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We will keep you up to date by providing you with information in a nutshell - three times a year (only in German).

Feasibility study for regional transport

Regional transport without fossil fuels: how to successfully transition the region’s buses to a new

, | Feb. 12, 2024


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All the buses in the city of Schaffhausen will soon be entirely electric. Next, the plan is for all buses in the region to follow suit and become fossil free. But how? INFRAS conducted a feasibility study for the canton of Schaffhausen. The study also took into account how service and infrastructure will be impacted.

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Monitoring the Gotthard axis

Gotthard and Ceneri: the impact of the new rail infrastructure on traffic and space

, , | Jan. 29, 2024


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More traffic, more freight on the railway, and the growth of residential areas on either side of the Gotthard portal: INFRAS, along with partner offices, was commissioned by the federal government to investigate the impact of the Gotthard axis's new rail infrastructure on traffic and space. However, the Gotthard tunnel is just one factor at play. 

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SDG Monitoring Report 2023

The EU’s progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

, , , | July 10, 2023


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Towards which of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals is the EU making progress and where is it lagging behind? The Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Ecologic Institute and INFRAS have been examining development within the EU on an annual basis since 2016. The 2023 Eurostat Monitoring Report looks at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic for the first time. 

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Electromobility

Electric vehicles: facts and figures on batteries throughout their life cycle

, | April 24, 2023


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Electric vehicles are on the rise. It is for this exact reason that pertinent questions keep popping up about the batteries of electric vehicles. On behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy, and together with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, INFRAS has prepared a background document to answer these questions. It has a modular structure and addresses the life cycle of a battery, from raw material extraction to disposal. 

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Funding transport infrastructure

A levy on electric vehicles secures long-term road funding

, | April 5, 2023


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With an increasing number of electric vehicles on the road, mineral oil tax is generating less income. The Federal Council wants to offset this by introducing a compensation levy on electric vehicles. The Swiss Confederation tasked INFRAS, alongside Ecoplan and TCS, to put together a tariff model for this levy.

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Roadmap for technology selection

The path to a climate-neutral fleet of heavy duty vehicles

, | Jan. 18, 2023


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Corporate objective: become climate neutral. To achieve this, companies also have to start looking at their vehicle fleet. And when it comes to heavy duty vehicles in particular, this raises some questions: What drive system is the future? How is the total cost of drive technologies changing? INFRAS created an analysis with a roadmap until 2040 for a large logistics company. 

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Long-distance mobility in Germany

Clearing the fog of long-distance mobility

, | Dec. 8, 2022


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Few journeys, but plenty of kilometres: nearly half of Germany’s transport is used for long-distance travel. As a result, this behaviour is difficult to change for the benefit of the environment, as highlighted by a study conducted on behalf of the German Environment Agency (UBA) by a consortium including INFRAS.

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Decarbonization of public transport

What would climate-neutral mobility mean for the Swiss economy?

, , , | Feb. 11, 2022


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The transport sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland. How can these emissions be reduced in a way that is as economically and socially acceptable as possible? There is still little information available on which to base an answer to this question, which is why it is currently the subject of research by a team from INFRAS and ETH Zurich, as part of the NRP 73 National Research Programme.

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