 Via this road the airport Stuttgart and the federal motorway 8 can be reached in about 20 minutes.Altenriet has no train station, the nearest train stations are in Nürtingen and Metzingen.In Altenriet in 1914/1915 a pumped storage basin was built by the former cotton spinning mill Gminder to pump water from the Neckar River from Neckartenzlingen and to drive a turbine in the Neckartenzlingen hydroelectric power station.