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It is a familiar story for anybody commuting to Switzerland's urban centres. Whether you work in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, or Zurich, crowded rush-hour trains, trams and busses are a daily reality. And with demand for public transport growing year on year, it's a problem that is likely to escalate.

Swiss Federal Railways spokesman Alessandro Malfanti told online news source swissinfo.ch that currently around half of the 900,000 daily users of the Swiss railway network travel during the morning and evening rush hours. "By 2030, demand will increase by 50 per cent, and by 100 per cent in the urban centres around Zurich and along the Lake Geneva corridor," he added.

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Although commuting itself is not a new phenomenon in Switzerland, according to Federal Institute of Technology public transportation professor Ulrich Weidmann, the distances people are prepared to travel to their places of work have increased: a development he attributes to the improvements in travel times and train frequency, which came as a result of...

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