Transport partnerships

Through the summer with PostBus

60,000 festival visitors were carried around the clock from the train station and car parks to the festival grounds in Burgdorf and back.

Organizers of major events are faced with the logistical challenge of getting large numbers of people to the event on time via public transport. PostBus is the ideal partner during peak periods.

What do Swiss wrestling festival visitors, Gigathlon competitors and techno fans have in common? They all benefited in 2013 from reliable PostBus shuttle services to get safely to their events on time.

Big operation for Swiss wrestling fans

With 300,000 visitors, the Swiss wrestling and alpine festival in Burgdorf in the canton of Berne is one of Switzerland's biggest annual sporting events. To cope with such a huge influx of visitors, the organizers turned to PostBus. With 32 Postbuses, a total of 89 drivers took 60,000 festival visitors around the clock from the train station and car parks to the festival grounds in Burgdorf and back around the clock. Silvio Gely, Head of PostBus, Berne region: “Thanks to our experience from past wrestling and alpine festivals, we were able to plan our efforts in plenty of time to guarantee that the passengers were transported smoothly.”

On the road for sport and music

Across Switzerland on inline skates, by bike or on foot – and sometimes also on a Postbus: The 6,000 competitors at this year's Swiss Olympic Gigathlon were offered shuttle rides with Postbuses at the start and finish of the stages. At the stage destinations Chur, Ennetburgen, Berne and Lausanne, stationary Postbuses were made available as free, always-on Internet hotspots.

Over 5,000 visitors travelled by public transport to the Summer Never Ends Festival in Rona in the canton of Graubünden. A clear case for PostBus: with around 80 journeys, PostBus, Graubünden region took the music fans from Tiefencastel to the festival grounds at Rona, and back again on Sunday.