Sprinter to CLT Airport

Car Rentals: Armada, Dollar, Enterprise, Payless and Thrifty are available on premises. Taxis are just outside the baggage claim area.

Charlotte's current Amtrak train station is at 1914 North Tryon Street with service provided by these train routes:

Crescent: NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC-Greensboro-Charlotte-Atlanta-New Orleans  

Carolinian/Piedmont: Atlanta-Charlotte-Greensboro-Durham-Raleigh-Richmond-DC

A $100 million intermodal transportation center is being built in Charlotte's central business district at South Graham Street at West Trade Street to replace the current Amtrak station. When Gateway Station completes in 2012, it will host Amtrak, commuter rail transit, light rail transit, bus rapid transit, Greyhound, 2 street car lines, regular buses and taxis.
 
Birmingham-Atlanta-Charlotte-Greensboro-Durham-Raleigh-Richmond-DC is listed as a U.S. High Speed Rail Corridor to receive funding by the U.S. Department of Transportation. See this important article about Interstate High Speed Rail.

Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) currently features LYNX Blue Line light rail transit and several Bus Rapid Transit lines that meet at Charlotte Transportation Center. Adjacent to the convention center, shops and skyscraper office buildings, its the heart of Charlotte people-watching. The LYNX Blue line runs several miles south to Sound End shopping district and I-485 Freeway. Charlotte Trolley, a vintage trolley line, also runs on LYNX Blue Line tracks to the transportation center. Its gives a liesurely grand tour of old Charlotte.

Charlotte Transportation Center

Charlotte metro area has big plans underway over the next 5-10-15 years with CATS Light Rail Transit and Commuter Rail Transit expansion in 7 directions from the Central Business District. One long needed route will go to CLT Airport.

Charlotte Freeway System: The metro area is located 45 minutes south of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and 1 hour north of Columbia, South Carolina at the intersection of Interstate 77 and 85 freeways. I-485 Freeway circles about 90% of Charlotte, with completion coming soon:

  74 - East-West boulevard and freeway combination
  77 – North/South interstate freeway
  85 – Northeast-Southeast freeway loop, to Atlanta
277 -  Loop freeway around Center City
485 – Beltway nearly surrounds Charlotte metro area
521 -  Boulevard and freeway between I-77 & I-85