Service-oriented - Die Schweizerische Post

54 Annual Geschäftsbericht Report | Considerate 2006
Passenger transport
The new timetable that came into force
on 10 ecember 2006 resulted in improved
Postbus services in many parts of
Switzerland. espite this expansion, we
succeeded in reducing both energy consumption
and climatic impact by four
percent 22 .
Besides matching the size of the vehicles
to demand, PostBus reduces the environmental
impact by sourcing vehicles with
the latest exhaust emission technology,
re-equipping existing vehicles and using
environmentally friendly fuels.
To further reduce exhaust emissions, in
particular nitrogen oxides and particulate
matter (PM10), PostBus intends to equip
150 new vehicles per year with soot particle
filters that meet the EEV (Enhanced
Environmentally Friendly Vehicles) standard,
beginning in 2007. This standard is
more stringent than the Euro-5 standard
planned for 2009. In 2006 only vehicles
with soot particle filters were delivered
(114 vehicles). Moreover, a total of
around 140 vehicles were re-equipped
with soot particle filters as part of a special
campaign. At the end of 2006, 693
vehicles had a soot particle filter, corresponding
to around one third of the Postbus
fleet, including minibuses.
More and more cantons, as customers of
road-based public transport services, are
requiring particle filters to be fitted and
they are also financing the additional
investment and high maintenance costs.
For vehicles with soot particle filters, Post-
Bus uses low-emission diesel fuel. This
environmentally friendly diesel fuel, in
combination with the latest engine and
catalytic converter technology, makes it
possible to virtually eliminate harmful
emissions subject to statutory limits. Post-
Bus was already using eleven gas-powered
buses as early as 2001. Since then,
the gas-powered bus fleet in the Principality
of Liechtenstein has grown to 25
vehicles.
Business trips
Business trips conducted on behalf of
Swiss Post should be as environmentally
friendly as possible. According to the
CEC, public transport should therefore be
used wherever possible. For this purpose
we offer our employees day-return train
tickets. They can also make use of 1,850
vehicles for business trips – of which
35 are hybrid vehicles – at 1,000 Mobility
CarSharing 23 locations.
Of course, virtual business trips are even
more environmentally friendly and
less costly. This e-meeting option has
been available since ecember 2006. With
a mouse-click, participants enter a virtual
room at the beginning of the discussion
or training session. The integrated conference
link permits communication without
a telephone, and participants can also see
what is displayed on the other monitors.
Journeys to work are often
underestimated
Optimization of parcel and letter handling
processes and the restructuring of the
post office network resulted in centralization
and longer journeys to work. These
were recorded for the Group as a whole
for the first time in 2005. Every day, Swiss
Post employees travel more than 1.3 million
kilometres on their way to and from
work – which is more than four times the
distance between the earth and the
moon. Over half of all employees travel
by car, just under one third by public
transport, while six percent walk or use a
bicycle.
In terms of overall environmental impact,
employee traffic – at 14 percent – is thus
almost as high as the total road-based
goods transports of Swiss Post (16 percent),
or three times the environmental
impact resulting from heat used by all
Swiss Post buildings.
In order to promote use of environmentally
friendly public transport, Swiss Post –
in cooperation with Swiss Federal Railways
– offers general rail passes for its
active employees at a 20 percent discount.
This discount now applies also to
reduced-price general rail passes such as
the Junior, Senior, Familia Partner, Familia
Youth, uo Partner, etc. All trainees
of Swiss Post and its subsidiaries receive a
general rail pass. This is a greater incen-