ACAI Summer School on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Venue

The tutorial part of the summer school (June 7-10, 2011) will take place at Schloss Reinach, a scenic hotel a few kilometres from the ICAPS conference site in Freiburg, Germany. Participants will then move to accommodation in the centre of Freiburg to attend the ICAPS pre-conference programme (workshops and tutorials).

Accommodation

Accommodation from June 6-June 10 (four nights) at Schloss Reinach in Munzingen is included in the registration fee. Participants should organize their accommodation for the remaining days (for the ICAPS pre-conference programme in Freiburg) on their own, starting from the evening of June 10. Information on hotels and holiday flats in Freiburg is available on the ICAPS 2011 accommodation page. Please feel free to ask Gabriele Röger for support if you encounter any problems.

Travel Information

Traveling to Munzingen can be decomposed into getting to Freiburg and getting from Freiburg to Munzingen. We give some information on both parts below. For those who are interested, we will arrange some meeting points and times in Freiburg to travel together to Munzingen after registration. We will also give you some mobile numbers of the organizers, so you can contact us in case of problems.

Getting back from Munzingen to Freiburg is much easier: we will arrange transportation to Freiburg after the end of the tutorial part of the summer school on June 10.

Getting to Freiburg

Information on how to get to Freiburg is available at the ICAPS 2011 travel information page.

Getting from Freiburg to Munzingen...

... by taxi

A taxi from Freiburg center to Munzingen costs around 23 Euro (a van/mini-van taxi that can carry more than 4 passengers costs around 35 Euro). Please arrange a fixed price with the driver in advance (although in our experience German taxi drivers do not try to cheat their passengers).

... by public transport

You can search for connections from Freiburg to Munzingen at the website of the Deutsche Bahn. Search for connections from Freiburg(Breisgau) Hbf (if you want to start at Freiburg main station) to Romansstraße, Freiburg im Breisgau-Munzingen.

Munzingen is at the border of two fare zones. If travelling from Freiburg, you can use the general rule that you need a ticket for fare level one if arriving with bus 33 or 35 and a ticket for fare level two if arriving with bus 241.

If you start your trip at Freiburg main station, you can simply buy your ticket at one of the RVF or VAG ticket vending machines there. If you start from somewhere else in Freiburg with a tram or city bus (those with two-digit numbers), you can buy the ticket inside at the vending machines (you need coins; the machines give change). You can buy tickets in all buses from the driver (only cash; drivers give change) although in the city buses they do not like this too much because of the tight schedule.

For convenience, we list below some connections from Freiburg main station to Munzingen.