Transport

Society's need for greater mobility poses a variety of challenges for existing transport infrastructures and requires innovations and the further development of the regulatory framework.We provide economic advice related to questions of regulation and competition in rail, road and aviation.

Price and access regulation: Determination of track access charges, airport charges and environmental charges, determination of capital cost rates, implementation of efficiency incentives for operators.

Impact assessments: impact of new technologies and regulations, promotion of electromobility

Demand modeling: Future demand forecasts, influence of shared economy, calculation of sustainable infrastructure investments and their financing

Proceedings of competition authorities: Arguments to competition authorities, counterfactual scenarios for predatory pricing.

 

Contact

Urs Trinkner

Dr. Urs Trinkner

Urs Trinkner is the Managing Director of Swiss Economics and Lecturer at the University of Zurich.

Andreas Stritt

Andreas Stritt is an Economist with Swiss Economics.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Finger

Matthias Finger is a Counsel with Swiss Economics and Professor emeritus at EPFL Lausanne.

Publications

Lines of codes floating

SwissPowerShift, 28 octobre 2025

To what extent does the right to charge constitute an effective measure for promoting the expansion of private charging infrastructure, and what additional support measures could be envisaged?

The airline industry was one of the first to adopt many modern technological advancements, such as the use of automatic dependent surveillance broadcasts, GPS and radars. But in comparison to the modern tech giants, airlines appear as “the old guard”, cumbersome companies with legacy technology.

Street in a town

Meta-study for the Civil Engineering Office of Zurich (TAZ)

Connected dots

Baseline study on universal services and public service provision for the Liechtestein Think Tank "Zukunft.li"

Airport from inside

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries. 2020;21(3):297-312

 

train

Research Project on behalf of SVI (Schweizerische Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten).

Clock at the train station

Book chapter on improving the instiutional setting of the rail market in Switzerland.

Airport, Aircraft

Expert report on behalf of Zurich Airport

Cars in a traffic jam

Research project for the Swiss Association of Transportation Engineers and Experts (SVI)

Study for Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Berggebiete (SAB) and Schweizerischer Gemeindeverband (SGV)

train

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 15(1), pp. 78 - 107

Aircraft in the air

In: Studien zur Freizeit- und Tourismusforschung. Hrsg: S. Kübelböck and F. Thiele, MetaGIS-Fachbuch, pp. 155-170

train

Study for the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)

Motorway in the evening

In: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Verkehrswirtschaft. C. Lässer, T. Bieger and R. Maggi (Hrsg.), 2011, 97-114

Cars in a traffic jam

An economic analysis of traffic costs

cargo train

Study for SBB Cargo

Motorway in the evening

Network Industries Quarterly 12(3), 17-19

Arbitration Hammer

Network Industries Quarterly 11(3), 3-6