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Accomodation

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Conference Venue

CAIP 2007 will take place in the city of Vienna, the capital of Austria. The conference will take place in the Vienna University of Technology in the Freihaus Building (Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna) near Karlsplatz, a major subway station in Vienna.
If arriving by subway please leave the Underground station at exit "Wiedner Hauptstraße". On the Wiedner Hauptstraße, the first building you pass is the library of the TU (with a huge stone bird at its corner), the conference venue is in the building behind ("Freihaus", a huge green building). Enter the building and go to the red section of the building (Turm C) and there take the elevators or stairs to the 2nd floor, the registration is in front of HS1 ("Lecture Room 1"). A detailed plan of the building can be seen here.

How to reach Karlsplatz

The best way to travel in vienna is by public transport .

By Air:

Vienna International Airport (VIE) is located in Schwechat, about 20 km south-east of Vienna's center, see http://www.viennaairport.com.
At the airport, you can take two railway lines: - Cheap, but slow - railway line S7 (direction Floridsdorf) to the station Wien Mitte, or - expensive and 8 minutes faster - the City Airport Train also takes you to the station Wien Mitte. At Wien Mitte, take Underground U4, direction Hütteldorf, 2 stops to Karlsplatz. Alternatively, at the airport you may also take the shuttle bus (Vienna Airport Lines) to Schwedenplatz. From there take Underground U4, direction Hütteldorf, 3 stops to Karlsplatz, see http://www.wienerlinien.at

By Train:

Vienna has two main train stations, Westbahnhof and Südbahnhof. At Westbahnhof: Enter the Underground station Westbahnhof and take Underground U3, direction Erdberg, 5 stops to Stephansplatz, where you have to change to Underground U1, direction Reumannplatz, 1 stop to Karlsplatz. At Südbahnhof: Take tram 18 (direction "Burggasse") or O (direction "Raxstraße") from the main building of Südbahnhof to Südtiroler Platz (next stop). When coming with a train from the south, you can also leave the platform at its rear end and walk to the nearby Underground station Südtiroler Platz (near the bus stops). From Südtiroler Platz, take Underground U1, direction Kagran, 2 stops to Karlsplatz see http://www.wienerlinien.at

By Car:

If you come by car, the easiest and cheapest way is to park your car somewhere near one of the Underground or railway stations at the periphery (make sure you remember where), and use public transport further on. If you want to park at the conference venue drive to "Operngasse", which is a south-bound one way street, on the left side of this street, you will find a underground car park near the conference venue ("TU Tiefgarage" see green line in the attached plan).

Like all car parking facilities in central Vienna, the underground car park below the physics and mathematics building ("TU Tiefgarage") is rather expensive (EUR 2.60 per hour, EUR 20.80 per day). It is open 24 hours a day. Please note that parking in the streets in central Vienna during daytime is restricted to residents with a special permit or short periods (you will need a ticket called a "Kurzparkschein" for this).

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Last modified: April 25, 2008 by ConfAdmin