Tagung Naturwissenschaft und internationale Sicherheit

Wien, 17.-19. September 2003

Travel Instructions

and useful links (tourist board, weather, ...)

Here we give you short descriptions on how to reach the workshop venue (the "Simony House" of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Peter Jordan Straße 65, 1180 Vienna) if you come from the airport or the train stations. The conference venue is diagonally across the bus stop "Dänenstraße" (follow the signposts).

For more local travel information have a look at the electronic public transport information system for Vienna ( auf deutsch - in English ). Maybe you need some instructions for this system.

The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (in German, Universität für Bodenkultur - often just called "BOKU") in the 18th district, in the Northwest of Vienna. We have prepared two maps for you to assist you in orientation:

You will also receive a free map of central Vienna at the workshop.

a) from the airport (~60 minutes travel time)

Proceed to the underground train station, and get a single ticket to Vienna there. It costs EUR 3 and is valid for the whole public transport network in Vienna.

Trains run every 30 minutes and are much cheaper than the airport buses.

Get off the train at Wien-Mitte and take subway U4 direction Heiligenstadt , until station Spittelau. Change to bus 37A direction Dänenstraße and go until last station Dänenstraße .

If you want to use a taxi, it is advisable to order a taxi from Vienna in the arrival hall (from a counter there, or by telephone, e.g. C&K taxi (call 44444) costs EUR 22 or call 31300, that costs EUR 28). Local taxi waiting outside may charge you EUR 35 or even more!!!

If you have just missed a train and want to use the airport bus : these buses run to Wien-Mitte, Wien-West and Wien-Süd train stations so that then you can then follow one of the other descriptions.

b) from train station Wien-West (~20-25 minutes travel time)

Get yourself a single ticket (EUR 1,50; there are also strip cards for 4 rides at EUR 6, 24-hr-tickets (EUR 5), 72-hour-tickets (EUR 12), etc.;

Don´t forget to stamp your ticket at the little blue machines in the subway station, tram or bus, and use subway U6 direction Floridsdorf until station Währingerstrasse / Volksoper. Change to bus 40A direction Döblinger Friedhof and go until stop Dänenstraße .

c) from train station Wien-Süd (~45-50 min travel time)

Get a ticket as described above.

Then use tram D direction Beethovengang until stop Bauernfeldplatz . Change to bus 40A direction Döblinger Friedhof and go until stop Dänenstraße. (There are also other options, but this is the simplest one.)

Alternative (faster, about 30 minutes): get off the train at Wien-Meidling (that is one stop before Wien-Südbahnhof) and use subway U6 direction Floridsdorf until station Währingerstrasse / Volksoper. Change to bus 40A direction Döblinger Friedhof and go until stop Dänenstraße.

Instructions for the electronic travel schedule:

  1. In the "from" line, you have to enter the town/city from where you want to start, e.g. Wien [not Vienna!!]
  2. As "Stop", you enter the name of the bus/tram/subway stop you want to start. Alternatively, you select Adress and then enter the street name and house number
  3. In the "to" line, you enter Wien
  4. In the next "Stop" line, you enter Daenenstr
  5. Select date & time as appropriate
  6. With "anfordern" you submit your request.

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Useful links:
Vienna Tourist Board (needs Javascript and a new browser version)
Live Cameras in Vienna
Recent meteorological measurements at our institute
Weather forecast maps based on the US-MRF model for Europe
Pictogram medium range forecast for Vienna (by a private service - ZAMG does not publish similar forecasts)
Electronic city map of Vienna
Electronic city map with more functions but German-language interface

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This page is located at IMP .
Last update: 14 August 2003 by P. Seibert
URL of this page: http://www.boku.ac.at/imp/tnis/travel.html