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Directions

DTU

My office is on the second floor of Building 321, room 209, on DTU’s campus in Lyngby.

From central Copenhagen, by train

  1. S-train to Lyngby. From Nørreport (or København H, Østerport, wherever you are), take line A towards Hillerød or line E towards Holte and get off at Lyngby St. The ride takes about a quarter of an hour. On weekdays each line runs every ten minutes, so in practice there is a train roughly every five minutes. In the evenings and at weekends only line A runs: every ten minutes during the day, every twenty later on.
  2. Light rail to campus. At Lyngby, a tunnel leads straight from the S-train platforms to the light rail stop, a walk of about 100 metres. Take the light rail towards Lundtofte. It runs every five to eight minutes during the day on weekdays and Saturdays, every ten minutes in the evening and on Sundays. Three stops later you are at Akademivej (DTU), the first of two stops on campus.1 Under ten minutes.
  3. Walk. From the Akademivej stop, follow the tracks north for about 450 metres. Building 321 is on your left, just before the tracks bend east. Five or six minutes, depending on the weather and your attitude towards it.
  1. Nørreport (or any S-train station in town)
  2. S-train, line A towards Hillerød or line E towards Holte. About 15 minutes.
  3. Lyngby St. – off the S-train.
  4. On foot, through the tunnel from the platforms to the light rail stop. About 100 metres.
  5. Lyngby St., light rail stop.
  6. Light rail towards Lundtofte. Under 10 minutes.
  7. Lyngby Centrum
  8. Fortunbyen
  9. Akademivej (DTU) – get off here.
  10. On foot, north along the tracks. About 450 metres.
  11. Building 321, second floor, room 209.

All in all, something like half an hour from Nørreport. For live departures, rejseplanen.dk knows everything, and dinletbane.dk has the light rail timetable.

How often things run

LegWeekdays, daytimeEvenings and weekends
S-train, Nørreport to LyngbyAbout every 5 minutes (lines A and E, every 10 minutes each)Line A only: every 10 minutes during the day, every 20 in the evening
Light rail, Lyngby to Akademivej (DTU)Every 5–8 minutesEvery 10 minutes in the evening and on Sundays; Saturday daytime as on weekdays

The last 450 metres

Map of DTU Lyngby Campus with the light rail and the walk to Building 321 The light rail enters campus from the south along Lundtoftegårdsvej, runs west along Akademivej, north up Koppels Allé and east along Anker Engelunds Vej before leaving towards Rævehøjvej and Lundtofte. From the Akademivej stop it is about 450 metres north on foot to Building 321. Anker Engelunds Vej Akademivej Lundtoftegårdsvej Helsingørmotorvejen Akademivej (DTU) get off here Anker Engelunds Vej (DTU) Rævehøjvej bus 150S Building 321 my office, 2nd floor to Lyngby St. ↓ ↑ to Lundtofte 200 m N

If the map is being uncooperative, here is the same walk in Google Maps.

The bus, for traditionalists

Bus 150S (and its express sibling 15E) still runs from Nørreport up the motorway and drops you at Rævehøjvej, DTU in 25 minutes or so, traffic permitting. From there it is a 15-minute walk across campus to Building 321 – or, and I find this delightful, you can hop on the light rail right at the bus stop and ride a single stop to Anker Engelunds Vej (DTU), which leaves you a 500-metre walk.

University of Copenhagen

My Copenhagen home is SODAS, the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science, at CSS – the old Kommunehospitalet on Øster Farimagsgade 5, opposite the Botanical Garden. SODAS sits under the fancy dome (Building 1, second floor), and my desk is at the far end of the SODAS corridor, in the left wing: room 7.2.48. KU room numbers are a tiny addressing scheme – building 7, second floor, room 48 – which is more than most addresses tell you.

Getting there

Nørreport is the nearest station, about ten minutes on foot. Leave the station at the Gothersgade end and walk up Gothersgade, away from the city centre, with the Botanical Garden’s fence on your right. At Øster Farimagsgade the sprawling red-brick hospital straight ahead is CSS. Turn right, and the main gate is a couple of hundred metres on, on your left. Bus 14 stops right outside, if you prefer.

Map of the walk from Nørreport to CSS, the old Kommunehospitalet, on Øster Farimagsgade From Nørreport station, walk up Gothersgade along the Botanical Garden fence to Øster Farimagsgade. CSS is the red-brick hospital complex straight ahead across the crossing, opposite the Botanical Garden. Turn right along Øster Farimagsgade, enter the front garden at number 5 and go in through the left gate of Building 1, under the dome; the office is one building to the left, Building 7. Gothersgade Øster Farimagsgade Nørre Voldgade Nørreport S-train and metro Enter here Left gate of Building 1, then up to 7.2.48 the dome: Building 1, SODAS Botanical Garden CSS (Kommunehospitalet) 100 m N

Finding the office

  1. In through the left gate. Standing in front of the building, take the left-hand gate – “Enter here” in the helpful illustration below.
  2. Stairs, left. Just inside the gate there are stairs on both sides. Choose the ones on your left.
  3. Through to the central stairs. You come out in a large-ish room, and you will be able to see stairs. Cross the room to that central stairwell (there is an elevator in the middle of it) and go all the way to the top floor.
  4. Glass door, office. At the top, walk through the glass door and you can see the office. Room 7.2.48.

The CSS façade seen from the front garden: the left gate marked "Enter here", the top-floor windows of the left wing marked "We are up here, 7.2.48", and the dome marked "SODAS, Building 1".

Footnotes

  1. The next stop, Anker Engelunds Vej (DTU), by the main building, works almost as well. It is a coin toss, really – about 500 metres either way – but Akademivej comes first, and I am a man of simple heuristics. ↩