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 5th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design
Toulouse, France, July 5-7, 2006
ROCOND 2006
Last updated : June 8, 2006

Conference venue

The conference site and the location of the social events are all in the city center, less than 10 minutes walk from each other.
  • Map of the conference and social events locations + airport shuttle bus stops: Plan_Toulouse.jpg
  • Map of the conference and social events locations + hotels location: plan_general.jpg
  • Map of the conference site - "manufacture des tabacs" (former tobacco factory, nowadays part of the Toulouse University): Manufacture.jpg
Pictures of the "manufacture des tabacs":
Main entrance
Views from outiside

Central square


Internet access

A free WiFi access will be available in the E building (registration desk, cafeteria).
Several  PC computers with Internet access will be  provided in room ME001.

Social events

  • July 4 starting at 6pm: Welcome reception at Hotel d'Assézat + visit of the Bemberg Foundation Museum
  • July 5 starting at 7 pm: Cocktail at Hotel de Ville (Town hall)
  • July 6 in the afternoon: Visit of the A380 factory (warning: registration ends on June 15th)
  • July 6 starting at 7:30pm: Conerence banquet at the "Hotel-Dieu"


Accommodation

A list of Hotels is available here.

Travel to Toulouse

  • Plane: Toulouse-Blagnac International Airport, the 5th largest in France with 5.6 millions passengers in 2004, is 15 minutes away from down-town and has connections with many European cities. It provides 37 regular routes among which 24 are international flights. Visit the site of the Toulouse-Blagnac airport: http://www.toulouse.aeroport.fr/fr/default.asp
  • Train: Its rail network (TGV) connects Toulouse to the main European cities. Consult the site of SNCF (French railroads): http://www.sncf.fr.
  • Car: A dense network of highways connects Toulouse to regional as well as international cities.
    • A 68 to Albi, Rodez
    • A 61 to Carcassonne, Montpellier, Lyon, Barcelona, Marseille, Nice, Genève
    • A 64 to Tarbes, Lourdes, Pau, Bayonne, St Sebastien, Bilbao, Madrid
    • A 62 to Bordeaux, Paris, Nantes, Rennes
    • A 20 Montauban, Cahors, Brive, Limoges, Paris
    • A 66 Pamiers, Foix
    • A 75 Béziers, Clermont-Ferrand, Millau

Getting to the center of Toulouse from the airport

There is a shuttle service that will take you from the airport to the the center of Toulouse. The fare for a single ticket is 3.20 Euros. At the airport, tickets may be purchased at the shuttle bus counter located on the arrivals level between Halls 1 & 2, directly on the bus when departing from Toulouse center, or at the Gare Routière (the bus terminal next to the train station). Below is the timetable of the airport shuttles (see the map of Toulouse for the shuttle stops). The shuttle leaves every 20 minutes.

Toulouse -> Airport
First departure every day at 5:00am
Last departure
  • at 08:20pm from Monday to Friday
  • at 07:40pm on Saturdays
  • at 08:20pm on Sundays and public holidays
Airport -> Toulouse
First departure
  • at 07:30am from Monday to Saturday
  • at 09:15am on Sundays and public holidays
To go directly from the airport to the conference site "Manufacture des tabacs": stop at ”centre Compans-Caarelli” (stop nb 5 on the map, first bus stop after the airport). The "Manufacture des Tabacs" is along the ”Canal de Brienne” at the right of the end of the boulevard ”Armand Duportal” (see the map of Toulouse).

Taxi: the fare for a taxi from the airport to any point will cost between 20 Euros and 25 Euros.

Transportation in Toulouse

Buses:
A bus/metro ticket, with a magnetic strip on the back, is the size of a credit card and can be used for either the bus or the metro. One fare entitles the holder to one transfer within an hour. There are many types available:
  • un déplacement (a single ride)
  • un ticket aller-retour (a round-trip ticket valid for one day)
  • dix déplacements (ten rides ticket)
  • ticket journalier (unlimited number of rides for one full day)
  • abonnement 7 jours (unlimited number of rides for one full week)
  • abonnement 31 jours (unlimited number of rides for one full month)
Tickets can be purchased on the bus or at many tobacco shops in Toulouse and surrounding communities, as well as TISSEO offices (http://www.tisseo.fr/). Merely waiting at a bus stop does not guarantee the bus will stop for you. As the bus approaches, raise your arm to hail the bus. Once aboard the bus, all tickets must be validated. To validate a ticket, insert it into the validation machine in the direction of the printed arrow. Keep the validated ticket until the end of your journey as fare inspectors randomly board the buses to verify that all passengers are holding validated tickets. Request the bus to stop by pressing the red button located on the chrome poles throughout the bus. An "arrêt demandé" (stop demand) will signal the driver to stop at the next bus stop. On most buses, the driver usually controls the opening and closing of the doors. On some buses, a button must be pushed to open the doors; such a button will be well marked and located near the doors.

Métro:
The underground (automatic underground railway) is linking down-town to Balma and Basso-Cambo suburban areas. A second underground line B is under construction and is scheduled to open in 2007. The system operates from 05:00 until 00:30, with trains leaving at two-, four-, or six- minute intervals, depending upon the time of day. Maps and details of the system are available at any metro station. Ticket prices are the same as with local buses and the tickets are interchangeable.

About Toulouse

General Information

  • Toulouse is the 4th largest town in France
  • Toulouse urban center population is 400,000
  • Toulouse suburban population is 750,000
  • 2nd French university campus with 100,000 students

Research, Education and Industry

Toulouse is one of the leading place in France for advanced technologies and in particular the aerospace industry.

Toulouse hosts several labs whose research activities are related to control: CERFACS, LAAS-CNRS, LEEI, LESIA, ONERA. Toulouse also hosts several universities and engineering schools: University Paul Sabatier, INSA, ENSAE, ENSICA, INP.

In this very favorable environment, many large companies and SMEs are located in Toulouse: Airbus France, Alcatel Space, EADS-Astrium, CNES, CS, Siemens, Thales, Thales Avionics ...

Some Web sites about Toulouse