In the heart of Europe's economic market
- Over 60 % of the European Union's active population and nearly 75 % of its buying power are concentrated within a radius of 500 Kms around southern Alsace. Here where France, Germany and Switzerland share a border, over 230 companies with international capital have chosen to locate.
Communication infrastructure that puts Alsace at the centre of much of the continent's trade thanks to the quality of its connections and the mulitmodal transport it provides acces to.
- Road: a dense trinational motorrway network.
- Rail: TGV Est high-speed trains and starting in 2011 the Rhine-Rhone TGV. Another innovation: the Tram-train is to go into service in 2010.
- Air: Euroairport (Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg) the world's only trinational airport.
- Water: France's thid largest harbour (Ports de Mulhouse-Rhin) following Paris and Strasbourg with rail connections to the harbours of the North Sea.
