Transportation in Dresden
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Dresden is major german city and capital of Saxony. It is a road, train and air transport hub in eastern Germany. Local and commuter transport services grant accessibility in the Dresden agglomeration. The city has a dense network of tram and bus lines. Dresden has two major train stations, an international airport and an inner harbour on the Elbe river waterway. Autobahns grant access to all cardinal directions. Dresden is the junction of two class-A European routes.
Dresden is also an international centre of traffic and transport science.
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[edit] Road
The Bundesautobahn 4 (European route E40) crosses Dresden in the northwest. Along the A4 motorway, Dresden has five exits. The A4 connects Dresden with Chemnitz and Frankfurt, and the A14 connects Leipzig and Hanover.
The Bundesautobahn 17 leaves the A4 at the three-junction interchange "Dresden-West" in a south-eastern direction. In Dresden it begins to cross the Ore Mountains towards Prague and provides three exits in the southern parts of Dresden. The Bundesautobahn 13 leaves from the three-point interchange "Dresden-Nord" and goes to Berlin. The A13 and the A17 are on the European route E55.
Bundesstraße roads crossing or running through Dresden are:
- Bundesstraße 6 (Cuxhaven - Görlitz border control at the border to Poland)
- Bundesstraße 97 (Dresden - Guben border control at the border to Poland)
- Bundesstraße 170 (Dresden - Zinnwald-Georgenfeld border control at the border to the Czech Republic)
- Bundesstraße 172 (Dresden - Bad Schandau border control at the border to the Czech Republic)
- Bundesstraße 173 (Dresden - Bamberg)
[edit] Railroad
There are two main inter-city transit hubs in the railway network in Dresden: Dresden Hauptbahnhof is the largest station in town granting access to the network to the southern parts include the Altstadt. Dresden-Neustadt railway station is located to the north of the river Elbe. The most important railway lines run to Berlin, Prague, Leipzig and Chemnitz. A commuter train system (Dresden S-Bahn) operates on three lines alongside the long-distance routes.
[edit] Airport
Dresden Klotzsche Airport is the international airport of Dresden, located at the north-western outskirts of the town in the district of Klotzsche. Its infrastructure has been improved by new terminals and a motorway access route. The only runway of the airport is to be extended to 2,800 metre at the moment. Most of the scheduled flights are domestic flights for example to Munich International Airport, Frankfurt International Airport or Düsseldorf International Airport while there are also some daily international lines to Vienna International Airport, Zürich Airport and London Gatwick Airport.
The airport hosts the EADS Elbe Flugzeugwerke which is the EADS-centre of remodelling Airbus passenger planes to freight planes. The Elbe Flugzeugwerke are the largest plant of aircraft industry in eastern Germany.
[edit] Public local transport
Dresden has a large tramway network that is operated by the Dresden Transport Authority. Because the geological bedrock does not allow the building of underground railways, the tramway is very important in public transport in Dresden. The Transport Authority operates twelve lines on a 200 km network.[1] On the major routes through the inner city, vehicles run every two minutes. The fleet is being renewed to replace the uncomfortable Czech Tatra trams. Today many of the low floor vehicles are up to 45 metres long and produced by Bombardier Transportation in Bautzen. The newest trams are vehicles of the Flexity Classic XXL series that are adjusted to the topography of Dresden.[2] While many tracks in the system are on separated roadbeds (often with grass grown around them to avoid noise) some tracks are still placed on the streets especially in the inner city.
The CarGoTram is a tram that supplies Volkswagen's Transparent Factory, crossing the city. The two trams, up to 60 meters long, are the longest vehicles allowed to use roads in Dresden. The connection by tram was established to reduce the number of trucks used. The transparent factory is located not far from the city centre next to the city's largest park.[3]
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