Oresund Bridge Øresundsbroen, Öresundsbron
Carries	4 lanes of European route E20 Double track Oresund Railway Line
Crosses	Oresund strait (The Sound)
Locale	Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden
Design	Cable-stayed bridge
Longest span	490 metres (1,608 ft)
Total length	7,845 metres (25,738 ft)
Width	23.5 metres (77.1 ft)
Clearance below	57 metres (187 ft)
AADT	13,602
Opening date	July 2, 2000
Toll	€ 32
Coordinates	55°34′31″N, 12°49′37″E

The Oresund Bridge (Danish Øresundsbroen, Swedish Öresundsbron, joint hybrid name Øresundsbron) is a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge across the Oresund strait. The bridge-tunnel is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and connects the two metropolitan areas of the Oresund Region: the Danish capital of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö. The international European route E20 runs across the bridge, as does the Oresund Railway Line. Image File history File links Oeresund_Bridge. ... From west to east: Shannon Airport - Limerick - Dublin . ... Oresund Railway (Swedish: Öresundbanan, Danish: Øresundbanen) is a railway between København in Denmark to Malmö in Sweden via the Oresund Bridge. ... Denmark (red) / south Sweden (yellow), connected with the Oresund Bridge. ... For other uses, see Copenhagen (disambiguation). ... Motto: FrÃ¥n arbetarstad till kunskapsstad (eng: From industrial city to knowledge city) Location of Malmö in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden Municipality Malmö Municipality County SkÃ¥ne Province Scania Charter 13th Century Government  - Mayor Illmar Reepalu Area  - City 335. ... A cable-stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more columns (normally referred to as towers or pylons), with cables supporting the bridge deck. ... Annual average daily traffic, abbrevated AADT, is a term used primarily in transportation planning and transportation engineering. ... July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... French 1912 drawing of typical elements of railways Railway tracks running through a railway station in North East England, UK A railway yard in Portland, Oregon. ... A log bridge in the French Alps near Vallorcine. ... Denmark (red) / south Sweden (yellow), connected with the Oresund Bridge. ... Aerial view of parallel trestles and one of four man-made islands which anchor tunnel portions of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia, longest in the world A bridge-tunnel is a water crossing facility which uses a combination of bridge and tunnel structures. ... A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ... The Oresund strait between Malmö and Copenhagen Copenhagen, with Parliament to the right and the former Stock Exchange to the left Helsingborg Malmö, with the Turning Torso skyscraper The Oresund Region (Øresundsregionen in Danish or Öresundsregionen in Swedish) is a transnational region in southern Scandinavia located by the shores of... For other uses, see Copenhagen (disambiguation). ... Motto: FrÃ¥n arbetarstad till kunskapsstad (eng: From industrial city to knowledge city) Location of Malmö in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden Municipality Malmö Municipality County SkÃ¥ne Province Scania Charter 13th Century Government  - Mayor Illmar Reepalu Area  - City 335. ... From west to east: Shannon Airport - Limerick - Dublin . ... Oresund Railway (Swedish: Öresundbanan, Danish: Øresundbanen) is a railway between København in Denmark to Malmö in Sweden via the Oresund Bridge. ...

Name

Satellite image of the Oresund Bridge.

In Sweden and Denmark the bridge is most often referred to as Öresundsbron or Øresundsbroen, respectively. The bridge company itself insists on Øresundsbron, a compromise between the two languages which would symbolise a common cultural identity of the region, the people becoming 'Oresund citizens' once the bridge was established. Since it is actually a bridge and a tunnel, it is sometimes more technically correct named the Oresund Link or Oresund Connection (Danish: Øresundsforbindelsen, Swedish: Öresundsförbindelsen). The Sound Bridge is occasionally heard, using the traditional English name of the strait. Image File history File links Oresund. ... Image File history File links Oresund. ...

