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Vienna serves as a model for Belgrade underground

The election in August 2008 of Dragan Đilas as Mayor of Belgrade (approx. 1.5 inhabitants plus several hundred thousand more in the environs) marked the start of a new era for public transport more...

Vienna’s public transport tops in European test

Vienna heads the European public transport league together with Helsinki and Munich. This is the result of a survey carried out by 16 European motoring clubs. Munich emerged as the winner with the only “very good” rating
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Wiener Linien approach confirmed by Austrian Traffic Club survey

Only in Vienna can public transport easily hold its own with the motor car: it is faster than car travel on many routes, and can reach the city centre in less than 30 minutes more...

E-mobility without loss of comfort

In collaboration with Vienna Energy, the City of Vienna has taken another step towards environmentally friendly mobility more...

Vienna Lines a significant economic factor

Vienna Lines recently presented its investment programme for the year 2010. The mainstay will once again be the expansion of the underground network more...

Schengen and the Iron Curtain: rail travel between Vienna and Prague

Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, passengers travelling by rail between Austria and the Czech Republic get a very different impression more...

České Budějovice Airport: opportunity for an entire region

During the last few days, work started on rebuilding the regional airport of České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. In the future, this airport previously used primarily by light aircraft is destined to serve passenger aircraft
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170 years Vienna-Brno by rail

The first trains travelled on the railway line between Vienna and the Moravian capital of Brno – a distance of 145 kilometres – on 7 July 1839 more...

Major Infrastructure Project in Sofia

The ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the underground railway in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia took place in 1978, over 30 years ago. However, construction proceeded at a slow pace more...

Everything spick and span

In November 09 Vienna Lines is starting a new clean-up campaign on Vienna’s public transport under the motto “Get lost with your trash!” more...