The ARE is the federal government's centre of excellence for issues concerning spatial development, transport policy, sustainable development and international cooperation in spatial planning matters.

8 datasets found

  • Results tables external effects of transport

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Health, Environment, Transport

    Transport and mobility result in a range of costs and benefits. Some of these are felt directly by transport users: the costs of petrol or a rail ticket, or the benefit of getting...

    Last updated: September 24, 2025

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • external-cost
    • transport
  • Monitoring of agglomeration transport and urban development projects (MOCA)

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Population and society, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

    With this publication, the ARE provides agglomerations with the latest available values of the "Monitoring and Control of the Impact of Agglomeration Programmes" indicators (MOCA...

    Last updated: May 1, 2023

    • XLS
  • Transport Outlook 2040

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    The key indicators of trends in passenger and freight transport, as well as the underlying socioeconomic data, are available as Excel tables. The person and tonne kilometres, as...

    Last updated: December 7, 2016

    • XLS
    • freight
    • freight-traffic
    • goods
    • goods-traffic
    • passenger-traffic
    • public-transport
    • rail
    • road
    • transport
    • transport-model
    • transport-modeling
    • vm-uvek
  • Statistics of Switzerland's crop rotation areas 2023

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment

    The statistics on Switzerland's crop rotation areas is based on the geodata on crop rotation areas available to the cantonal offices responsible for spatial planning as of...

    Last updated: January 1, 2023

    • XLS
    • HTML
    • GPKG
    • crop-rotation-areas
    • land-use-planning
    • agriculture
  • Monitoring construction outside the building zones - Status report 2023

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Population and society, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment

    Outside the building zones, there are strict regulations for building. This is intended to prevent urban sprawl and protect cultivated land. The ARE regularly examines current...

    Last updated: May 16, 2023

    • XLS
  • Building zone statistics Switzerland 2022

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Population and society, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment

    The Swiss building zone statistics provide information on the size and spatial distribution of building zones in Switzerland. The statistics are based on the geodata on the...

    Last updated: January 1, 2022

    • XLS
    • ZIP
    • HTML
    • building-zones
    • land-use-planning
  • Sectoral scenarios 2022-2060

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Population and society, Government and public sector, Environment, Economy and finance

    The Offices for Spatial Development (ARE) and Energy (SFOE) have updated the sectoral scenarios in September 2025. These scenarios show the possible development of Switzerland's...

    Last updated: September 22, 2025

    • XLS
    • CSV
    • economics
    • employment
    • sectoral-scenarios
    • value-added
  • Modal share of passenger transport in Switzerland – Synthesis and issues for the public transport

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

    This study shows the role of public transportation, the factors influencing mode choice and the reasons of the unequal importance of public transport in different regions of...

    Last updated: June 12, 2020

    • XLS
    • mobility-and-transport-microcensus
    • mode-choice
    • mode-share
    • mode-split
    • mtmc
    • public-transport