Besançon is situated at the crossing of two major lines of communication, the NE-SW route, following the valley of the river Doubs, and linking Germany and North Europe with Lyon and southwest Europe, and the N-S route linking northern France and the Netherlands with Switzerland. A key staging post on the Strasbourg-Lyon (Germany-Spain) route, it also has direct high-speed train (TGV) links with Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport, and Lille from its Gare de Besançon-Viotte. Unusually for a town of its size, it does not have a commercial airport, though two international airports, Euro Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburgand Lyon Saint- Exupéry International Airport, can be reached in about 2 hours. Ginko is the bus company which runs the urban transport of Besançon
