Profile of Central Switzerland

Postauto Zentralschweiz

The PostBus region of Central Switzerland, based in Lucerne, designs concepts for public passenger transport and provides tailored transport solutions. Our clients are the Confederation, cantons and municipalities. We also serve many attractive excursion destinations with our PostBus tourist routes.

Services

Transport orders

  • On behalf of the Confederation, cantons (office for public transport) and transport networks.
  • Regional passenger transport in accordance with the Railways Act (EBG).
  • Tourist routes.
  • Local bus routes.
  • Extra trips (school routes, sports buses, additional routes).

Order business

  • On behalf of cantons (offices other than public transport), municipalities, associations, companies and transport operators.
  • School buses.
  • Rail replacement buses.
  • Sports buses (ski buses).
  • Company transport services.
  • Local and town transport services.
  • Long-distance services.

Management & engineering

  • Contractors: municipalities, cantons, alliances, transport operators.
  • Design of services in the Central Switzerland region
  • Advice on pricing.
  • Advice on passenger marketing.
  • Management of integrated fare networks.
  • Resale of hardware (e.g. vehicles, sales equipment).
  • Invoicing and sales statistics.
  • Market research projects.
  • Training.
  • Leisure and tourism.
  • Contractors: tour operators, leisure travellers, tourists, associations.
  • Tourist routes.
  • Extra trips.
  • Excursions.
  • Switzerland trips (incoming)/trips abroad (outgoing).
  • Travel agent activities (retailing).
  • Tour operation (e.g. beach holidays in Spain).

Key figures (31.12.2010)

  • No. of routes: 55
  • Length of network in km: 603
  • No. of stops: 790
  • Annual kilometres travelled in millions: 6.1
  • Passengers in millions: 7.5
  • Passenger kilometres in millions: 49
  • No. of vehicles: 112
  • Autonomous company bases: 0
  • PostBus operators: 24

Miscellaneous points

Lucerne, Obwalden, Nidwalden fare network

The Passepartout is a season ticket for this fare network. The fare network includes the cantons of Lucerne, Obwalden and Nidwalden and the association for public conurbation transport (ÖVL) as the ordering party and the transport operators involved as service providers. The PostBus region of Central Switzerland is the managing office for the Passepartout.

Quality Management

PostBus Switzerland Ltd has established a consistent quality management system (Total Quality Management, TQM). The most important components of this are certification to ISO-9001:2000 and the Q quality seal level III from the Swiss tourist board.