Control point
A checkpoint , sometimes also called a checkpoint , is a fixed point on a traffic connection that is used to control passers-by, items and vehicles carried.
Checkpoints are particularly common in the military and the police.
Control posts in Germany
military
Four to around twenty soldiers or police officers are required to operate a checkpoint. It is often used in international peace missions. There are stationary checkpoints and so-called temporary checkpoints (CPT).
Cold War
Map with all coordinates of the During the Cold War until reunification , three checkpoints were set up in Germany to monitor border traffic:
- Checkpoint Alpha in Helmstedt Marienborn ( 52 ° 13 ′ 14 ″ N, 11 ° 3 ′ 16 ″ E )
- Checkpoint Bravo in Berlin ( 52 ° 24 ′ 59 ″ N, 13 ° 11 ′ 49 ″ E )
- Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin ( 52 ° 30 ′ 27 ″ N, 13 ° 23 ′ 25 ″ E )
This was controlled by the Allied military .
police
- The federal police carried out border controls at checkpoints .
- General checks are carried out at temporary and local control points, for example after drunk driving.
- After Strafprozessordnung be at judicially arranged checkpoints controls performed.
(Truck) checkpoints in Austria (traffic checkpoints)
history
In 2000, the Kundl control point on the Inntal Autobahn A 12 was opened as the first control point in Austria .
On June 25, 2015, the sixth control point was put into operation in Tyrol alone.
The following 13 control posts have been in operation across Austria since July 2015:
| No. | Highway | Directional lane | Control point |
|---|---|---|---|
| A 1 | West Highway | RFB Salzburg | Hague / Strengberg |
| A 2 | South highway | RFB Vienna | Völkermarkt / Haimburg |
| A 2 | South highway | RFB Italy | Ilzthal |
| A 4 | East highway | RFB Vienna | Bruck / Leitha |
| A 8 | Innkreis Autobahn | RFB Voralpenkreuz | Kematen South |
| A 9 | Pyhrn Autobahn | RFB Voralpenkreuz | Straß / Gersdorf |
| A 10 | Tauern Autobahn | RFB Villach | High Göll |
| A 10 | Tauern Autobahn | RFB Germany | Kellerberg |
| A 12 | Inntal Autobahn | RFB Innsbruck | Kundl |
| A 12 | Inntal Autobahn | RFB Innsbruck | Radfeld |
| A 13 | Brenner motorway | RFB Innsbruck | Brenner East |
| A 14 | Rheintal Autobahn | RFB Arlberg | Nüziders |
| A 23 | Southeast bypass | Node area | Kaisermühlen |
| Source: ASFINAG | |||
Three more checkpoints are to be added by 2020.
Mobile checkpoints
There are also mobile checkpoints. So z. B. since October 2017 on so-called dosing days (according to the dosing calendar ) on the A 12 Inntal motorway in the area of the Kufstein / Kiefersfelden border crossing on Austrian territory at the "Kufstein Nord" junction in the direction of Innsbruck from the police truck - block handling at a specially equipped mobile Control body carried out.
tasks
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).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ First truck control point in East Tyrol , ORF Tirol online, accessed on June 25, 2015
- ↑ Traffic control points at www.asfinag, at, accessed on September 17, 2015
- ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: State government decided on "permanent infrastructure for truck block handling" . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed June 11, 2018]).
- ^ Office of the Tyrolean state government: Flexible container is stationed at Kufstein North. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Tasks of control bodies. State of Tyrol, accessed on June 25, 2015 .