AfD on transport

The AfD wants to scrap the planned phase-out of combustion engines without replacement and not limit state subsidies to electric cars. It rejects CO₂ taxes, driving bans and speed limits it considers unjustified. The platform cites protecting the auto industry and its jobs.

The AfD wants to keep allowing cars with combustion engines. The state should not support only electric cars. The party is against CO₂ taxes and driving bans. It wants to protect the car industry and its jobs.

Subsidies should be open to all drive technologies. The AfD supports research into biofuels and synthetic fuels. The car should be recognized as the backbone of mobility, protected and promoted. The platform rejects as ideological a transport transition that makes driving more expensive or pushes it out.

The AfD wants to make road freight more efficient, expand rest stops and truck parking, and build more loading terminals for rail. It rejects a truck toll at the state level. It points out that more than 80 percent of goods are moved by road.

The AfD wants to build more rest stops for trucks. Drivers can take breaks and refuel there. More goods should also be moved onto trains. The AfD does not want a state truck toll. A toll is a fee for using roads.

The platform backs extra-long trucks because it says they are cheap and save trips. Terminals for transfer between road and rail are meant to relieve highways and reduce congestion. The state truck toll agreed in the previous coalition agreement would not be introduced. Cabotage rules, meaning the rules for domestic transport by foreign haulers, would be checked more strictly.

The AfD regards the car as part of personal freedom and wants to lower parking costs for drivers. Cycling should get no priority over cars, and the Landesmobilitätsgesetz (state mobility law) should be repealed without replacement.

The AfD wants to help drivers. Parking should cost less. Bikes should not come before cars. The state mobility law should go.

The platform calls for accompanied driving from age 16 and rejects an EU proposal on licenses for people over 70 as age discrimination. Resident parking permits should again cost no more than 30.70 euros a year. As a pilot project, every city should offer free parking on at least one Saturday a month to support local retail. The AfD wants to repeal the state mobility law because it sees it as ideologically driven, bureaucratic, and a burden on business, citizens and municipalities.

The AfD wants to sharply raise funding for maintaining and expanding roads and bridges. In its view, the motor vehicle tax should go entirely to roads. The highway network should also be expanded.

Many roads and bridges are in bad shape. The AfD wants to spend much more money to fix them. Money from the car tax should pay for roads. There should also be more highways.

According to the platform, more than 600 bridges in the state need repair, of which no more than 25 were slated for repair in 2024. The state should push in the Bundesrat for the federal government to stop using the motor vehicle tax for other purposes. Gaps in the Autobahn network should be closed to avoid detours and relieve towns. Rural areas should have the same priority for transport links as cities. Traffic lights should get cameras and sensors to improve traffic flow, and the AfD supports autonomous driving.

The AfD wants more tracks, trains and train drivers to allow more frequent service. A state-owned company would be set up to reopen disused rail lines. Airports should stay competitive and flights affordable.

The AfD wants more tracks and more trains. More train drivers should be trained. Then trains can run more often. Flying should stay affordable for people.

New rail lines, additional trains and a training drive for train drivers are meant to connect metropolitan areas better. The AfD wants to reopen disused lines if enough passengers can be expected and links to cities improve. For this it plans a rail infrastructure company owned by the state. In the Bundesrat, the state should oppose energy and administrative rules that, in the party's view, drive up costs for airlines.