Transport in the U.S. state of West Virginia is handled by the West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) which employs more than 6,000 in West Virginia.

Transportation in West Virginia includes the following.

Roads

Interstate highways

Interstate 64 Interstate 68 Interstate 70 Interstate 470Interstate 73 (proposed) Interstate 74 (proposed) Interstate 77 West Virginia Turnpike Interstate 79 Interstate 81

U.S. Highways

U.S. Route 11 U.S. Route 19 U.S. Route 119 U.S. Route 219 U.S. Route 220U.S. Route 21 U.S. Route 121 U.S. Route 22 U.S. Route 522 U.S. Route 30U.S. Route 33 U.S. Route 35 U.S. Route 40 U.S. Route 340 U.S. Route 48U.S. Route 50 U.S. Route 250 U.S. Route 52 U.S. Route 60 Midland TrailU.S. Route 460

West Virginia State Highways

Airports Appalachian Regional Airport Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport Elkins-Randolph County Airport Greater Cumberland Regional Airport Greenbrier Valley Airport Mercer County Airport Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport Morgantown Municipal Airport North Central West Virginia Airport Potomac Airfield Raleigh County Memorial Airport Tri-State Airport Wheeling Ohio County Airport Yeager Airport

Railroads

While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.

Today, West Virginia is serviced by two Amtrak lines: one that cuts through the southern portion of the state, including stops in Huntington and Charleston, and one that cuts through the state's Eastern Panhandle, including stops in Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry. The Eastern Panhandle is also serviced during the week by MARC's Brunswick commuter rail line, which terminates in Martinsburg. Commercial railroads still operate in the state, mainly hauling coal to inland ports such as Huntington-Tristate (the nation's largest inland port) and Pittsburgh.

Aggregated entries from McGraw's electric railway directories report about of operating track for West Virginia streetcar and interurban companies in 1894 and an observed maximum of about in 1919. The chart aggregates operating track length reported for company entries assigned to West Virginia in the McGraw directory; it omits 1912 and 1913 because those observations did not pass cross-checks against the validated state series.

Raw observation data

Bridges and tunnels As a mountainous state, bridges and tunnels play an important role in transportation in West Virginia. Notable bridges and tunnels include: New River Gorge Bridge – near Fayetteville, WV Silver Bridge – Point Pleasant, WV Silver Memorial Bridge – Henderson, WV to Gallipolis, OH Wheeling Suspension Bridge – Wheeling, WV East River Mountain Tunnel – near Bluefield, WV to near Rocky Gap, VA Fort Henry Bridge – Wheeling, WV Veterans Memorial Bridge – Weirton, WV to Steubenville, OH

Public transportation

Rapid transit Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit

Bus systems

Ashland Bus System Barons Bus Lines Bluefield Area Transit Central West Virginia Transportation Authority Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority Fairmont Marion County Transit Authority Intelligent Transit Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority Mountain Line Transit Authority Ohio Valley and Eastern Ohio Regional Transportation Authority Tri-State Transit Authority

Rivers

Rivers with commercial barge traffic and docks in West Virginia include:West Virginia Department of Transportation, Rivers Section web page, accessed 9 June 2006 Ohio Kanawha (a tributary of the Ohio) Monongahela (The Mon and the Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.) Little Kanawha (a tributary of the Ohio) Big Sandy (a tributary of the Ohio) Elk (a tributary of the Kanawha) Pocatalico (a tributary of the Kanawha) Mill Creek (a tributary of the Ohio)

Navigation locks and dams in West Virginia:U.S. Corps of Engineers, Huntington District web site, accessed 9 June 2006U.S. Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District web site, accessed 9 June 2006

On the Ohio New Cumberland Locks and Dam Pike Island Locks and Dam Hannibal Locks and Dam Willow Island Locks and Dam Belleville Locks and Dam Racine Locks and Dam Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam

On the Kanawha London Lock and Dam Marmet Lock and Dam Winfield Lock and Dam On the Monogahela Morgantown Lock and Dam Hildebrand Lock and Dam Opekiska Lock and Dam

See also Plug-in electric vehicles in West Virginia

References