Getting to Stuttgart

Information on getting to Stuttgart is available on the conference website in the section travel. General advice is also available lower on this page.

Car Shares

Are you driving to Stuttgart? Do you have extra space in your car?

Drivers seeking passengers:

Driver	From	Spaces remaining	Passengers	Comments
PhilipVanHoof	Turnhout/Geel, Belgium	1	Kristof Vansant,Bjorn Monnens	-
RaphaelQuinet	Liege, Belgium	2	-	driving on Saturday afternoon (via Aachen, then near Koeln, Bonn, etc.), back on Tuesday pm - can modify schedule or even take longer route via Luxembourg if someone is interested
ThomasMueller	Wiesbaden, Germany	2	-	will probably only go there on Sunday
ErikSnoeijs	Goes, Netherlands	0	ReinoutVanSchouwen, OlavVitters, VincentvanAdrighem	Car is full. Please keep this here for information.

Passengers seeking drivers:

Passenger	From	Comments
ChristianKirbach	Siegen (near Frankfurt)	Can probably only join one day (DN: which day?)
DanielElstner	Berlin	-
TinoMeinen	Amsterdam	has drivers license

Question for the locals: how hard/expensive is it to park a car in Stuttgart, preferably close to the conference or to one of the recommended hotels?

map with parking places: http://www.stuttgart-stadtplan.de/Stuttgart/pq/25/33.html
and a list (showing more than the map above): http://www.stuttgart-stadtplan.de/cgi-bin/perl/show-adress.pl?Klasse=service&Rubrik=verkehrsinfos&Unter=parkhaeuser
cheepest is AFAIK near the main station, if you have a train ticket (it was(is?) 5 EUR/day) usual price is AFAIR 2 EUR/hour (discounts for night, full day usually available), but I'm not sure if it isn't even more expensive

Other ways to get to Stuttgart

Airplanes, trains, busses to get to Stuttgart

If you are coming by plane, you may be able to get a cheaper flight (and/or arrive earlier in Stuttgart) if you fly to other cities in Germany, specially Frankfurt am Main or Munich. Fast trains are available to Stuttgart from other German cities with good connections, and taking them may help you see a little more of Germany.

An InterCity Express (ICE) train from the Frankfurt Airport (the station is called Frankfurt (M) Flughafen Fernbf) to Stuttgart leaves every two hours, takes about 1:15 hours, and is priced at EUR 73 for first class and EUR 47 for second class (not much difference with first class) each way. It's faster than an airplane when you consider the connection times and all. There is also the option of using cheaper (and a little slower) trains: InterCity (IC) and EuroCity (EC) trains go the same way for EUR 34 (second class) in two to three hours. The airline you are flying with may already offer the rail connection beforehand (more info).

Munich Airport, however, does not have a mainline train station. You will need to get to Munich central train station first (about EUR 9.50, 30 to 40 minutes). Then to get to Stuttgart, in second class, you could take an ICE train (EUR 45, 2:20 hours) or an IC or EC train (EUR 37, 2:30 hours).

Note that cheap airlines, like Ryan Air, fly to Frankfurt-Hahn airport (110km from Frankfurt am Main), instead of Frankfurt am Main, somehow in the middle of nowhere. Frankfurt-Hahn does not have train connections, it seems, but there are buses and taxis available. Buses don't go directly to Stuttgart, so you should take a bus to Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, or Heidelberg (locals: which is better?), and then get to Stuttgart some other way. For example, getting to Mainz main train station by Bohr Omnibus will take 1:10 hours at EUR 10.50, and then a train to Stuttgart in second class will take 1:30 to 2:45 hours and EUR 27.70 to EUR 40.00 (depending on the type of train).