Gotthard Tunnel Traffic Jam Twitter Updates

Monday, July 8, 2013

The Best Time to Drive or Travel through the Gotthard Road Tunnel - Forecast

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Latest Update: 09.June 2015 Forecast 2015

The Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) will do a forecast on a daily and weekly basis and for the summer holiday season.

https://www.tcs.ch/de/assets/verkehrsinfo/schulferien-staukalender-2015.pdf

Forecast for summer 2015 now available. First Page School Holidays in Switzerland and on second page forecast of traffic - please see explanation of the colour code used below:
Color code of the forecast:
Black: extremely high traffic is expected (peak)
Red: very high traffic
Orange: Medium high traffic
White: normal traffic


Link to the daily and weekly forecast (in German):
Stauprognosen TCS

If you would like to get a sense of the traffic jam profiles from the last week-ends please see here:
http://gotthardtunneltraffic.tumblr.com/






































Here a graph showing traffic jam lenght by day of the week. Friday and Saturday are the most busiest. Color green: Direction south to Italy Color red: Direction north to Zürich Traffic jam length during summer holidays per day of the week


General patterns:
The peak traffic times for the direction to Italy during summer holiday season will be on Fridays and Saturdays during the month of July.

Also on Eastern long traffic jams can happen.

The peak traffic times for the North direction, when travelers return from Italy will last from Mid of July till Mid of August and can vary from Friday to Sunday.

Traffic Jam Profiles by gotthardjam.appspot.com for 2014:
Friday, 04 July 2014



































Saturday, 05 July 2014




































Sunday,06 July 2014 to Monday,07 July 2014:




































Friday, 11 July, 2014 peak traffic was 10 km at around 13:30 hrs:



































Saturday, 12 July 2014




































In General:
Traffic will peak most of the times between 11:00 and 14:00 hrs during such days if there is no accident. Yet this year in July 2013 the pattern has changed. Traffic peaked between 8 and 10 am in the morning and there was always a traffic jam during the night from Fridays to Saturdays averaging at around 3 km length.

Infographic on the  Gotthard and Traffic Situation in 2013.
Direction South before the north portal at Göschenen: 168 days with traffic jams
Direction North before the south portal at Airolo: 173 days with traffic
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Gotthard Tunnel Alternative Routes

6. Alternative Route: Gotthard Pass or San Bernardino A13

Other alternatives:


Comparison between Gotthardtunnel and San Bernardino Pass. If you drive via Basel and you have to decide to go via Luzern / Gotthard or via Zürich and San Bernardino the differences are as follows: (Remark: Both routes will join in Bellinzona.)
Via Gotthardtunnel: 285 km to Chiasso the border town to Italy. Driving time when no traffic: 2h 55 Minutes
Via San Bernardino Pass: 368 km and driving time when no traffic 3h 52 Minutes

On a good day you can save 57 Minutes and 83 km if you go via the St. Gotthard tunnel.

If there is a traffic jam before the Gotthard Road tunnel the average waiting time is 10 minutes per kilometer.

Compare the situation with Live TomTom:
Pratteln to Bellinzona through the Gotthard Tunnel (228 km)
Pratteln to Splügen and Splügen to Bellinzona via A13 San Bernardino (311km)

Gotthard Pass is open since May 21.
Webcam in Andermatt (Gotthard Pass). Source Hotel Metropol

















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Gotthard Tunnel RSS News

5. Gotthard Tunnel News and Traffic News


Gotthard Tunnel Useful Links

4. Useful Links:

Motorways in Switzerland
ViaSuisse
Discussion Forum: http://www.englishforum.ch/

Gotthard Tunnel Live Traffic News in German

Traffic updates in German ViaSuisse on: Teletext , TCS (Touring Club Switzerland), searchch, Postauto

See also: Verkehrsinfo Staumeldungen

Gotthard Tunnel Live Traffic Jam Evolution

3b. Graphical Representation of the length of traffic jam before the North and South Portal of the Gotthard Tunnel:

gotthardjam.appspot.com


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Gotthard Tunnel Live Traffic on Google Map

3a. Live Traffic Google Map

If you are an iphone user please see

Google Map Live Traffic Updates on iPhone: How to activate this service ?


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Gotthard Tunnel Traffic Live Webcams

2. 16 Live Webcams Route North to South A2/A4 Switzerland to Italy covering 40 km before and 50 km after the tunnel
To update webcams again please refresh this page.


40 km A2 North before the Gotthard tunnel: Seelisbergtunnel (webcam looking towards direction Basel)
Source: Swiss Authorities

31 km A4 North before the Gotthard tunnel: Flüelen (webcam looking towards direction Gotthard)
Source: Swiss Authorities

21km A2 North before the Gotthard tunnel: Erstfeld NEAT construction site (webcam looking towards North direction Basel) - updated every 15 minutes.
Source: Alptransit

1 km A2 North before the Gotthard tunnel: Goeschenen (webcam looking towards South direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: Swiss authorities


GOTTHARD TUNNEL NORTH =======================================
Fast Motion Video - Length 4 min showing the drive through the Gotthard Tunnel

6s: The Gotthard Tunnel Drive Through in Six Seconds (Twitter Vine Video)

Events along the Gotthard Tunnel Route

Click on the picture to see the list of events
http://ppalme.blogspot.ch/2015/06/events-along-gotthard-tunnel-route-in.html
GOTTHARD TUNNEL SOUTH =======================================
0.5 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Airolo (webcam looking towards South direction Italy)
Source: Swiss authorities

1 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Airolo Nord (webcam looking towards North direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: AET

1.5 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Airolo (webcam looking towards South direction Italy)
Source: OASI
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2 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Airolo South (webcam looking towards South direction Itlay)
Source: AET

2.6 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Stalvedro (webcam looking towards South direction Italy)
Source: OASI
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6 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Piotta (webcam looking towards South direction Italy)
Source: OASI
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8.5 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Quinto (webcam looking towards North direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: OASI
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10 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Varenzo (webcam looking towards North direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: OASI
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13 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Piottino (webcam looking towards North direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: AET

16 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Faido(webcam looking towards North direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: OASI
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22 km A2 South after the Gotthard tunnel: Lavorgo(webcam looking towards South direction Italy)
Source: OASI
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53 km South after the Gotthard tunnel: Bellinzona (webcam looking towards North direction Gotthard tunnel)
Source: Swiss authorities


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Gotthard Tunnel Traffic News Twitter Updates

1. Gotthard Tunnel Traffic - A2 Motorway - Twitter update