D�sseldorf International Airport, also referred to as Rhein-Ruhr Airport, is located eight kilometres (5 mi) from the city centre and can easily be reached by train or the S-Bahn urban railway. There is a long-distance train station served by regional and national services, which is linked to the airport by the SkyTrain, an automatic people mover. Another station situated under the terminal building carries the S-Bahn line (S11) to D�sseldorf Hbf, the city's central station and to Cologne as well as a few selected night services.
After Frankfurt and Munich, D�sseldorf International is Germany's third largest commercial airport, with 18.6 million passengers annually. The airport offers 180 destinations on 4 continents, and is served by 70 airlines. The airport buildings were partly destroyed by a devastating fire caused by welding works in 1996, killing 17 people. It was completely rebuilt and the Skytrain installed.
The city is a major hub in the Deutsche Bahn (DB) railway network. More than 1,000 trains stop in D�sseldorf daily. D�sseldorf Hauptbahnhof at Konrad-Adenauer-Platz is located in D�sseldorf-Stadtmitte. Several Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn lines connect D�sseldorf to other cities of Rhine-Ruhr. Local D�sseldorf Stra�enbahn and light rail D�sseldorf Stadtbahn traffic, as well as local bus traffic, is carried out by the city-owned Rheinbahn which operates within the VRR public transport system. The light rail system also serves neighbouring cities and is partially operated underground.
The Central Station and the Airport Station (Flughafen-Bahnhof) are connected to the national and European high-speed systems (Intercity/Eurocity, IC/EC and InterCityExpress).
North Rhine-Westphalia has the densest network of autobahns in Germany and D�sseldorf is directly accessible via the A3, A44, A46, A52, A57, A59 and A524
