Click to Return to CityofOrlando.net CityofOrlando.net
Calendar Jobs Neighborhoods Recreation Parks Visitors contact Click on Hot Spots to Navigate
Economic Development/Fast Facts

Metro Orlando
Transportation

AIR
Orlando International Airport Rankings and  Service: 

• Orlando International Airport (OIA) is one of the fastest growing major airports in the country

• OIA provides service to more major U.S. destinations than most other cities in the U.S.

• Of the 30.8 million passengers served by the OIA in 2000, 2.5 million were international travelers

• Covers an area of almost 15,000 acres, the third largest airport, in terms of land area, in the U.S.

• Orlando has schedule non-stop service to 69 U.S. destinations, more destinations than any other airport in Florida

• More than 1,000 daily flights to all major cities, including direct international service

• Over 80,000 passengers use the award-winning airport daily

Highways

• Interstate 4 (I-4)

• Florida Turnpike

• Beeline Expressway (S.R. 528)

• East/West Expressway (S.R. 408)

• Central Florida GreeneWay (S.R. 417) . Named one of the nation's ten "Top Roads" by the American Automobile
Association.

• U.S. 441

• U.S. 17/92

• U.S. 27

• S.R. 19

• S.R. 50

Ports

• Port Canaveral (Atlantic Ocean/40 miles east of Orlando/Channel Depth of 45 feet)

• Port of Tampa (Gulf of Mexico/84 miles southwest of Orlando/Channel Depth of 34 feet)

• Port of Sanford (St. Johns River/20 miles north of Orlando/Channel Depth of 12 feet)

Public Transit

Lynx
• Serves Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties. An area of approximately 2,00 square miles with a resident population of more than 1.3 million people

• 208 coaches easily recognized by the "Moveum of Art"

• Ridership since 1992 has doubled to more than 19 million passengers annually

• Lynx earned the Public Transportation Company of the Year from the American Public Transit Association in 1998 for the second time in three years

• Lynx buses travel more than 10 million miles each year

Lymmo
• The Downtown Orlando bus circulator carries an average of 4,000 passengers per week

• 10 coaches easily recognized by the "Moveum of Art" displayed on each coach

• Free ridership along a three-mile loop in the heart of Downtown Orlando

• Eighty percent of all public parking facilities in Downtown Orlando are located within one block of the Lymmo system

• Eleven lighted and computerized Lymmo Stations and eight additional stops

City of Orlando Seal

 
Economic Development
6th Floor
One City Commons
400 S. Orange Ave.
P.O. Box 4990
Orlando, FL  
32802-4990
407-246-2821
407-246-2848 Fax
Economic Development Directory

Home
City Planning
           Business Development
Permitting & Code Enforcement
Centroplex
Downtown Dev't. Board (DDB)

 
Fast Facts
City at a Glance
Education
Growth Industries
Downtown
Tourism & Conventions
Population
Transportation
Employment
Sports & Culture
 

Sites to Visit

Economic Development Commission

Black Business Investment Fund
UCF's Small Business Development Center
 

Home   |  Legal  |  Site Map   |  Tool Box   |  Feedback

© 2001-2006,  City of Orlando