Inntal Autobahn
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The Inntal Autobahn A 12 is a 153 kilometer long motorway in the Austrian state of Tyrol and part of the European roads E45 and E60 .
It begins after the German federal autobahn 93 at the German-Austrian border near Kiefersfelden / Kufstein and leads via Innsbruck , where there is a connection to the Brenner autobahn A 13, to Zams , where it turns into the Arlberg expressway S16. It runs parallel to the Inn and leads through the Inntal air restoration area .
meaning
The Kufstein – Innsbruck route, together with the Brenner motorway and the German A 93 and A 8, form the traffic axis from Munich over the Alps to Verona and Modena . In addition, the A 12 is part of Austria's most important east-west axis, which together with the West A1 motorway, the Deutsches Eck and the Arlberg expressway connects Vienna via Salzburg with Tyrol and Vorarlberg .
history
As early as 1939 there were plans for a Reichsautobahn through the Inn - and Wipptal to the Brenner . As part of the Berlin - Rome connection, the route was designed for transalpine traffic regardless of local needs. The planned route did not run on the valley floor, but on the low mountain range terraces , without connection to the industrial centers around Wörgl and Innsbruck and without a connection to the Upper Inn Valley . However, construction never began.
After the Second World War , there was initially no need for a motorway in Tyrol. Since the traffic over the Brenner increased sharply in the 1950s, there were new plans for a motorway from 1957. It now ran on the valley floor of the Inn Valley and parallel to Tiroler Straße , for which the Inn had to be relocated in several places. In autumn 1965 construction began on the sections around Kufstein and from Innsbruck-Ost to Volders. The east branch of the Inntal Autobahn from Kufstein to the Innsbruck- Amras junction was opened in stages between 1968 and 1972, the junctions in Innsbruck in the 1970s. The first section of the western branch was a roadway from Innsbruck to Zirl-Ost for the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 as a right bank federal road between Innsbruck and Zirl ; the rest of the road was not started until the 1970s. In 1980 the Autobahn went to Telfs, in 1990 the Roppener Tunnel closed the last gap.
In July 1990 the Wildbichler Bridge had to be closed for a long time because a bridge pier in the Inn River sagged. During this time, all motorway and main road traffic had to be diverted through the Kufstein city center , and the Lower Inn Valley Railway of the ÖBB was temporarily closed.
On May 1, 2001, there was a serious bus accident on the A 12 near Vomp . An articulated bus skidded due to ruts , overturned, broke through the central barrier and remained lying across the road. Eight inmates were killed and 51 injured, some seriously. More than 330 rescue workers were deployed during the difficult rescue work. Both directions of travel were closed for several hours.
In August 2005, due to an extreme flood, a section of the A 12 from the Bavarian-Austrian border to Kramsach , more than 30 kilometers long, was closed because the "Kufstein Bridge" near Kufstein / Kiefersfelden was feared to collapse due to undercutting. After a few days, however, this danger could not be confirmed and the ban was lifted again.
The A 12 is the first motorway in Austria to be equipped with traffic telematics . With these overhead displays, a wide variety of messages and speed restrictions can be passed on to road users as required (road conditions, traffic volume, weather , etc.). B. the "100 km / h" restriction according to the Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft (IG-L) , which is controlled in sections.
Sectoral driving ban
LGBL 49/2009 issued the sectoral driving ban . It was a ban on heavy transport with certain goods between Langkampfen and Zirl . It was derived from the Immissionsschutzgesetz - Luft and was intended to restrict heavy traffic in order to improve air quality. The ban failed before the ECJ and was consequently repealed with LGBL 4/2012.
Departure ban
In 2019, the Tyrolean state government issued a ban on travelers heading for a supraregional destination from leaving the motorway at certain exits near Kufstein and between Hall and Zirl at certain times during the main tourist traffic ( departure block ) and blocked certain roads for through traffic. The aim of the measure is to avoid traffic congestion due to alternative traffic in the event of traffic jams, which have repeatedly endangered the security of supply for the neighboring communities.
