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Population Comparison Within a 650-Mile Radius
(equidistant between
% OF U.S. POPULATION
New York and Miami)
CITY
enables more than 130
Charlotte Atlanta New York
million people to be reached within 2 hours by air or 1 day by truck
52% 44% 40%
Source: Charlotte Regional Partnership 2004
• 62% of the U.S. industrial base and over 52% of the U.S. population is accessible within 650 miles (1,000 kilometers) of Charlotte USA • Air service to more than 22 million people a year on over 550 daily departures to over 120 destinations from Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the 6th largest major airline hub in the nation • Within 200 miles of three major seaports, including the 2nd largest on the eastern coast of the U.S. – Charleston, S.C.
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AIR ACCESS • Charlotte Douglas International Airport has more flights per capita than any other U.S. region • Direct non-stop service to 125 destinations including Frankfurt, Munich, London, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, among others • Full air-cargo service – ranked 30th nationwide in cargo H I G H W AY A C C E S S • Served by four major interstate highways: I-40, I-77, I-485 and I-85 • 8th largest U.S. trucking center; 450 trucking firms are located in the region; served by nine of the nation’s top 10 trucking companies 18
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Getting into and out of the airport is very easy... Air service was something we looked at pretty hard.
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- Steve Huggins Senior V.P., Goodrich Corp., on relocating its headquarters to Charlotte from Ohio in 1999.
PORT ACCESS • Rail connections to the Carolina coast give the Charlotte region status as an inland port; home to an inland intermodal terminal • Charleston, Savannah, Wilmington and Morehead City deep sea ports accessible via rail or truck within 4 hours. RAIL ACCESS • At the center of the largest consolidated rail system in the country • Serviced by CSX, Norfolk Southern, Lancaster & Chester railway and a number of short line railroads, bringing more than 200 trains through Charlotte each week.
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