Transit traffic in Tyrol: With clean trucks, the load remains high!

Transit traffic in Tyrol: With clean trucks, the load remains high!

A current survey of 5,000 truck drivers: Inside in Tyrol, the transit traffic between north and south is still very important. According to the analysis, which was carried out at the Kundl and Radfeld checkpoints on the Inntal Autobahn in autumn 2024, 57 percent of heavy vehicles account for transit trips. This proportion is identical to the results from 2021. Tyrol remains an important corridor for the transport of goods between Germany and Italy.

The investigation has also shown that about a quarter of truck trips are transports that start or end in Tyrol. Only 12 percent of the trips move exclusively within Austria. This underlines the role of Tyrol within the European transport network. Despite strict regulations and high control density, which are responsible for one of the most modern truck fleets in Europe, the number of truck trips has not reduced.

sustainability and technical standards

The environmental data is promising: 99.8 percent of trucks correspond to the strict euro class 6, the highest exhaust gas standard. The average age of the truck is only 3.3 years. The introduction of driving bans for older vehicles makes a decisive contribution to this positive development. Despite the high proportion of modern vehicles, the traffic load in Tyrol remains a daily challenge.

The average load per truck is 13.2 tons, with the main transport goods being food and luxury food (20%), collection goods (8%) as well as chemical products and plastics (7%). A gratifying aspect is that only 11 percent of the truck are on the road, this ratio is even less than 3 percent when transit trips. This indicates that the efficiency in goods transport is relatively high.

traffic load at night

Especially in the night hours that go from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., it is striking that around 7 percent of the total traffic on Tyrol's highways on trucks. Disrupted goods dominate under the night trips, which make up 38 percent of the transported loads, followed by packages with 13 percent. A night driving ban could reduce the number of journeys, but due to exceptions to perishable goods, the traffic load remains high at night.

The challenges in front of which Tyrol is facing remain significant. Without Europe -wide solutions to relocate goods transport to the rail, the high traffic load on the streets will continue to exist. A solution to this persistent pressure is urgently required to improve the quality of life of the residents and to minimize the ecological footprint of the transit traffic. In addition, the development of sustainable traffic concepts is an important step into the future.