Traveling by long-distance buses in Austria is one of the central modes of transport in national and international long-distance travel, along with the railways, motorized individual transport and air traffic.
In addition to the long-standing travel options with the buses of the Europe-wide merger of the Eurolines Group, long-distance bus transport has been gaining in importance since the beginning of the 2010s.
In 2017, there are already connections to long-distance bus services at many stops in major cities and in some areas also in the countryside.
In 2007 and 2008, the construction of two long-distance bus stations began in Vienna, the Bus terminal Vienna as well as the Vienna International Bus Terminal (VIB)
Traffic Company
- Dr. Richard Transport Company, Dr. Richard Linien GmbH & Co KG, Stromstrasse 11, 1200 Vienna. Tel.: 43 (0) 1 33 100, Fax: 43 (0) 1 33 100 159, Email: [email protected]. The Dr. Richard Verkehrsbetriebe offers two long-distance bus lines in cooperation with Flixbus, these are line 096 (Graz - Vienna) and X96 (Graz - Vienna-Schwechat airport).
- Eurobus (Swiss-Express), Swimming pool street 1, CH-5210 Windisch. Tel.: 41(0) 848 000 212, Email: [email protected].
Eurobus is a Swiss long-distance bus company and part of the Knecht Holding. It can include pure long-distance bus tickets to and from Austria as well as complete trips can be booked. Individual bookings are possible. - euroLines, Am Römerhof 17, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main. Tel.: 49(0)6196 2078-501, Email: [email protected].
Eurolines is a Europe-wide association of long-distance bus operators.twitter url usedyoutube url used - Flixbus (FlixMobility GmbH), Birketweg 33, D-80639 Munich. Tel.: 43(0)720 116 247, Email: [email protected].
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The buses
In long-distance bus services, coaches are used that have luggage loading areas and storage space for hand luggage above the seats, as well as closable curtains on all seats, toilets, WiFi, 230-volt sockets on the seats and, in some cases, hot drinks machines and the sale of snacks and cold drinks by the drivers.
Stops / bus stations
While the equipment of the long-distance bus stops is usually very simple, similar to the stops of the city and regional buses, due to the presence of the basic equipment such as a stop sign, timetables and seating as well as weather shelters, the equipment of the bus stations, as with the Vienna International Bus Terminal, is significantly better, The bus stations mostly have customer centers of the long-distance bus companies, public toilets, luggage lockers, heated waiting rooms, electronic departure boards with allocation of the respective bus bar, as well as fast food restaurants and / or drinks or snack machines.
Vienna
- 1 Vienna International Bus Terminal (U3 Erdberg, largest long-distance bus station in Vienna, national and international connections)
- 2 Bus terminal Vienna (U2 stadium, the second largest long-distance bus station in Vienna, national and international connections)
- 3 Westbahnhof long-distance bus stop(U3, U6 Westbahnhof)
- 4 Long-distance bus stop Hauptbahnhof (U1 Südtiroler Platz / Hauptbahnhof)
- Gumpendorfer Straße stop (U6 Gumpendorfer Straße)
- Long-distance bus station Airport Wien-Schwechat (Location: Schwechat, Lower Austria,S-Bahn, Railjet Airport Vienna)
In addition to long-distance buses, Vienna has a dense network of airport shuttle buses, the vehicles of which are similar to long-distance buses, but are not used as long-distance buses due to the short distance between Vienna and Vienna Airport, but often depart from the same stations.
Salzburg
- Stop at Salzburg-Linienstrasse, on the north side of the Central station
Linz
- bus stop Linz Central Station (Long-distance bus)
- Industriezeile 84 stop
innsbruck
- Stop at Insbruck Hauptbahnhof (long-distance bus)
Klagenfurt
- Stop Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof (long-distance bus)
Cooperation for long-distance bus and train
Along the Westbahn railway line Flixbus cooperates with the private long-distance train Westbahn Ges.m.b.Hso that tickets include can be sold via the Flixbus homepage. There are also cooperations for trips with the Westbahn to Salzburg Hbf, so that connecting trips to Munich can be reserved and organized with the FlixMobility buses.