History

View from Malmö

Construction began in 1995. The last section was constructed on August 14, 1999. Danish Heir Apparent Frederik and his Swedish counterpart Crown Princess Victoria met midway to celebrate its completion. The official inauguration took place on July 1, 2000, with Danish Queen Margrethe II, and her Swedish counterpart King Carl XVI Gustaf, presiding. The bridge was opened for traffic later that day. Before the inauguration 79,871 runners competed in a half distance marathon (Broloppet, the Bridge Run) from Amager (in Denmark) to Skåne (in Sweden) on June 12, 2000. Shot by de:Benutzer:Stern in 2002-07. ... Shot by de:Benutzer:Stern in 2002-07. ... Motto: FrÃ¥n arbetarstad till kunskapsstad (eng: From industrial city to knowledge city) Location of Malmö in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden Municipality Malmö Municipality County SkÃ¥ne Province Scania Charter 13th Century Government  - Mayor Illmar Reepalu Area  - City 335. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Contrasting with heir presumptive, an heir apparent is one who cannot be prevented from inheriting by the birth of any other person. ... Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (born Frederik André Henrik Christian on 26 May 1968 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the eldest son of Queen Margrethe II and her husband, Prince Consort Henrik. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, IPA: ) (born 16 April 1940) is the Queen regnant and head of state of Denmark. ... Carl Gustaf redirects here. ... Modern-day marathon runners Runners in ancient Greece. ... Amager is a Danish island in the Øresund. ... The Flag of SkÃ¥ne (also known as Scania in English) is the southernmost historical province (landskap) and County (Län) of Sweden. ...

View from Öresund

Initially the usage of the bridge was not as high as expected, which was generally attributed to the expense of crossing. 2005 and 2006, however, have seen a rapid increase in the volume of traffic on the bridge. This phenomenon may be due to Danes buying homes in Sweden and commuting to their work in Denmark, because the price of housing in Malmö is lower than in Copenhagen. As of 2006 a single car ride across the bridge costs DKK 235, SEK 290 or € 32 ($43.52 or £21.84) (however, discounts of up to 75% are available for regular users), and a train ride SEK 90. In 2004 almost 17 million people travelled over the bridge, 10.6 million in cars and 6.2 million by train. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2288x1712, 882 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Oresund Bridge Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2288x1712, 882 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Oresund Bridge Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Northern Öresund Oresund (Öresund in Swedish or Øresund in Danish) or The Sound, is the strait that separates Zealand from Scania, and thereby Denmark from Sweden. ... ISO 4217 Code DKK User(s) Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands 1 Inflation 1. ... ISO 4217 Code SEK User(s) Sweden Inflation 2. ... “EUR” redirects here. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... For details of notes and coins, see British coinage and British banknotes. ...

Features

The bridge has one of the longest cable-stayed main spans in the world at 490 metres (1,608 ft). The height of the highest pillar is 204 metres (669 ft). The total length of the bridge is 7,845 metres (25,738 ft), which is approximately half the distance between the Swedish and Danish landmasses, and its weight is 82,000 metric tons. The rest of the distance is spanned by the artificial island Peberholm (Pepper islet) (4,055 m), named as a counterpart to the already existing Saltholm islet, followed by a tunnel on the Danish side. The tunnel is 4,050 metres (13,287 ft) long, a 3,510 metre long buried undersea tunnel plus two 270-metre gate-tunnels. On the bridge, the two rail-tracks are beneath the four road lanes. The bridge has a vertical clearance of 57 metres (187 ft), although most boat traffic across Oresund still passes over the Drogden strait (where the tunnel lies). The bridge was designed by Arup. A cable-stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more columns (normally referred to as towers or pylons), with cables supporting the bridge deck. ... The metre or meter is a measure of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... A tonne (also called metric ton) is a non-SI unit of mass, accepted for use with SI, defined as: 1 tonne = 103 kg (= 106 g). ... Peberholm, (Swedish: Pepparholm) literally Pepper islet, is an artificial island which was built as part of the Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden. ... Categories: Stub | Islands of Denmark ... A disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ...

