:: Research Group Embedded Interaction :: Media Informatics :: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Pervasive2005 Travel Information - Updated 24.05.2005
On this page I want to provide some basic travel information for Pervasive2005 participants. If you miss any information please let me know.
Conference Location/Hotel
The conference Pervasive2005 will be held at the hotel Maritim (German Page, English Page), Munich. The postal address is:
Goethestraße 7
80336 München
Tel: (089) 55235-0
Fax: (089) 55235-900
GPS Coordinates of the Maritim: 48° 08' 17'' (48,13806), 11° 33' 32'' (11,5589)
The Maritim Hotel is the conference hotel. You can find other hotels in Munich on the website of the Munich tourist information (direct link to hotels and accommodation). Here is a floor plan of the Maritim. The hotel hallway and other rooms can be viewed on the hotel homepage.
A map guide can be found at http://www.stadtplandienst.de (German Map service) http://www.map24.de (English Map Service). The following sketch depicts Munich Central Station and the hotel location (black dot in the lower middle of the image).
Munich Public Transportation
Arrival by Train
If you arrive by train at Munich Central Station (in German: Hauptbahnhof), leave at exit Goethestrasse (the exit with the CocaCola advertisement). It is a few meters (about 50m) walk from the station. If you arrive by long-distance train, you arrive at the elevated trails (see sketch above). Walk to the end of the trails and turn right. You should leave the train station towards Bayerstrasse.
If you plan to take a taxi in Munich, please ask the hotel to get one for you. At the airport there are enough taxis waiting, you can directly take one and do not have to call for one.
GPS coordinates of Munich Central: 48° 08' 25'' (48,14028), 11° 33' 27 (11,5575)
Arrival by Aircraft
If you arrive at Munich Airport, the fastest and cheapest way is going by public transport. From Munich Airport two lines of the S-Train (in German: S-Bahn or Schnellbahn) leave at the Airport, the S1 (blue line) and the S8 (black-yellow line). Both go via several stops to Munich Central Station (in German: Hauptbahnhof) (see the Munich public transportation map). Please note the white 'S' in the green circle in the top left corner of the map meaning S-Train. It does not matter which train you take, both take about equally long. You cannot go in the wrong direction as the station is the final station for both lines. When you arrive at Munich Central Station by S-Train, you have to go up from the S-Train level to the basement level (not down to the underground level!). From there you can get to the elevated trails. The sign depicted is a red writing 'DB' in a red frame on white ground (see the logo in the top left corner on the homepage of the German Trains, www.bahn.de) means railway and stands for German Train (in German: Deutsche Bahn). From there, look for the exits towards Bayerstrasse (see sketch above). You have to pass by the elevated trails.
A map of the public transportation (containing the S-Trains and U-Trains (underground, in German: U-Bahn)) can be found at the site of the MVV (in German: Münchner Verkehrs Verbund), the local transportation service provider. A direct link to the map (stored locally for performance reasons) is here.
Going to Munich using a taxi costs at least about 50 €, going by train costs 10 €. There is no stopover when going by S-Train and you only have to walk about 100 m from Munich Central Station. If you arrive in groups, a group day ticket is the cheapest alternative. If you arrive alone, take a day ticket. Both tickets have to be valid for the whole net (in German: Tageskarte Gesamtnetz).
Basic information about the prices and ticket types available in the Munich public transportation are available on the web site of the city of Munich, especially on the ticket overview page of the Munich tourist information. There is also a ticket office with two clerks at Munich Airport. There are several automated ticket machines at the airport, but they only take cash or cash cards (in German: EC-Karte, Euro Cheque Karte) but no credit cards.
If you plan to take a taxi in Munich, please ask the hotel to get one for you. At the airport there are enough taxis waiting, you can directly take one and do not have to call for one.
Arrival by Car
As the hotel is directly in the center of Munich, the arrival by car is not recommended.
For our international guest, the city of Munich has a page dedicated to driving in and around Munich, also giving information about parking spaces in the city center and at public transportation stations. For up to date traffic information available, although this page is only available in German, please go here. Park and Ride stations can be found at www.parkundride.de/ (only available in German).
A detailed description of the route to take via superhighway (in German: Autobahn) will be available soon.
Emergency Information
If you need emergency help, here are the telephone numbers of several institutions. Please note that you need not to dial the 0049 before the number when already in Germany and calling from a local phone.
| Police Department | 110 |
| Fire Department | 112 |
| Medical Emergency | 112 or 19222 |
| Poison Emergency | 02 28 - 1 92 40 |
| Poison Information/Emergency | 07 61 - 1 92 40 (24 hrs) |
Here is more emergency information available.
Here is a complete official list of emergency infors, including hospitals, doctors, etc.
If you get lost, here is the address of our laboratory:
Research Group Embedded Interaction
Rooms 2006 (2. floor) and 505 (5. floor)
Amalienstrasse 17
80333 Munich
GPS Coordinates Embedded Interaction Laboratory:
48° 08' 48'' (48,1469) Nord, 11° 34' 33'' (11,5758) Ost
Emergency telephone number (available from Saturday, 7.05.2005, to Thursday, 13.05.2005):
NO LONGER AVAILABLE!!!
Lunch Information (Wednesday 11.05.2005)
Wednesday is the day for workshops in the Maritim and the Intercity. For lunch, there are several suitable restaurant where we reserved a small number of seats. Below is a list of restaurants for lunch nearby.
Please see the lunch page for more information.
Weather Information
Here, a free long-term weather forecast can be found, whereas here is a free short-term weather forecast for Munich.