Open to traffic
| date | Motorway section | Length (km) |
|---|---|---|
| July 26, 1968 | State border D / A - ASt Kufstein Süd | 5.696 |
| 5th Sep 1968 | ASt Innsbruck Ost - Knot Innsbruck-Amras (A 13) | 1.544 |
| Dec 22, 1968 | Volders - ASt Innsbruck Ost | 9.294 |
| Nov 16, 1969 | Weer - Volders | 8,500 |
| Sep 18 1970 | HASt Jenbach - Weer | 13,000 |
| Dec 18, 1970 | ASt Wiesing - HASt Jenbach | 2,984 |
| Aug 4, 1972 | ASt Kufstein Süd - ASt Wiesing | 33.782 |
| June 26, 1975 | Knock Innsbruck-Wilten (A 13) - ASt Innsbruck West | 1.041 |
| June 26, 1975 | ASt Innsbruck West - ASt Zirl Ost (right RFB ) | 9,061 |
| Dec 17, 1975 | ASt Innsbruck West - ASt Zirl Ost (left RFB) | |
| Nov 15, 1976 | ASt Zirl Ost - Dirschenbach | 5.780 |
| Dec 17, 1977 | Knot Innsbruck-Amras (A 13) - Knot Innsbruck-Wilten (A 13) | 2.725 |
| Dec 15, 1978 | Dirschenbach - Lengenberg (right RFB) | 6,200 |
| July 12, 1979 | Dirschenbach - Lengenberg (left RFB) | |
| June 21, 1980 | Lengenberg - ASt Telfs West | 4.723 |
| 5th July 1984 | HASt Schönwies - Kn Oberinntal | 4,180 |
| 5th July 1985 | ASt Telfs West - ASt Mötz | 8,700 |
| Dec 20, 1985 | ASt Imst-Au - ASt Mils | 3.318 |
| Apr 1, 1986 | Kn Oberinntal - ASt Zams (S 16) | 1,100 |
| July 1, 1986 | ASt Mötz - ASt Ötztal | 10.120 |
| Nov 7, 1986 | ASt Ötztal - Roppen | 2.960 |
| March 4, 1988 | ASt Mils - HASt Schönwies | 3.320 |
| July 6, 1990 | Roppen - ASt Imst-Au | 7.472 |
| June 24, 2000 | Kn Oberinntal - ASt Fließ | 7,820 |
expansion
At the beginning of December 2006, the controversial Innsbruck-Mitte junction was opened; it enables the villages of the eastern low mountain range to have a faster connection to the motorway.
On December 17, 2010, the two-tube operation of the Roppen tunnel and the north tube of the Amras containment were released, and at the beginning of December 2011 the south tube was also completed.
Current expansion projects concern the five kilometer long feeder with the Tschirgant tunnel to the Fernpass section and a partial three-lane expansion in each direction of travel of the heavily polluted eastern branch in the Lower Inn Valley. However, both measures are controversial.
toll
An exception to the general toll requirement on motorways existed between the state border and the Kufstein-Süd junction until November 30, 2013. From December 15, 2019, this section will again be exempt from the time-dependent toll requirement.
Checkpoints
In 2000, the Kundl control point in the direction of Innsbruck was opened as the first control point in Austria. It was planned as a temporary measure, but was expanded a year later and again expanded by 2.1 million euros in 2011/12. The 11,000 square meter control station area now has a. via a modern traffic management system. The measuring system and electrical equipment are state-of-the-art . The modern diversion systems with five overhead signposts on the Inntal Autobahn ensure that the control point is activated by the police and that the diversion of certain vehicle categories is announced in good time.
Due to the positive effects on traffic safety since the first control point went into operation, the Tyrolean state parliament decided in 2003 to implement the Tyrolean control point concept and in 2004 concluded a contract with ASFINAG to set up the Radfeld control point. Construction of the EUR 4.6 million project began in August 2004 and was completed in spring 2005.
The Radfeld control center was opened on April 25, 2005. This means that both directions of travel on the A 12 can be controlled. The Radfeld control center and its premises are available to the police.
The diversion from the A 12 to the respective control point has been integrated into the traffic control system; automatic traffic jam detection is just as possible as an adapted speed display.
The tasks of the control centers mainly include the control of trucks and buses with regard to compliance with the permitted maximum weights, social and road legal regulations, the technical condition of the vehicles and the correct declaration and labeling of dangerous goods transports. In the case of controls of heavy traffic but also of passenger traffic, there are additional alcohol controls and controls of the safety devices (seat belts, child safety devices).
literature
- Federal Ministry for Buildings and Technology and the State of Tyrol (Ed.): Inntal-Autobahn , Innsbruck 1973.
- Bernd Kreuzer: The construction of the motorways and expressways in Austria. In: The motorway network in Austria. 30 years of ASFINAG. Vienna 2012, pp. 11–120. ( PDF; 7.6 MB )
Web links
- ASFINAG permanent counting stations (motorways and expressways in Austria)
- Inntal Autobahn on motorways-exitlists.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kundl control point. Federal Police , archived from the original on November 6, 2012 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Statistics Road & Traffic. (PDF file; 4.4 MB) Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology , January 2014, accessed on May 21, 2014 .
- ↑ STATE LAW FOR TYROL STÜCK 22 / YEAR 2009. (PDF) In: ris.bka.gv.at. Pp. 174f , accessed March 15, 2016 .
- ↑ STATE LAW FOR TYROL STÜCK 1 / YEAR 2012. (PDF) In: ris.bka.gv.at. P. 3 , accessed March 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Truck driving bans - A12 Inntalautobahn (Tyrol) - WKO.at. In: wko.at. WKO , accessed on March 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Tyrol: More driving bans this weekend | BR24. In: br.de. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ^ Controversy over driving bans in Tyrol: "an absurdity". In: sueddeutsche.de. June 21, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Driving bans in Austria: Tyrol closes country roads - ADAC. In: adac.de. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal Road Toll Act 2002 (7 / A) , accessed on November 13, 2019
- ↑ A12 Road safety Converted traffic control point Kundl opened in Tyrol - Article No. 8272 from Friday, March 16, 2012. Asfinag, accessed on May 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Radfeld control point. State of Tyrol, accessed on May 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Tasks of control bodies. State of Tyrol, accessed on May 21, 2014 .
- Expansion overview tunnel autobahns from BMVIT Dept. IV / ST2 (PDF, 130 kB), accessed June 28, 2015
