When travelling by car, please note that all public car parks are subject to charges (€2.50 per day) from Monday to Friday (6:00 to 18:00). The car park ticket machines only accept coins and do not accept change.

• A5 (Frankfurt – Heidelberg/ Basel) or A67 (Cologne/ Wiesbaden – Mannheim), exit ‘Darmstadt Stadtmitte’
• Federal road B3
• B 26 in the direction of the city centre (‘Rheinstraße’, ‘Cityring’, ‘Landgraf-Georg-Straße’, ‘Hanauer Straße’)
• Turn right into ‘Heinrichstraße’
• Turn left into ‘Eugen-Kogon-Straße’
• Straight ahead into ‘Franziska-Braun-Straße’

You can find an overview of the car parks on the Lichtwiese campus here (opens in new tab). The guest car parks are marked in blue.

Darmstadt is an ICE station and a stop for IC, EC and Interregio trains travelling north-south. In local public transport, Darmstadt is connected to the railway lines Frankfurt/Main – Heidelberg or Mannheim, Wiesbaden/Mainz – Aschaffenburg and Darmstadt – Erbach or Eberbach (Odenwald).

From the railway station, you can take the tram line 2 in the direction of ‘TU-Lichtwiese/Mensa’ to the terminus. Alternatively, you can take the bus line K to the Darmstadt Schloss stop and then change to the bus line L in the direction of ‘TU-Lichtwiese/Mensa’ and continue to the terminus ‘TU-Lichtwiese/Mensa’.

You can also take the Odenwaldbahn VIAs RB 81 to the TU-Lichtwiese stop.

Frankfurt Airport is 25 kilometres away. It can be reached by car/taxi in approx. 25 minutes via the A5 or A67 motorways or with the HEAG-Airliner shuttle bus (from Luisenplatz or Darmstadt main station).