Dortmund-West motorway junction
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Country: | Germany |
State : | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Coordinates: | 51 ° 29 '52 " N , 7 ° 23' 8" E |
Height: | 89 m above sea level NN |
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Design type: | Shamrock |
Bridges: | 1 (motorway) / 3 (other) |
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 |
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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
- ^ 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 archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. (PDF) BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on September 14, 2017 .