ZUKUR - STE - TU Dortmund

Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Future-City-Region-Ruhr

More than five million people live in the Metropole Ruhr, the largst agglomeration of Europe that includes 53 cities. Time and again, the effects of climate change could be experienced here in the past few years: floodings, storms, or heat waves. The project „Zukunft-Stadt-Region-Ruhr“ (ZUKUR, Future-city-region-Ruhr) brings together representatives of research, municipalities and society to jointly develop a concept for the future-proof development of the Ruhr area.

In the project, ten departments of the Faculty of Spatial Planning of TU Dortmund cooperate with three policy partners. The partners represent the three spatial levels that shall be studied. The Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) represents the region as a whole, the municipal level is represented by the city of Bottrop, and the neighbourhood perspective is embodied by the Dortmund urban district of Marten.

The three levels – region, city, neighbourhood – are the backdrop for "real-world laboratories" that aim to find innovative solutions to cope with climate change and socio-ecological inequalities in a joint effort with inhabitants.

The project is part of the initiative 'city of the future' (Leitinitiative Zukunftsstadt). The initiative was launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to support innovative approach to contribute to more sustainability in cities.

For more information see https://irpud.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/forschung/projekte/zukur/

The project was lead by Joachim Scheiner at the transport research group, Department of Spatial Planning.

Project start and end: 2017-2020

Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (www.bmbf.de)

Contact

Prof. Dr. Joachim Scheiner, joachim.scheiner@tu-dortmund.de, Tel.: 0231 755-4822