Rail transport

The public transport by rail is operated jointly by the Swedish SJ and Skåne commuter rail and the Danish Danske Statsbaner. A series of new dual-voltage trains were developed which link the Copenhagen area with Malmö and Southern Sweden as far as Gothenburg and Kalmar on selected departures. The bridge is also served by X2000 trains from Stockholm. Copenhagen Airport at Kastrup is served by its own train station close to the western bridgehead. Across the bridge trains run in a 20 minute pattern, and once an hour during night. Skytrain Bangkok. ... X2000 train. ... SkÃ¥ne commuter rail or PÃ¥gatÃ¥gen is the commuter rail system in SkÃ¥ne County, Sweden. ... Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways), usually referred to as DSB, is the largest Danish train operating company. ... Location of Gothenburg in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden County Västra Götaland County Province Västergötland Charter 1621 Government  - Mayor Göran Johansson Area  - City 450 km²  (174 sq mi)  - Water 14. ... Kalmar is a city in SmÃ¥land in south east Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. ... X 2000 is the brand name of Swedens tilting 200 km/h high-speed train class X2, which is operated by SJ. It was launched in 1990 as a first-class only train with a meal included in the ticket price, and free use of the trains fax... Nickname: Location of Stockholm in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden Municipality Stockholm Municipality County Stockholm Province Södermanland and Uppland Charter 13th Century Population (April 2007)  - City 782,885  - Density 4,160/km² (10,774. ... Copenhagen airport map Copenhagen Airport (Danish: ) (IATA: CPH, ICAO: EKCH) is the major airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. ...

The rail section is double track standard gauge (1435 mm) and capable of high-speeds exceeding 200 km/h. There were challenges related to the difference in electrification between the Danish and Swedish railway networks, but this was solved by the entire railway being electrified at the Danish 25 kV 50 Hz AC and there being a change of signal system at Peberholm. Sweden runs railways with left-hand traffic and Denmark with right-hand traffic. The switch is made at the Malmö railway station, which is a terminus station. For the new City tunnel connection a bridge will pass one track to the other side. A BNSF Railway intermodal train passes some maintenance of way equipment on the double track mainline in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. ... As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ... Japanese Shinkansen trains began the development of modern high-speed railways (shown here: West Japan Railway Company 500 Series Shinkansen at Kyoto). ... Overhead wire in Coventry, England A railway electrification system is a way of supplying electric power to electric locomotives or multiple units. ... Rail transport in Sweden utilises a network of 13,000 km of track, the 20th largest in the world. ... Josephson junction array chip developed by NIST as a standard volt. ... The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the SI unit of frequency. ... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ...

Costs

The cost for the entire Øresund connection construction, including motorway and railway connections on land, was calculated to DKK 30.1 billion according to the 2000 year price index. The cost of the bridge is expected to be paid back by 2035. Sweden has started spending SEK 9.45 billion more, on the Malmö City Tunnel (2006-2012) as a new rail connection to the bridge. 2035 (MMXXXV) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian Calendar. ... Construction of the tunnel Citytunneln, or The City Tunnel is a 17 kilometer raillink between the current Terminal station Malmö Central and the Öresund Bridge, currently under construction. ...

Toll charge

As of 2007, the toll for driving the fixed link is as follows:

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See also

• Oresund Region
• Great Belt Fixed Link
• Fehmarn Belt bridge

The Oresund strait between Malmö and Copenhagen Copenhagen, with Parliament to the right and the former Stock Exchange to the left Helsingborg Malmö, with the Turning Torso skyscraper The Oresund Region (Øresundsregionen in Danish or Öresundsregionen in Swedish) is a transnational region in southern Scandinavia located by the shores of... The Great Belt Fixed Link (Danish: Den faste Storebæltsforbindelse) is the fixed link between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen across the Great Belt. ... Fehmarn and Lolland divided by the Fehmarn Belt Ferry route in satelite picture The Fehmarn Belt bridge is a project to connect the German island Fehmarn with the Danish island Lolland with a bridge crossing the Fehmarn Belt in the Baltic Sea. ...

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Øresund bridge

• Oresund Bridge - Official website
• Øresund Bridge in the Structurae database
• Øresund Tunnel in the Structurae database
• Øresund Bridge from Skanska site
• German/English - information+online booking
• Traffic on the Øresundbridge in recent years - Comparison chart.
• Live traffic flow on the bridge (java).

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