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"Perspectives 2011" - Sustainability and Annual Report (pdf)

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Introduction Company profile <strong>and</strong> strategyService portfolio Communication <strong>and</strong> social responsibilityOnce built, the satellite will help to uphold <strong>and</strong> safeguardMunich Airport’s acknowledged high qualityst<strong>and</strong>ards as a transfer hub, even with the anticipatedfuture growth in traffic, <strong>and</strong> further strengthenMunich’s role as a premium international gateway.The airport is also currently erecting a new 16,000-square-meter cargo h<strong>and</strong>ling facility, which is due toopen in the summer of 2012.Planned construction <strong>and</strong> infrastructureprojectsThe grant of zoning approval for a third runway atMunich Airport means that Flughafen MünchenGmbH is now committed to providing €100 million infunding for local infrastructure projects in surroundingcommunities. Payouts are, however, contingentupon runway construction actually going ahead.Ten million euros from the fund were already allocatedto two infrastructure projects in Erding <strong>and</strong>Freising in 2008.Enhanced, more efficient l<strong>and</strong>-side transport connectionsare of major importance to Flughafen MünchenGmbH’s ability to sustain its future growth.Quality road <strong>and</strong> rail network access is both a crucialfactor to Munich Airport’s future as an internationaltransport hub <strong>and</strong> a considerable benefit to the air -port’s home region.Flughafen München GmbH is therefore pushing hardfor improvements to l<strong>and</strong>side access, particularlyby rail, not least because moving traffic off the roadnetwork <strong>and</strong> onto rail services helps to avoid harmfulemissions.An expert review conducted in November 2009 onbehalf of the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs,Infrastructure, Transport <strong>and</strong> Technology into how toimprove Munich Airport’s rail access marked a majoradvance in connection with expansion plans for therail infrastructure in <strong>and</strong> around Munich.A large proportion of our passenger base alreadytravels to Munich Airport on public transport: In 2011,45 percent of passengers used local rapid transitrail <strong>and</strong> bus services. However, significantly morepassengers <strong>and</strong> airport workers would switch totraveling by rail if a through connection serving thearea to the east of Munich Airport were available <strong>and</strong>if the airport were integrated into the mainline railnetwork.Access from northeast <strong>and</strong> southeast Bavaria couldbe improved by completing the Neufahrn branch line,the Erding circular rail link <strong>and</strong> the Walpertskirchenbranch line. We expect work on the Neufahrn branchline to begin in 2013 <strong>and</strong> to finish in 2016.In the short term, the introduction of a much fasterservice between the airport <strong>and</strong> Munich’s CentralStation has the highest priority. In the longer term,the airport additionally needs to link up to the mainlineroute from Munich to Mühldorf, Freilassing <strong>and</strong>Salzburg; this will also connect the airport to the EUTrans-European Networks’ west-to-east rail arteryrunning from Paris, through Munich <strong>and</strong> Vienna, toBratislava.Munich Airport’s goal of connecting aviation withhigh-speed transport on the ground is not just ofmajor importance at the regional level, it is alsoconsistent <strong>and</strong> compatible with wider national <strong>and</strong>European transport policy objectives.126

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