General Information / Transport in Budapest

There is a rather good network of three metro lines, trams, buses and trolley buses in Budapest. The operator is the Budapest Transport Limited, it is possible to visit its homepage www.bkv.hu for more information about the schedules (including night traffic), tickets and route schemes. For exact travel plans please visit www.utvonalterv.hu this page can calculate with public transport also.

The tickets for tram, metro, bus and trolleybus are the same. One single ticket costs 230 Ft purchasing by kiosks and 260 Ft on the vehicles. There are special transfer tickets, discount coupon books, one/three/seven day tickets, which can be purchase only by the ticket offices of the company. Network maps are also found there. You can find offices by main traffic junctions, bus terminals and metro stations, including all train stations. For participants are arriving via airplane, it is necessary to buy a single ticket at the airport for the bus Nr. 200, and the nearest ticket office is operating by the Kőbánya-Kispest metro station.

Now a new metro line is under construction in Budapest, it causes some difficulties, road closures and route changes in the Southern part of Buda, in the victimity of the conference.