ERSA 2002 in Dortmund: Useful Facts

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Please select an origin and a destination from the list, then select date and departure or arrival time, then decide of you want to use only regional means of transport or all products (this is only important if your origin or destination is Düsseldorf airport - for detailed information please have a look at the journey information below.) You“ll get a congress ticket, valid in all regional means of transport in Dortmund, Bochum and to Dortmund airport via Holzwickede, at the congress check in.

A connection overview for each hotel ist available below.

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By air
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Dortmund can easily be reached by train and airplane. This page informs you how to get to Dortmund. Public transit from the railway station or airport to the hotels and the congress venue is described on the accommodation page. Here you can also download detailed connection info (PDF-file) for each hotel.

By rail
Dortmundis an important junction in the German and European IC/EC/ICE-transportation network. In the following table you can find the travel time from European cities and university sites to Dortmund with an arrival time at approx. 4 p.m. The table ist sorted by travel time.

From/to	Dortmund	From/to	Dortmund
Hannover	1 h 45 min	Sųnderborg	6 h 30 min
Hamburg	2 h 45 min	London	7 h 00 min
Amsterdam	3 h 00 min	Zürich	7 h 15 min
Berlin	3 h 15 min	Neuchâtel	8 h 15 min
Rotterdam	3 h 15 min	Praha	9 h 30 min
Kiel	4 h 00 min	Warszawa	10 h 00 min *12 h 00 min
Mannheim	4 h 00 min	Vienna	10 h 30 min *13 h 40 min
Bruxelles	4 h 00 min	Jönköping	11 h 30 min *18 h 30 min
Groningen	4 h 15 min	Milano	*12 h 30 min
Karlsruhe	4 h 30 min	Graz	*16 h 00 min
Nürnberg	4 h 45 min	Roma	*18 h 30 min
Paris	5 h 30 min	Madrid	*20 h 30 min
München	6 h 30 min	Oslo	*22 h 45 min

* This travel time is reached by using a overnight-connection with an early morning arrival in Dortmund.

Your personal connection can be requested by the travel service of the German Rail (DB - Deutsche Bahn). You can also use the following buttons to search connections from your home railway station (all european railway stations are available) to the congress venue at the university of Dortmund or your hotel. You can also change the pre-selected arrival time.

By air
There are two airports closeby: the Dortmund Airport (mostly domestic flights or connecting flights), seated at the eastern edge of the city, and the International Airport Düsseldorf.

Dortmund airport
Using public transport you“ll need 30 to 45 minutes from Dortmund airport to the city of Dortmund and approx. 50 minutes to 1 h to the congress venue.
You can use the free shuttle service bus from Dortmund Terminal to the railway station "Holzwickede Bf". The bus is in service from 5 a.m. till 11 p.m. and will start from Dortmund Terminal every 15 minutes. It“ll need approx. five minutes to "Holzwickede Bf", there you“ll have to change to regional trains to "Dortmund Hbf" (30-minutes-service). Please ask the connection service for the detailed trip. Please notice that you“ll need a ticket "B" (3,30

)!
For all rides via "Aplerbeck" or "Aplerbeck Bf" with the bus line "440", the light rail line "U47" or a regional train you“ll need only an "A" ticket (1,75

).
Using a taxi you“ll need approx. 25 minutes to the city of Dortmund (approx. 17

) and approx. 30 minutes to congress venue (approx. 19

).
With the congress ticket you“ll get at the congress check in you are able to use all regional means of transport in Dortmund, Bochum and to Dortmund airport via Holzwickede for free.

Düsseldorf airport
Using public transport you“ll need approx. 1 h 15 minutes from Düsseldorf airport to the city of Dortmund and also 1 h 15 minutes to congress venue. For both rides you“ll need a "C" ticket (7,10

) if you“re exclusivly using regional means of transportation (RegionalExpress, RegionalBahn, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Straßenbahn, Schwebebahn, Bus). Using a taxi you“ll need approx. 1 h to the city of dortmund (approx. 80

) and approx. 50 minutes to congress venue (approx. 75

). Please take into consideration that there are often traffic jams on this route.

Public transport from the aiport to congress venue/hotel
Your personal connection can be requested with the following form. Please notice that there are two prices for a ride from Düsseldorf aiport to Dortmund: the price for regional means of transport (ticket "C", 7,10

) and the price for long-distance means of transport (up to 17

). If you“re using a long-distance train (ICE, IC or IR), you also have to buy a ticket for the local transport in Dortmund (ticket "A", 1,75

).
For the ride from Dortmund airport to your hotel or congress venue you“ll need the ticket "A" (1,75

), if you“re using the bus line "440" from Dortmund Airport via "Aplerbeck" (change to U47) or "Aplerbeck Bf" (change to regional trains). If you“re using the free shuttle service bus from Dortmund Airport to "Holzwickede Bf", you“ll have to buy a ticket "B" (3,30

) from "Holzwickede Bf" to the city centre or the congress venue.
For your return trip you can reach Dortmund airport with your congress ticket for free.

By Car
The campus of the Universität Dortmund is situated close to the motorway intersection Dortmund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A 45 Frankfurt-Dortmund crosses the B 1 / A 40. That's how the university is connected to the west, with the motorway network of the Ruhr Area and beyond that to the regions of the Lower Rhine and the Netherlands.

In the eastern direction the B 1 leads through Dortmund to Unna, where there is a connection with the motorways leading to Bremen, Hannover/Berlin and Kassel.

In the north, the A 45 ends after a few kilometres at the A 2, leading to the Kamener Kreuz and in the other direction to Oberhausen.

In the Westhofener Kreuz, south of the university, the A 45 crosses the A 2, leading to Bremen and Köln. The best motorway exits you find on the A 45 in Dortmund-Eichlinghofen and on the B 1 / A 40 in Dortmund-Dorstfeld. There are signs at both exits leading you to the university.

The local road network is equipped with signs leading you to the Campus Nord.

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