Transport in Hungary


Transport in Hungary relies on several main modes, including transport by road, rail, air and water.

Roads

Hungary has a total of of public roads, of which are paved ; and are unpaved :
Hungarian road categories are as follows:
Hungarian motorways and expressways are part of the national road network. As of October 2016, there are of controlled-access highways.
Motorways in Hungary:
M1 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M6 | M7 | M8 | M15 | M19 | M30 | M31 | M35 | M43 | M60
Expressways in Hungary:
M0 | M2 | M9 | M51 |
M70 | M85 | M86
New motorway sections are being added to the existing network, which already connects many major economically important cities to the capital.

Bus transport

Bus transport between municipalities was provided by Volán Companies, twenty-four bus companies founded in 1970 and named after the regions they served. They also provided local transport in cities and towns that did not have their own public transport company, and operated bus lines in cities where the local company operated only tram and trolley bus lines. In early 2015 the 24 companies were organized into seven regional companies.

Railways

Note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway between Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurt, a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria.
In Budapest, the three main railway stations are the Eastern, Western and Southern, with other outlying stations like Kelenföld. Of the three, the Southern is the most modern but the Eastern and the Western are more decorative and architecturally interesting.
Other important railway stations countrywide include Szolnok, Tiszai Railway Station in Miskolc and the stations of Pécs, Győr, Debrecen, Szeged and Székesfehérvár.
The only city with an underground railway system is Budapest with its Metro.
In Budapest there is also a suburban rail service in and around the city, operated under the name HÉV.

Rail system

There are 43-45 airports in Hungary, including smaller, unpaved airports, too. The five international airports are Budapest-Liszt Ferenc, Debrecen Airport, Hévíz–Balaton International Airport, Győr-Pér and Pécs-Pogány. Malév Hungarian Airlines ceased operations in 2012.
;Airports with paved runways:
Total: 20
;Airports with unpaved runways
Total: 27
The following are the largest airports in Hungary :
Hungary has five heliports.

Waterways

1,373 km permanently navigable

Ports and harbors

The most important port is Budapest, the capital. Other important ones include Dunaújváros and Baja.
Ports on the Danube:
Ports on the Tisza:

Transport companies of cities

In the rest of the cities and towns local transport is provided by Volánbusz companies that also provide intercity bus lines.

Metro

The Budapest Metro is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest. Its line 1 is the oldest electrified underground railway on the European continent. The second line was opened in 1970, third line was opened in 1976, the newest line is the fourth, it was opened in 2014.

Trams

The busiest traditional city tram line in the world is still route 4/6 in Budapest, where 50-meter long trams run at 120 to 180 second intervals at peak time and are usually packed with people. A part of this route is the same as where electric trams made their world first run in 1887. Since the 2000s, the Budapest tram network has been improved, by ordering new trams as well as extending some lines.

Cities with tram lines



There were some towns, where narrow gauge railways were used as tram lines or interurban lines. These lines were closed in the 1970s.

Trolleybus

Trolleybuses can be found in three cities: Budapest, Debrecen and Szeged.

Pipelines