The Swiss Federal Railways SBB were Official Partner and supported Expo.02. 

The latest SBB trains are a piece of Expo.02, and trains with the Expo.02 logo give SBB customers the gift of time. Like cyclists, they can ‘lean into the curve’ and therefore travel faster in curves. The fleet of Expo.02 trains will consist of 24 units travelling hourly between Lake Geneva and St. Gallen, bringing western and eastern Switzerland closer to the Expo.02 three-lake region. The SBB tilting trains will proudly carry the Expo.02 message out into the country: Permettre le Futur.

Permettre le Futur has always been a goal of the railway: the Swiss Federal Railways SBB connect all parts of the country - faster and more frequently, more directly and more comfortably. Its network measures 2'900 kilometres. It has 740 stations and is the backbone of the national transport chain of around 500 rail, bus and shipping companies. Travellers choose SBB 242 million times a year, while SBB Cargo transports almost 60 million tonnes of goods to their destination. More than 230'000 General Abonnement and around 1.9 million Half-Fare travelcard holders are regular SBB customers. And behind these figures are around 28'000 railwaymen and women and a highly sophisticated apparatus.

SBB is constantly expanding its facilities on behalf of the people and the cantons, which is constantly improving the service: for convenient, fast arrivals, for direct journeys and for better connections. In the year before Expo.02, the railway on Lake Neuchâtel is already running on a new 10-kilometre route with two new tracks. With this and the new trains, the journey between Zurich and Lausanne will be around 15 minutes shorter. The fleet of Intercity double-decker coaches is also continuing to grow. So that the railway not only arrives at Expo.02 faster, but also more frequently. From December 2004, over 100'000 people a day will gain almost a quarter of an hour between Basel or Zurich and Berne, which will double to half an hour on the return journey.

^{Text: Swiss Federal Railways SBB, 2002}