Dortmund-West motorway junction

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Dortmund-West motorway junction
A40 A45
map
Overview map of the Dortmund-West motorway junction
location
Country: Germany
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '52 "  N , 7 ° 23' 8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '52 "  N , 7 ° 23' 8"  E
Height: 89  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Shamrock
Bridges: 1 (motorway) / 3 (other)
The A 40 in front of the motorway junction during the Ruhrschnellweg still life.
The A 40 in front of the motorway junction during
the Ruhrschnellweg still life .

The Dortmund-West motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Dortmund-West; short form: Dortmund-West junction ) is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It connects the federal motorway 40 (Ruhrschnellweg) with the A 45 ( Dortmund  - Frankfurt am Main ).

geography

The motorway junction is located in the city of Dortmund in the district of Lütgendortmund . The closest districts are Marten , Dorstfeld , Kley and Oespel . It is located around 8 km west of Dortmund city center and around 13 km east of Bochum .

The Dortmund-West motorway junction has junction number 42 on the A 40 and number 5 on the A 45.

Design and state of development

The A 40 has four lanes to the west and six lanes to the east. The A 45 has five lanes, with three lanes to the south and two to the north. The indirect connection ramps are single-lane, the direct two-lane.

The cross was laid out as a shamrock .

Until 2010, the motorway junction also connected Bundesstraße 1 to the two motorways. Since this was expanded as a continuation of the A 40 as a motorway and upgraded, the B 1 is no longer at the Dortmund-West motorway junction.

Traffic volume

The cross is used by around 147,000 vehicles every day.

From To Average
daily traffic volume
Share of heavy goods traffic
AS Dortmund-Kley (A 40) AK Dortmund-West 77,500 7.2%
AK Dortmund-West AS Dortmund-Barop (A 40) 85,800 5.1%
AS Dortmund-Hafen (A 45) AK Dortmund-West 70,700 8.3%
AK Dortmund-West AS Dortmund- Eichlinghofen (A 45) 60,100 9.3%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AK Dortmund-West. (No longer available online.) Autobahn intersections & Autobahn triangles in Germany, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 9, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.autobahnkreuze-online.de  
  2. Manual traffic census BAB 2015. (PDF) BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on September 14, 2017 .