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Transport in Hungary relies on several main modes, includingtransport by road, rail, air and water.
Hungary has a total of 159,568 km (99,150 mi) of public roads, of which 70,050 km (43,530 mi) are paved (including 1481 km ofmotorways, as of 2016); and 89,518 km (55,620 mi) are unpaved (2005 etc.):
Hungarian road categories are as follows:
Hungarian motorways and expressways are part of the national road network. As of October 2016, there are 1,481 kilometres (920 mi) ofcontrolled-access highways.
Motorways (autópályák, singular -autópálya) in Hungary:
M1 |M3 |M4 |M5 |M6 |M7 |M8 |M15 |M19 |M30 |M31 |M35 |M43 |M60
Expressways (autóutak, singular -autóút) in Hungary:
M0 | M2 | M9 | M51 |M70 |M85 | M86
New motorway sections are being added to the existing network, which already connects many major economically important cities to thecapital.
Bus transport between municipalities was provided byVolán Companies, twenty-four bus companies founded in 1970 and named after the regions they served. They also provided local transport in cities and towns that did not have their own public transport company (all cities except for Budapest, Miskolc, Pécs, Kaposvár and also Debrecen after 2009), and operated bus lines in cities where the local company operated only tram and trolley bus lines (Szeged and Debrecen, the latter until 2009, when DKV took over the bus lines). In early 2015 the 24 companies were organized into seven regional companies.
Note: Hungary andAustria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway betweenGyőr–Sopron–Ebenfurt (GySEV/ROeEE), a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria.
In Budapest, the three main railway stations are theEastern (Keleti),Western (Nyugati) andSouthern (Déli), with other outlying stations likeKelenföld. Of the three, the Southern is the most modern but the Eastern and the Western are more decorative and architecturally interesting.
Other important railway stations countrywide includeSzolnok (the most important railway intersection outside Budapest),Tiszai Railway Station inMiskolc and the stations ofPécs,Győr,Debrecen,Szeged andSzékesfehérvár.
The only city with anunderground railway system isBudapest with itsMetro.
In Budapest there is also asuburban rail service in and around the city, operated under the nameHÉV.
There are 43-45 airports in Hungary, including smaller, unpaved airports, too. The five international airports areBudapest-Liszt Ferenc,Debrecen Airport,Hévíz–Balaton International Airport (previouslySármellék, also called FlyBalaton for its proximity toLake Balaton, Hungary's number one tourist attraction),Győr-Pér andPécs-Pogány (as of 2015. there are no regular passenger flights from Győr-Pér and Pécs-Pogány).Malév Hungarian Airlines ceased operations in 2012.
Total: 20 (1999 est.)
Total: 27 (1999 est.)
List of airports in Hungary;The following are the largest airports in Hungary (In descending order for 2015):
Hungary has five heliports.[1]
1,373 km permanently navigable (1997)
The most important port isBudapest, the capital. Other important ones includeDunaújváros andBaja.
Ports on theDanube:
Ports on theTisza:
In the rest of the cities and towns local transport is provided byVolánbusz companies that also provide intercity bus lines.
TheBudapest Metro (Hungarian:Budapesti metró) is therapid transit system in theHungarian capitalBudapest. Its line 1 (opened in 1896) is the oldest electrified underground railway on theEuropean continent. Thesecond (red) line was opened in 1970,third (blue) line was opened in 1976, the newest line is thefourth (green), it was opened in 2014.
The busiest traditional city tram line in the world is still route 4/6 inBudapest, where 50-meter long trams run at 120 to 180 second intervals[2] at peak time and are usually packed with people. A part of this route is the same as where electric trams made their world first run in 1887. Since the 2000s, the Budapest tram network has been improved, by ordering new trams (Combino Supra andCAF Urbos 3) as well as extending some lines (such as line 1 to Kelenföld railway station).
Cities with tram lines[edit]
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There were some towns, wherenarrow-gauge railways were used as tram lines orinterurban lines (for example:Sárospatak,Sátoraljaújhely,Békéscsaba,Békés,Cegléd). These lines were closed in the 1970s.
Trolleybuses can be found in three cities:Budapest,Debrecen andSzeged.