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.
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At the TVS, we take data protection very seriously. As a visitor to the website www.tvs.ch, you decide which personal data you are willing to disclose to us. However, we wish to call your attention to the fact that by visiting our website and reading the newsletter you automatically provide us with information which enables us to determine how visitors use our website and newsletter and which information and offers they find particularly interesting To the extent that such services are provided by third parties, we will not pass your data on to the service providers concerned. Otherwise, we will keep your data confidential and only process it ourselves in an anonymised form. We process data strictly for the purpose of giving individual information to our customers and meeting their interests and needs as well as for our own statistical purposes. Data processing helps us tailor our website to the needs of users. We also process data for marketing analysis. Any other use of your personal particulars, in particular their sale to third parties, is expressly excluded.
For page optimisation and statistical purposes, we collect so-called tracking data that provides infor-mation about users’ browsing behaviour. The way we collect this tracking data for Google Analytics does not allow the identification of individual users. This data cannot be related to identifiable individuals.
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The contact form and e-forms are sent to the TVS as emails. The sender’s IP address and other data are not saved.
You have a right to obtain information at no cost and at any time relating to your stored personal data, its origin and recipient of the data and the purpose of data processing and you also have the right to correct, block or delete this data. You can contact us at any time at the address shown in the legal notice to do this and to ask us any other questions you may have about personal data.
