Road network

The Munich Metropolitan Region has a dense network of radial highways, which open up the whole region and connects it with their neighboring regions. Due to the proximity to the Brenner and Tauern passes through the alps, the Munich Metropolitan Region is also called as the "gateway to Italy".

The two axes Paris, Stuttgart, Augsburg, Munich, Rosenheim, Salzburg, Italy (A8) and Berlin, Nuremberg, Ingolstadt, Munich, Innsbruck, Italy (A9) are significant for the highway network. The importance of the third major transport corridor of Zurich, Lindau, Munich, Regensburg, Prague, Warsaw (A96/A93) increased sharply, since the Iron Curtain has been fallen down . The highway ring (A99) about Munich relieves the transport hub and the interregional traffic goes around the capital city of Bavaria.

Major expansion projects were completed in recent years or are currently being implemented. The expansion of the A94 from Munich to Mühldorf a. Inn, Passau, Linz and further to Vienna will be completed by the year 2018. The four-lane state roads B17 between Augsburg (A8) and Landsberg (A96) and B15 between Regensburg (A93), Landshut (A92) and Rosenheim (A8) are important linkages in the efficient road network.