Short routes and fast connections are becoming increasingly important. All the European centers can be reached quickly and conveniently from Nuremberg using a wide range of trunk transport services. An excellent local transport system provides optimum connections within the conurbation.
Nuremberg is located at the intersection of three major motorways.
Nuremberg is a European railway hub and is integrated into the Euro-City network, the national InterCity network, the high-speed network (ICE) and the German Railway combined network.
Location factor airport: Nuremberg is a powerful international aviation hub. Every year some 4 million passengers take off from Nuremberg Airport to 60 nonstop destinations and more than 300 transit destinations.
Location factor Freight Traffic Center (GVZ): The large Main-Danube Canal waterway flows through Nuremberg and together with the Rhine and Danube rivers forms a waterway of 3,500 km in length. Nuremberg offers good water transport connections to the states bordering on the Rhine, the North Sea and via the Danube to the Black Sea.
Nuremberg is the center of VGN, the third-largest integrated transport system in Germany. The integrated transport system covers a total area of 11,750 km² and 3 million people live in the area covered by the system.The system reliably transports 200 million passengers a year by subway, bus, streetcar, and local trains.
