{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Alpine transit","description":"Alpine transit is the freight and passenger traffic that crosses the entire Alpine arc on the way between northern and southern Europe, neither starting nor ending within the Alpine region itself. Freight is funnelled through a handful of corridors – in Switzerland the Gotthard and Lötschberg/Simplon routes, elsewhere the Brenner, Mont-Cenis/Fréjus and Tarvisio crossings. For shippers, Alpine transit is a bottleneck: capacity, train-path availability and construction work on the feeder lines oft","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","name":"Frachtportal Logistics Glossary","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary"},"url":"https://www.freight-academy.com/en/glossary/alpine-transit","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-09-19T08:53:12.158295","citation":"https://www.bav.admin.ch/de/verlagerung-des-gueterverkehrs-durch-die-alpen","markdownMirror":"https://www.freight-academy.com/api/md/glossary/en/alpine-transit","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Frachtportal","url":"https://www.freight-academy.com"},"quickSummary":"Alpine transit · Alpine transit is the freight and passenger traffic that crosses the entire Alpine arc on the way between northern and southern Europe, neither starting nor ending within the Alpine region itself. · Quelle: https://www.bav.admin.ch/de/verlagerung-des-gueterverkehrs-durch-die-alpen"}