Austrian Gas Grid Management Austrian Gas Grid Management AGGM Austrian Gas Grid Management (AGGM) assumed on June 1st 2017 the role of market area manager (MAM) for the Eastern gas market area in Austria, which comprises all Austrian provinces except for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. In this role, which AGGM took over from Gas Connect Austria GmbH (GCA), the company is responsible for the management of the international gas transmission systems that are operated at present exclusively in the eastern part of Austria. There are no transmission systems in the market areas of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. This is the reason why, in accordance with the
Vorarlberg Rhine Valley areas of Bregenz and Dornbirn, live about 180,000 people, around half the population of Vorarlberg. The "green lung" of this region is the Vorarlberg Ried, which is on the border with Switzerland and is surrounded by the settlements of Vorarlberg on three sides. Geographically the Lower Rhine Valley also includes the municipality of Altach. Due to its historical links with the municipality of Götzis and membership of the district of Feldkirch, Altach is often considered part of the Oberland. Vorarlberg Rhine Valley The Vorarlberg Rhine Valley (), also called the Vorarlberg Oberland and Unterland, is a section of the Alpine