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Infrastructure
Health systems
Freiburg has a total of xx hospitals. The largest hospital is the University Medical Center Freiburg (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg) with roughly 1,600 beds.
In 2011 there were 89,9 general practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants in the city, which places Freiburg on the second place in Germany. There is also a very good rate for other medical professions.[1]
Transport
Freiburg is know for it's environmentally-friendly attitude towards transport and a comparably low amount of car traffic.
The environmentally-friendly approach to mobility has its root in a 1969 urban transport policy.[2] In 1973, Freiburg was one of the first German cities to create an extensive pedestrian zone in the town center. At the same time it was decided that an extensive network of bicycle lanes would be created.[3]
Public transportation
The Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg (RVF) is the regional transport association. Public transport in Freiburg is mainly provided by the city-owned VAG Freiburg. Public transportion is centered around four tram lines and feeder buses. The VAG operates 21 bus routes and other companies offer inner-city and regional bus services.
- Rail
Freiburg Central Station is currently served by three railway lines:
- Rheintalbahn, the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway
- Höllentalbahn, from Freiburg to Donaueschingen
- Breisacher Bahn, the German part of the Freiburg-Colmar railway
Freiburg Central Station is one of eight Category 2 stations in Baden-Württemberg, meaning it is a important junction for long-distance traffic with regular ICE service. It is used by 65,000 people daily.
- Bus
- Test
Gaps in the rail network are filled by more than 600 bus routes, plied by single-deck, two-, three- and four-axle diesel buses. Hamburg has no trams or trolley-buses, but has hydrogen-fueled buses operating pilot services. The buses run frequently during working hours, with some buses on some routes arriving as often as every 2 minutes. In suburban areas and on special weekday night lines the intervals can be 30 minutes or longer.
- Aviation
Freiburg is served by EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, in France, close to the borders of both Germany and Switzerland. Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport (Baden Airpark) is approximately 100 km north of Freiburg and is also served by several airlines.
Freiburg has it's own inner-city airfield next to the Messe. It is one of the oldest aerodromes in Germany and is used for private and commercial purposes.
Utilities
Electricity for Hamburg and Northern Germany is provided by Vattenfall Europe, formerly the state-owned Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke. Vattenfall Europe operates three nuclear power plants near Hamburg: Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant, Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant and Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant.[4] All are scheduled to be taken out of service.[5] There are also the coal-fired Wedel and Moorburg Power Stations, and the fuel-cell power plant in the HafenCity quarter. VERA Klärschlammverbrennung uses the biosolids of the Hamburg wastewater treatment plant; the Pumpspeicherwerk Geesthacht is a pump storage power plant and a biomass power station is Müllverwertung Borsigstraße.[citation needed]
- ^ Mauch, Uwe. "Freiburg: Versorgung: Freiburg hat zu viele niedergelassene Ärzte - badische-zeitung.de". Retrieved 2012-03-10.
- ^ "Freiburg - Green City: Sustainable Mobility". Retrieved 2012-03-11.
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http://www.freiburg.de/servlet/PB/show/1164829/16Verkehrspolitik.pdf. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
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- ^ Staff (2007-01-10), Nuclear Power in Germany: A Chronology, Deutsche Welle, retrieved 1008-09-25
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