Kassel’s tram-train connections help city flourish

Kassel has emerged as the city with the most dynamic economy in Germany today, and its transport approach of an expanding tram-train network has really helped.

Helmut Holzapfel
16 May 2013
Kassel’s high quality transport system includes both the Regiotram services running on regional rail lines connected to the city centre along with the conventional tramway lines
Kassel’s high quality transport system includes both the Regiotram services running on regional rail lines connected to the city centre along with the conventional tramway lines

 

Kassel is a German city of 200,000 people, lying 150 kilometres north of Frankfurt and just over an hour away on the high-speed Deutsche Bahn ICE train from Frankfurt Airport station. In a league table of German cities ranked by economic development, conducted by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research and published in the magazine Wirtschaftswoche (Economic Weekly), Kassel has emerged as the most dynamic place in the entire country.

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