Motorway intersection Ulm / Elchingen

Motorway intersection Ulm / Elchingen
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	Bavaria
Coordinates:	48 ° 27 '54 "  N , 10 ° 6' 56"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '54 "  N , 10 ° 6' 56"  E
Height:	455  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Shamrock with semi-direct ramp
Bridges:	2 (motorway) / 9 (other)

The motorway junction Ulm / Elchingen (abbreviation: AK Ulm / Elchingen ; short form: Kreuz Ulm / Elchingen ) is a motorway junction in Bavaria near Neu-Ulm . This is where the federal autobahn 8 ( Saarland - Stuttgart - Bad Reichenhall ) ( Europastraße 52 ) and the federal autobahn 7 ( Flensburg - Hanover - Kassel - Füssen ) ( Europastraße 43 ) intersect .

geography

The cross is in the area of ​​the municipality of Elchingen . The surrounding towns and communities are Nersingen , Leipheim and Langenau . It is located about 60 km west of Augsburg , about 55 km north of Memmingen and about 10 km northeast of Ulm . As an important traffic junction , it connects the A 7 ( Denmark - Austria / Innsbruck ) with the A 8 ( Luxembourg / Belgium - Austria / Salzburg ).

The Ulm / Elchingen motorway junction has junction number 120 on the A 7 and number 65 on the A 8.

State of development

The A 8 has five lanes to the west and six lanes to the east. The A 7 has four lanes. The two semi-direct ramps are designed with two lanes, all the remaining crossings are single lanes.

The cross is laid out in the shape of a clover.

Traffic volume

Around 110,000 vehicles pass the cross every day.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume	Share of heavy goods traffic
AS Langenau (A 7)	AK Ulm / Elchingen	45,900	15.7%
AK Ulm / Elchingen	AS Nersingen (A 7)	52,300	12.8%
AS Oberelchingen (A 8)	AK Ulm / Elchingen	65,800	16.4%
AK Ulm / Elchingen	AS Leipheim (A 8)	55,000	17.3%

Individual evidence

1. ^ AK Ulm / Elchingen. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2017 .  (PDF file)