Campus and services

Public transport

Bucharest’s public transport system is made up of the Bucharest Metro (signed with big "M"), and a surface transport system run by RATB , which consist in buses, trams, trolleybuses and light rail.

The city’s roads are usually very crowded during rush hours. Every day, there are more than one million vehicles travelling within the city.

Metro

The Metro is by far the fastest way to travel around the city, operated by the Metrorex. It is reliable, comfortable and easy to navigate in; the only downside is it does not cover all areas of Bucharest.

The metro trains schedule operate between 5:00-23:00.

For more information please visit http://www.metrorex.ro/prima_pagina_p1352-1

Buses & Trams

Bucharest has hundreds of bus and trolleybus routes, and tens of trams, serving every part of the city as well as a number of suburban villages and outposts.

Buses and trams run at frequent intervals from very early in the morning (around 04:30) to around 22:50 (earlier at weekends), after which the night buses takeover. These serve all areas of the capital throughout the night, with all routes departing from Piata Unirii. Most night bus services run at hourly intervals.

For more information please visit https://www.ratb.ro/

To get to UPB, you can use the following public transport:

  • Subway (subway stations Politehnica and Grozavesti);
  • Tram (tram lines 1, 10, 34, 11);
  • Bus (bus lines 336, 136);
  • Trolleybus (trolleybus lines 61 , 62 , 69, 90).

Taxi, ridesharing, car sharing

Taxi rides are in fact quite good and safe if you follow just a couple of simple steps

First of all they are cheap: just 1,39 ron (0.3 euro) per km, making them one of the cheapest in Europe and even in Romania. Secondly, they are fast, even (or because) the drivers are very experienced in traffic, know all the shortcuts to avoid traffic.

An official taxi has to be yellow, have the price written on the door (the standard and lowest is 1,39 but you can find more expensive also) and to have the company’s logo visible.

You can travel freely around the city with both taxi and ridesharing options (eg Uber, Yango, Bolt, Free-now, etc.) or car sharing (Spark, Pony, etc.).