NEW MINI-BUS
TRANSPORTATION AT
COMPETITIVE PRICES TO AND FROM AIRPORTS, AVAILABLE TO VISITORS &
ICTP STAFF
Science-Bus, a
newly created and
reliable shuttle mini-bus service, offers direct transportation in 8
seat
modern mini buses to and from ICTP and the nearest airports Trieste/
Ronchi dei
Legionari, Venice, Treviso and Ljubliana. It also serves other
scientific institutions.
Any visitor or
ICTP staff may use
the service, also for private travels.
This service improves and facilitates the connection to and from
the
airports. Guests staying at the Adriatico or Galileo Guesthouses will
have
"door to door" transportation without having to walk up or down from
the main street /Strada Costiera carrying heavy luggage, as is the case
for the
regular airport bus 51 to Ronchi.
BOOK VIA INTERNET
MINIMUM 2 DAYS IN
BEFOREHAND:
1) Get a special
voucher number
beforehand (this allows access to the discounted ICTP tariff) from any
of the
following ICTP offices: Transportation (zerial@ictp.it), Operations &
Travel, the receptions of the Adriatico and Galileo Guesthouses, Info Point in the Leonardo
Building.
Each number is for
one person only,
if there are more persons, more numbers are
required.
2) Go to the web
site: www.science-bus.com
3) Insert the
voucher number in the
window of the web site and book the mini-bus transportation required,
indicating
all details (arrival or departure time, wanted pick-up or drop-off
place,
contact telephone number and number of luggage items).
4) Science-Bus
will give you an e-mail
confirmation and indicate the pick-up time for out-going travelers.
Trips may be
booked also without
voucher numbers, but then the regular price will be charged.
TRAVELLERS MUST
NOT BE LATE AT THE PICK-UP TIME SINCE THERE MAY BE
OTHER TRAVELLERS ON BOARD ALSO IN NEED OF REACHING THE AIRPORT IN TIME.
CASH PAYMENT in
EURO must be made
to the driver of the bus on the spot. Credit cards are not accepted.
ICTP Discounted
fares, one-way/head, are:
ICTP/Trieste - Ronchi Eur. 13.80
ICTP/Trieste -
Venice or Treviso Eur.
44,40
ICTP/Trieste - Ljubljana Eur. 72,00
FOR INCOMING
TRAVELLERS:
The driver will be
waiting for
incoming travelers INSIDE the airport, with their names written on a
sign.
EXTRA COSTS FOR
DELAYS
If, due to late
arrival of the
incoming plane or problems with the luggage, the traveler is delayed
for more
than 60 minutes, calculated as time from the planned flight arrival and
when
the traveler joins the driver, a waiting fee of 5,50 euro will be
charged per each
additional 15 minutes.
ICTP PICK-UP and
DROP-OFF PLACES
Travelers can
request pick-up from
any of the places listed below.
From
the Galileo and/or Adriatico
guesthouses, BUT NOT from the Leonardo Building. And also from
any of the below-listed places.
ICTP incoming
travelers booked at Hotel Riviera, Miramare Hotel or
Greif Hotel can - at the time of booking the transportation - request
to be
dropped off at these hotels. However,
they are not pick-up places. Drop-off
at these three hotels will not be done if only asked to the driver,
it has to be requested during the booking.
ALL PICK-UP and
DROP-OFF PLACES:
- Railway station
(arrival/departure)
- Piazza Oberdan -
Palazzo Regione (arrival/departure)
- Hotel Savoia
(departure) Via del
Mandracchio
- Hotel Savoia
(arrival) Via di
Mercato Vecchio
- Università - Via
Valerio (Petrol
Station)
- Basovizza
(arrival/departure) Via
Kosovel, Center Hotel
- Sincrotrone
(Elettra) Parking lot, bus stop 39 and 51
- Area di Ricerca
(Padriciano) (arrival/departure)
- Banne
(arrival/departure) Hotel Alla
Valle di Banne, via di Basovizza
- Opicina, Via
Nazionale last bus
stop Tram 4
- Quadrivio di
Opicina
(arrival/departure for OGS)
- SISSA new
premises
(arrival/departure) Via Bonomea (ex Ospedale Santorio)
- ICTP Adriatico Guesthouse (arrival/departure, main entrance)
- ICTP Galileo
Guesthouse (arrival/departure, main entrance)
- Redipuglia (only
for Venice and
Treviso)
ICTP STAFF ON
MISSION
If the Science-Bus
is used on
mission, staff should pay the bus cost and get reimbursed via the
terminal allowance,
if entitled to such. In case of penalties to be paid due to the late
arrival of
the airplane, and the total amount exceeds the terminal allowance, the
paid
total should be claimed and reimbursed. Transportation
to or from the Venice, Treviso and Ljubljana
airports would be reimbursed, thus replacing the terminal allowance.
Alternatively, for duty travels for which terminal allowance would be
due, the
Science-Bus booking can be done with a special voucher number that
Science-Bus
will invoice ICTP. Requests for such invoiced transportation should be
made to
the ICTP Transportation Office, and include the budget code to which
the cost
should be charged.
ICTP's
Transportation office will continue
to provide transportation services to special categories of visitors or
staff,
especially during normal working hours.
Have a good trip.
Dag Harald Johannessen