 Running through Rutsweiler is "Bundesstraße" 423 (Altenglan–Glan-Münchweiler–Sarreguemines).Besides this road, which runs along the village's length, Rutsweiler am Glan has five local streets, all of which but Wingertstraße are linked with each other as well as with "Bundesstraße" 423, also known locally as Hauptstraße (“Main Street”).It was also formerly known as Moorstraße, whose first syllable refers to "Moor" in the word's more usual German meaning of “low-lying wetland”.