The Austrian traffic club (VCÖ) has once again named vienna’s Westbahnhof train station Austria’s number one station. For the second year in a row the station was named Austria’s best station. Linz Station came number two on the list. Most improved prize went to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof. The least popular were the stations Attnang-Puchheim, Bregenz and […]
Following in the footsteps of Car2Go and Carsharing.at a new car sharing operator has opened in Vienna. Flinkster, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, has opened its Vienna headquarters at Vienna’s Westbahnhof Train Station. Further locations in 18 other districts of Vienna are set to follow. The basic price for rental is 1 Euro per hour […]
Drink-drivers, speeders and drivers who routinely forget to wear their seatbelt are mostly men, statistics from the Austrian traffic club reveal. According to the research, women in Burgenland (eastern Austria) are much safer on the road than men. Indeed, women are generally three times safer than men on the road. Traffic club (Verkehrsclub Österreich, VCÖ) […]
Traffic researchers and motorists’ associations are at odds over how to react to rising fuel prices. Investigations by car club Arbö show that the average price for one litre of diesel fuel reached a four-year record last Monday at 1.397 Euros. The price for petrol shot up too, according to the association. Arbö and ÖAMTC, […]
Austrians acquired less fuel last year, according to a traffic research organisation. The Austria Traffic Club (VCÖ) said yesterday (Sun) around 9.6 billion litres of petrol were sold in 2011, down from 9.7 billion litres in the previous year. An all-time record was achieved in 2005 when 10.2 billion litres were sold across the country, […]
Vienna has one of the most popular public transport services in Europe. The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) said yesterday (Thurs) that it investigated 15 cities all over the continent to determine the shares public transport took. The Austrian capital ranked fourth with a stake of 36 per cent. Czech capital Prague and Madrid in Spain […]
Austrians took the train less often last year, new figures reveal. The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Fri) that residents of the Alpine country covered 1,270 kilometres (km) by train in 2010, down from 1,297 km in the year before. This figure puts Austrians into a leading position in Europe. Only people living in […]
A Dutch biker died after falling down a 30-metre roadside embankment.The man was already dead when an ambulance reached the accident scene at a main road near Reutte in Tyrol yesterday (Thurs). Officials said today the 51-year-old may have missed that the road was taking a bend to the left after a tunnel. They did […]
Bikers are nearly 20 times more likely to die than people who drive cars, according to a traffic research and safety awareness organisation.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Mon) motorcyclists face a 19 times higher risk of being killed in accidents than car drivers. It explained that, for instance, people are 40 times more […]
A district in Lower Austria has been identified as the area with the highest likeliness of fatal car crashes.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Thurs) that 2.7 fatalities per 10,000 residents occurred in the district of Scheibbs. This rate makes the region the most dangerous individual traffic zone of the country ahead of Reutte […]