844.1 million passengers a year.
2.6 million residents in the catchment area.
Overall area of the service coverage: 8,841 km2.
2009: 25th anniversary of VOR.

772.1 million passengers a year.
5 underground lines, 32 tram lines and 83 bus routes.
754 underground trains, 534 tramcars and 487 buses.
Route network: 961 kilometres.
Modal split: 35%.
Some 8,000 employees.

Vienna waits for you

Vienna is an internationally recognised conference city – the world’s fifth largest – with outstanding infrastructure and the know-how for organising large-scale events.
With almost 400 national and international conference events per year, the Danube metropolis holds a leading place as an international event location.

The 58th UITP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition will be held 2009 in the Reed Exhibitions Messe Wien. This event centre, which opened in January 2004, is situated directly beside Vienna’s famous Prater, one of the city’s largest parks. Vienna city centre can be easily reached in a few minutes with the U2 underground line, which will be extended to the Vienna Stadium by 2008 – in good time for the European Football Championships.

Situated in the heart of Europe, Vienna is easy to reach. Vienna International Airport, located just 16 kilometres to the east of the centre of the city, ranks as one of the most punctual European airports. Vienna on the Danube is also an important port city. Thanks to the Rhein-Main-Danube Canal, Vienna is linked by waterway both with the port of Rotterdam and the German industrial regions as well as with the countries of Eastern Europe down to the Black Sea.

Vienna can offer a wide range of cultural and tourist attractions. Schönbrunn Palace and Park and the historic city centre were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1996 and 2001 respectively. Also in the vicinity of Vienna, often not even an hour’s journey away, there are first-class natural and cultural sites, such as Neusiedler See, the Semmering railway and the Wachau.

Welcome to the “city of public transport”!
Vienna has an extremely efficient public transport network of continuously growing significance that ranks among the most up-to-date, best-functioning systems worldwide. Underground, tramway and bus have developed to become competent problem-solvers for a people- and environmentally-friendly urban transport system.

Two million passengers use Wiener Linien’s range of services daily, with 34% of all trips in Vienna being completed with public transport. But the continuous upgrading of the public transport system still has absolute priority.
The cooperation of all major local public transport utilities from Vienna and the surrounding area in the Transport Association Eastern Region has created a large, customer-friendly network that makes travel by public transport far beyond the city boundary even more attractive. There is an easy-to-understand, uniform tariff system for Vienna and within a distance of 80 km around the city. Thus it is possible to use not only Wiener Linien, but also VOR regional buses, trains of the ÖBB and two further rail utilities with a single ticket.

Numerous innovations of Wiener Linien, Transport Association Eastern Region and Austrian Federal Railways ensure that also in future Vienna will live up to its reputation as the “city of public transport”.

Welcome to the Central European Region!
For the first time, in the four-country grouping of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, under the title of Centrope - Central European Region an international platform was created in which the equally-entitled partners from four countries are working together to continuously boost the international attractiveness of the whole region. As is the case with numerous countries in the four-country grouping of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, the cities of Vienna and Bratislava are partners in Centrope - Central European Region.

In addition to professional economic cooperation arrangements, activities also include efforts focused on the common goal of the maintenance and further improvement of the outstanding quality of life in the region. Great importance is also attached to public transport. In future, cross-border traffic networks and optimised traffic links will bring the seven million people who live in this new economic area closer together.

This is a convergence of strong regions who – jointly even more than individually – stand for innovation, creativity, growth, openness and variety. Particularly the two EU capital cities Bratislava and Vienna, whose agglomerations as “twin cities” extend to within a distance of just 50 kilometres from each other, form power centres of this economically and culturally expanding European region that represents a booming market for investors and sponsors.

Source: Consortium CENTROPE