Innovative mobility solutions

Augmenting and strengthening public transport

The world of mobility is changing everywhere, including in Switzerland. As the leading bus company, PostBus offers pioneering services and solutions in an increasingly technology-driven market environment: much more than just driving a bus.

Mobility requirements are growing steadily. At the same time, public transport customers expect its continuous expansion, and this is a challenge because the financial resources available to the cantons and municipalities for investing in this are dwindling steadily in many places.

Flexible, well-functioning mobility chains across all means of transport may offer a solution. PostBus is developing innovative and sustainable solutions in this area, such as the bike-sharing service PubliBike for the last mile, which is now an established approach that is being continually expanded. Or with the PostBus App, which offers all timetables, as well as departure schedules in many places, in real time. PostBus intends to continue playing a pioneering role. One new development is the municipal solution PubliRide, which has been successfully tested in the past year by the municipality of Blauen, a village in the canton of Basel-Land, with its pilot project “Blauen FahrMit”.

Pilot project: mobility sharing services in the PostBus App

Why sit alone in the car if your neighbour is going to the same place? That's what they asked themselves in Blauen. This community of 700 inhabitants is situated above the Laufental valley and connected by 15 PostBus services daily. For the local population, this is not enough flexibility, particularly for young people who do not yet have their driver's licence. Working with the community, Mobility Solutions Ltd and other partners, PostBus launched a pilot project in November 2013 aimed at supplementing the services PostBus provides.

It works like any other mobility sharing platform. If you're driving, you offer a seat. If you're interested, you get in touch. Offers are matched to people looking to share by app or web application, and both the driver and the passenger in question are contacted.

What's new is the special PostBus app for Blauen: when you look up a timetable, it not only shows public transport connections, but also appropriate sharing offers. Available only to registered residents at present, it will be opened up to visitors to Blauen in March 2015. What began exclusively for the people of Blauen is now being developed and optimized for other regions as the PubliRide mobility sharing network. PostBus plans to test the service with other communities.

The mobility sharing network PubliRide complements the PostBus services for municipalities perfectly.

Eliane Leuzinger,

Head of Mobility Management