to and personal contact with our customers will always remain important. SBB is shaping the mobility of the future – simple, personal, connected.
Rent, don't buy: rent a bike to get to and from the station in the summer or cover the first and last few kilometres by car – SBB is developing and testing solutions designed to meet current needs in cooperation with various partners.
Human-powered mobility has remained popular following the lifting of the lockdown. To meet customer demand for using public transport and bikes flexibly, SBB is testing a new product offer together with folding bike manufacturer Brompton in the Biel area. The folding bike offer keeps more space free for passengers on busy trains because the bikes can be stored between the rows of seating. And users can also enjoy cycling the first and last mile.
The people of Basel now have another sharing product available for the first and last mile, complementing the e-scooters and e-bikes already available. Light electric vehicles from the Swiss start-up Enuu from Biel can be used in a free-floating system. In cooperation with Enuu, SBB plans to carry out tests looking into the extent to which a sharing product offer for light electric vehicles can reduce car traffic within city centres.
Andreas Hermann from St. Gallen University and Björn Bender from the SBB business unit New Mobility Services regularly discuss topics concerning the mobility of the future.
SBB is a founding member of the Work Smart Initiative. Together with its partners, SBB is testing work-here, a service which offers commuters more workspace options – complementing working from home and providing access to public transport outside of peak times.
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YUMUV is a research project in which a new mobility package is being piloted together with city public transport providers Bernmobil, VBZ and BVB in Bern, Basel and Zurich.
The pilot project sowiduu in the Biel conurbation (Ipsach, Bellmund, Port and Brügg), completed successfully this spring, was one of several on-demand projects in Switzerland being explored with specialist support from SBB. Evaluation of the project has shown that, for rural municipalities, on-demand buses are attractive solutions for optimising local residents’ access to the public transport network. They connect localities tangentially and create new connections.
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The city of Bülach is working together with Dietikon and Meilen on the Mobility Stations pilot project. This is a MONAMO project (models for sustainable mobility in municipalities). SBB is supporting the scheme because it wishes to simplify combined and first and last-mile mobility, and so improve access to the train. Other MONAMO projects are being carried out in the cities of Aarau, Martigny, Riviera and Wil and receive support from the Energie Schweiz (Energy Switzerland) programme run by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
Self-driving vehicles still have a long way to go before they’ll be ready for use on normal roads. But these vehicles will able to improve the efficiency of public transport in the near future. SBB is now a project partner in the Matteschnegg project and is sharing its experiences from the MyShuttle project in Zug.
If you want to discover Switzerland by bike but are not so keen on taking your bike with you on long train journeys, you can make use of the high-quality hire bikes and e-bikes on offer.
If you want your own e-bike for a couple of months, we can also offer long-term rental starting right now.
Combining all available modes of transport with maximum flexibility is the solution for simple and individual travel planning. SBB offers various options for making your journey planning simple, straightforward and personal.
