The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate.

Opened in 2020, the Marconi Express monorail connects the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station with a travel time of approximately 7.5 minutes.

[67] Motorways: A shuttle bus service, route Aerobus (BLQ), used to run between the station and the airport before the advent of Marconi Express.

In case of events at the Bologna Fiere trade fair venue, BLQ operated a direct connection between the Airport and the bus terminus Fiera Viale Aldo Moro.

The airport has daily direct bus connections with Ferrara, Florence, Modena, Cervia, Ravenna, and Rimini, and three times a week with Ascoli Piceno.