Travel Guide: How to reach MPII
The Max-Planck-Institut Informatik is located on the campus of the Universität des Saarlandes at some 5 km north-east of the center of Saarbrücken in the forest close to Dudweiler.
Saarbrücken has its own airport (Saarbrücken-Ensheim) and is tightly connected by train or shuttle bus to the airports at Luxemburg and Frankfurt. Major railroads connect Saarbrücken every hour within Germany and frequently to Metz, Nancy or Paris. Highways lead to Mannheim/Frankfurt, Luxemburg/Trier/Köln, Strassbourg or Metz/Nancy/Paris.
The campus can be reached...
- from Saarbrücken-Ensheim, Airport
by taxi approx. 20 min.; ca. EUR 15,-- - from Saarbrücken, Main Station
by taxi approx. 15 min; ca. EUR 8,-- - From downtown Saarbrücken
by bus
(approx. 20 min., ca. EUR 2,--) - heading to Dudweiler-Dudoplatz or Universität Campus
- getting off the bus at Universität Mensa or Campus
- from Frankfurt or Mannheim via Autobahn A6
by car - leaving at exit St.Ingbert-West
- following the (white) signs Universität-Ost to the campus
- from Paris via Autobahn A4
by car - leaving at exit St.Ingbert-West
- following the (white) signs Universität-Ost to the campus
- from Trier
by car - via Autobahn A1, A8, A623 heading to Saarbrücken
The institute can also be found on this campus map.