Commuting
With the commutes of its approximately 8,700 employees and 32,000 students, the TU Dresden generates a significant share of the city's traffic. It is therefore important to take measures to make these journeys as environmentally friendly as possible. These measures include, for example, improving the conditions of the job ticket for employees, maintaining the semester ticket for students, as well as improvements for cyclists and pedestrians.
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Information on the environmental impact of the commutes of the members of the TU Dresden
For students, the individual car currently plays hardly any role in the choice of transport to the TU Dresden. In the 2018 survey, the proportion of students who came to the university by private car was about 4% .

How do students get to the TU Dresden?
This is not only due to the lower car availability among students, because after all, more than 30% of the students stated in the survey that they had access to a car. Also, in 2003, the share of car use among students at the TU Dresden was still 20%. The reason for the low car use among students in 2018 is largely due to the semester ticket. The share of public transport used by students to get to and back from the university is between 46% and 68%, depending on the season. The Semesterticket can therefore be rated as very effective in terms of an environmentally-oriented choice of transport. However, the semester ticket obviously also has the undesirable effect that in the 2018 survey period only 23% of the students came to the university by bicycle, while this proportion was 40% among the employees, despite the tendency toward further commutes and higher age among employees.

How do employees come to TU Dresden?
Of the employees, approx. 29% came to work by car in 2018. This share has decreased by 6 percentage points since 2008. The mode of transport has shifted more towards public transport and cycling. The job ticket is still quite uncommon among TU Dresden employees, as only 16% of the 25% of employees who used public transport to get to work had a job ticket.
The 29% share of MIV (motorized private transport) is already a comparatively good value when comparing it to the MIV share on average of the Dresden population for their commutes to work, which was still 40% even for domestic traffic, i.e. commutes that start and end in the Dresden city area. Among university employees bicycle use for the way to work is significantly higher than the average in Dresden.

Absolute CO2-equivalent emissions of students and employees on their way to and from university (2017).
As part of the HochN project, the CO2 emissions caused by the commutes of the members of TU Dresden were determined in 2017. The calculations showed that about 35,000 students emitted fewer greenhouse gases in total than the 8,200 employees. The adjacent figure shows the distribution of CO2 equivalent emissions for students and employees.

Specific CO2-equivalent emissions of students and employees traveling to and from the university in 2017 (annual emissions per person).
If we calculate the specific CO2-equivalent emissions per person (student and employee) from these figures, we find that employees cause five times the per capita emissions of students due to the higher proportion of cars. The 412 kg released per year is almost half of the long-term CO2 total target value of one ton of CO2 per person.
A mobility concept is currently being developed for the main campus of TU Dresden, which deals intensively with topics such as mobility management, parking space management and traffic space design. The mobility vision strives for an accessible, lively, sustainable and innovative TU campus with a high quality of outdoor areas. Fields of action are in particular the following:
- Attractiveness of active mobility in general (walking and conventional/electrically assisted cycling).
- Improving conditions for cyclists (parking facilities, infrastructure on the main campus, rental systems, service)
- Improvement of conditions and information on the job ticket
- Parking space management
- Innovative mobility solutions (e.g. job bike, company bikes, shared mobility, new concepts of micromobility, digital mobility)
Public transport
Travel planning and timetable information
On the following pages you can find timetable information for bus, streetcar and train:
Fahrplanauskunft Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) - for trams and buses in Dresden
Fahrplanauskunft Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) - for regional buses and trains
Fahrplanauskunft Deutsche Bahn - for all kinds of train travel: local - international
For students: The Semester Ticket
A semester ticket is available for students of the TU Dresden. Some routes of the Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) may also be used with it. Detailled information is available on the website of the Student Council of TU Dresden: http://www.stura.tu-dresden.de/semesterticket
For employees of the TU: The Jobticket
The Free State of Saxony offers a Jobticket for all employees and partly also for trainees. More information about the Jobticket in the VVO tariff area, which includes the Dresden area (DVB), can be found in the internal area of the TU website VVO-Jobticket". In addition, there are Jobticket framework agreements with other transport associations and Deutsche Bahn. Information on this can be found at "Weitere Jobticketverträge" in the internal area of the TU website.
By bike
Bike routes to the university and within Dresden
For planning inner-city trips by bike, Komoot offers good route suggestions.
Infrastructure for cyclists in Dresden and surroundings
Open Streetmap provides comprehensive information on parking spaces, air pumps and other infrastructure for cyclists. Details on air pumps, bike service stations and the self-help workshop on campus or in the vicinity of the TU: Mobility on Campus.
Bike und car sharing offers, MOBIpoints
On campus, Dresden Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) offers bikes and cars along with bike and car sharing companies:
Bikesharing MOBIbike / nextbike
A MOBIpoint on campus is located next to the the Potthoff-Bau. Here cars as well as bikes can be hired.
Commuter carpools and rideshares
Sächsische Energieagenetur (Saxon Energy Agency) launched the Commuter Network Saxony back in 2008 - an option to form car pools for the commute to work:
https://sachsen.pendlernetz.de/