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HA Hessen Agentur GmbH
Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 38-42
D - 65189 Wiesbaden
info@hessen-agentur.de
www.hessen-agentur.de
Hessian Ministry of Economics,
Transport, Urban an Regional Development
Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 75
D- 65185 Wiesbaden
www.wirtschaft.hessen.de
Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 38-42
D - 65189 Wiesbaden
info@hessen-agentur.de
www.hessen-agentur.de
Hessian Ministry of Economics,
Transport, Urban an Regional Development
Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 75
D- 65185 Wiesbaden
www.wirtschaft.hessen.de
The state of Hessen has made optimal use of its central location in the middle of Germany, and has built up a transportation infrastructure that is unparalleled in Europe. The Rhine-Main region, in particular, occupies a top position in Europe as an international crossroads for air, road and rail traffic.
A host of European superlatives starts with Frankfurt airport. It is one of the most important international airports: It ranks first in Europe in terms of freight turnover. Among Continental European airports, "FRA airport" ranks third with some 50 million passengers. This is hardly surprising, because all major European cities are accessible within three hours flying time. By the same token, whoever or whatever arrives by air has a seamless onward connection to the rail and road network. Frankfurt airport is the only major airport with a long-distance railway station offering direct connections to the Intercity Express (a high-speed rail system) and the European high-speed rail network.
The crossroads for all trans-European north-south and east-west connections is located in the immediate vicinity of the airport: Frankfurter Kreuz - Germany's busiest section of the highway.
The statistics regarding Frankfurt Central Station are equally as impressive. With 350,000 passengers per day, it is the largest station on the continent with the highest volume of passengers. From here, the Intercity Express trains reach most of the economic centers in Germany and Europe within just a few hours.
The optimal interlinking of the various transportation routes enables the extremely fast distribution of commercial goods throughout Europe. Many new, high-performance logistics centers offer their services to ensure the timely delivery of goods within Germany and Europe.
CargoCity Süd at Frankfurt airport, the logistics companies in the vicinity of the airport, the distribution centers in east Hessen and the merchandise transport center in Kassel all bear witness to the undisputed geographic advantages offered by Hessen.
And yet Hessen does not just magnetically attract goods and people in transit; it also bundles the digital information and communication networks for data transfers. Virtually all of the major telecommunication service providers, carriers and data transmission companies are based in Frankfurt. The DE-CIX internet node in Frankfurt handles 85 percent of all German and 28 percent of all European web traffic. Furthermore - thanks to its access to eleven independent fiber optic networks - Frankfurt ranks among the very best international hub cities.
For companies, this means: All markets, customers and suppliers throughout Europe are right on the doorstep.
Mobility of the future: "Staufreies Hessen 2015"
Mobility represents a basic need of society. But mobility is also a crucial basis for the success of economic development processes. New ideas have been developed to beat congestion, with the aim of eliminating traffic jams in Hessen by 2015. Innovative traffic telematics and traffic management tools and measures are ideally suited for making roads more "intelligent", thus not only increasing traffic safety, but also raising the performance capabilities of the road network, minimizing costs, and making a substantial contribution toward protecting the environment.