The Swiss capacity allocation body TVS is a federal not-for-profit entity under public law with a sepa-rate legal personality.
We are independent and customer-driven. Our guiding principles are neutrality, quality and efficiency.
Here you'll find details of our Board of Directors and Executive Board and an organisation chart of the TVS.
The Board of Directors sets the strategic goals of the TVS every four years.
Here you can find out more about the work the TVS undertakes for the various parts of the rail network.
In addition to other tasks delegated to us, the TVS carries out the infrastructure management work needed to ensure that trains can access the rail network. This is explained in more detail here.
The timetable is generated by the train path design. The TVS is responsible for timetabling and participates in every phase of the timetabling process.
Use of the track network is based on a request or an order and the allocation of rights of use. The TVS accepts orders and allocates train paths and ancillary services.
Rail freight corridors are an important part of Switzerland’s policy of transferring freight from road to rail. The main role of the TVS here is in helping to coordinate available capacity and providing the framework conditions.
In accordance with Article 15f of the Railways Ordinance (EBV), the TVS keeps a register of the information required to operate on the rail infrastructure.
A charge is levied for use of the railway infrastructure. The TVS is responsible for ensuring that the services consumed by train path users are recorded and invoiced in a non-discriminatory manner.
The investment plans of the infrastructure managers state how they intend to undertake and fund the maintenance and expansion of their infrastructure in the future.
TVS collaborates with various European infrastructure-manager institutions and bodies to the extent that this is of benefit to the various duties it carries out and services it provides.
As a company in the rail infrastructure sector, the TVS plays an active role in Swiss rail industry bodies.
The glossary explains some of the specialist terminology the TVS uses in its work.
Here you'll find general information about the TVS as well as an introduction to the topic of railway network access.
The TVS is responsible for Switzerland’s entire interoperable standard-gauge network, plus the non-interoperable standard-gauge routes Emmenbrücke–Lenzburg and Zürich–Zürich Giesshübel (branch line).
It is not responsible for Switzerland’s metre- and narrow-gauge networks as well as, in accordance with the provisions of the relevant international treaties, for the standard-gauge cross-border routes of German and Austrian railways on Swiss territory. The TVS is also not responsible for the country’s three- and four-rail tracks.
The keeping of the infrastructure register is governed by separate jurisdictional regulations, in accordance with Article 15f of the Railways Ordinance (EBV). Details of the precise network boundary at the national border are provided under Section 5.2, Table 6 of the Application Guide published by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), which lays down the common specifications of the railway infrastructure register. The infrastructure register may include routes and stations that are part of the non-interoperable network. Further information is provided in the InfrastrukturregisterInfrastructure Register Guidelines published by the Federal Office of Transport (FOT).
IMs under the responsibility of the TVS (standard-gauge routes only)
Standard-gauge routes not under the responsibility of the TVS
