Long-distance traffic routes to and from Berlin

After the reunification of Germany on October, 3rd. 1990 Berlin becam a unified city again. Most of the ambitious plans of the pre-war time concerning the urban infrastructure could not be taken up again after fourty years of division. The article describes the long-distance traffic system in the former capital of the Reich, the division and duplication of the transportation facilities in the decades of division and gives an overview of concepts of reconstruction and new plans for the reunited Berlin and its hinterland.