Editing Stavanger (section)

==Transport==
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===Airport===
[[File:Stavanger airport.jpg|thumb|[[Stavanger Airport, Sola]]]]
[[Stavanger Airport]], is located in [[Sola, Norway|Sola]], 14 minutes away from Stavanger city center. The airport opened in 1937. In 1940 [[Stavanger Airport, Forus]], opened, but closed in 1989. In 2013 Sola airport had over 4 million passengers and was the largest airport in [[Rogaland]] county. It is also the 3rd largest airport in [[List of airports in Norway|Norway]] and 7th in the [[List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries|Nordic]] countries. The busiest route is [[Oslo-Gardermoen]], with over 1.5 million passengers; the second most popular is [[Bergen Airport, Flesland]], with over 700,000 passengers; [[Oslo-Torp]] is the third most popular, followed by [[Trondheim Airport, Værnes]] and [[Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik]] domestically. Internationally, the busiest routes are [[Copenhagen Airport|Copenhagen]], [[Amsterdam Airport|Amsterdam]], and [[Aberdeen Airport|Aberdeen]]. Stavanger also has connections to domestic and European destinations, including [[Heathrow Airport|London]], [[Charles de Gaulle Airport|Paris]], [[Barcelona Airport|Barcelona]], [[Arlanda Airport|Stockholm]], [[Chopin Airport|Warsaw]]. Domestic destinations are all the way up from [[Tromsø Airport|Tromsø]] down to [[Kristiansand Airport|Kristiansand]].

===Railway===
[[File:Stavangerstasjon.jpg|thumb|[[Stavanger Station|Stavanger S]]]]
[[Stavanger Station]] opened in 1878 and is the terminus of both the [[Sørlandet Line]] and the [[Jæren Line]].

[[Sørlandsbanen|The Southern Railway]] goes from [[Oslo Central Station]] to [[Drammen Station|Drammen]], to [[Kristiansand Station]], to, finally, [[Stavanger Station]]. This route, {{convert|545|km|mi|abbr=off}} between Oslo and Stavanger, is scheduled over four times every day and takes around seven hours. The railway was constructed in several phases, the first section being opened in 1871 and the last not opened until 1944. While there was continual construction work from [[Oslo]] westward as far as Moi, the [[Jæren Line]], from [[Egersund]] to Stavanger in [[Western Norway]], was opened in 1878. Up to 1913 the name used on plans and for the completed sections was the Vestlandet Line (The West Country Line).

There are also local trains in [[Jæren]] with 19 stops on one line. The line opened as a {{convert|1,067|mm|ftin|abbr=off}} narrow gauge stand-alone line on 27 February 1878. The railway was extended from [[Egersund]] to [[Flekkefjord]] as the [[Flekkefjord Line]] in 1904. The [[Jæren Line]]'s only branch, the [[Ålgård]] Line from [[Ganddal]] to [[Ålgård]], opened in 1924. In 1944, the [[Sørlandet Line]] was extended to [[Sira, Norway|Sira]] on the [[Flekkefjord Line]], and the [[Jæren Line]] was integrated into the main railway network. Because of this, the line was converted to standard gauge.

===Roads===
[[European route E39]] goes through Stavanger via the [[Mastrafjord Tunnel]] and [[Byfjord Tunnel]], then goes south to [[Sandnes]]. Fylkesvei 44 starts in Stavanger and ends in [[Kristiansand]], via [[Sandnes]] and [[Flekkefjord]].

National road 509 runs between [[Tasta|Tasta Borough]] through [[Tananger]], [[Sola, Norway|Sola]] and [[Stavanger Airport]], and [[Forus]], ending at [[European route E39|E39]] near [[Jåtten]].

On 18 December 2012, the new engine traffic road Solasplitten opened as a new thoroughfare eastward, north of [[Forus]] and the [[European route E39]].

An undersea road tunnel connects Stavanger to [[Strand, Norway|Strand]] via the [[Ryfast]] tunnel link. ([[Ryfylke Tunnel]] and [[Hundvåg Tunnel]]).

There is as of 2021 ongoing construction of [[Rogfast]], an undersea road tunnel that will facilitate travel between Stavanger and Haugesund.

===Sea===
Located outside Stavanger, there is a port serving ferries to [[Hirtshals]], Denmark. There have been advocates for the [[Smyril Line]] ferry between the [[Faroe Islands]] and Denmark to make a stop in Stavanger as the new port in Risavika allows this to be done while only adding one hour to the total sailing time.

Local ferries go to [[Tau, Norway|Tau]] and [[Kvitsøy]], while fast passenger boats go to many villages and islands between the main routes from Stavanger to [[Haugesund]] and [[Sauda]].

There are plans to re-establish the [[Newcastle–Bergen–Stavanger ferry|ferry link to Newcastle]] in the United Kingdom, which was suspended in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adrian Pearson |date=27 August 2012 |title=North Shields to Norway ferry plan raises job hopes |url=http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/08/27/north-shields-to-norway-ferry-plan-raises-job-hopes-61634-31703489/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110124318/http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/08/27/north-shields-to-norway-ferry-plan-raises-job-hopes-61634-31703489/ |archive-date=10 November 2012 |access-date=27 August 2012 |website=journallive}}</ref>

===Bus===
[[File:Sandnes 01.jpg|thumb|Bus terminal in [[Sandnes]], the neighboring city of Stavanger]]

The local bus service in Stavanger is administered by Rogaland Kollektivtrafikk (RKT) under the brand name "[[Kolumbus]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kolumbus AS |url=http://www.kolumbus.no/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107011617/http://www.kolumbus.no/ |archive-date=7 January 2010 |access-date=3 November 2009 |website=kolumbus.no}}</ref> The buses are operated by Boreal Transport. RKT administers all bus routes in Rogaland County.

Express bus services are operated by [[NOR-WAY Bussekspress]] from Stavanger City Terminal to [[Kristiansand]], Bergen and Haugesund, and by [[Lavprisekspressen]] to Oslo via Kristiansand.

The city has a number of bus services and taxis.