Oryantasyon Kitapçığı - Öğrenci İşleri

Transportation
There are free shuttle services from the bus terminal (AŞTİ) to ODTÜ during September 2-5, 2013. Detailed information
can be found in the Registration Guide.
If you arrive in Ankara by bus, you can take the Ulus-ODTÜ dolmush or Ankara Municipality’s bus (EGO) numbered 417
in front of the bus terminal (AŞTİ). If you arrive by plane, from the airport take the HAVAŞ or EGO airport bus into the city.
The final stop is at AŞTİ, bus terminal.
NOT: Gerekli olduğu takdirde, kampus çarsında fotoğrafçı, kayıt salonu içinde ise fotokopi hizmeti bulunmaktadır.
a. Campus Transportation
The main entrance to the ODTÜ Campus, 7 km. to the city center, is Gate A1 on the Eskişehir highway. In addition to A1,
the gates A4, at the 100th-Year District end of campus, and A7, on the Bilkent road, can be used to enter and exit
Campus.
Access to the city is possible via the Ayrancı-ODTÜ, Ulus-ODTÜ and Kızılay-ODTÜ shuttle routes. The shuttles stop in
front of the Cafeteria until 18:00 hrs. on week days; after 18:00 hrs. and on weekends they stop in the East Dormitories
zone.
There are also Ankara Municipality’s bus services (EGO) for intra-city transportation. Detailed information about the
routes and hours of EGO buses is available at the URLs http://www.ego.gov.tr and http://www.tim.metu.edu.tr/ego.php.
It is possible to call a taxi from the dormitories at +90 (312) 219 5151 or +90 (534) 854 8684.
Campus-City ring bus services are scheduled to run at certain times of the day and frequent in-Campus ring bus
services (approx. every 15 min.) are available for students and staff.
There are also offices of certain intercity bus companies in the East Dormitories zone.
For a student reduction valid on the public transportation EGO, you need to obtain an EGO Stamp, “PASO”. You can
find information about how to get “PASO” from the web page: http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/student-id-card
Campus Ring Bus Services
Departure times of the ring bus services are listed at the URL http://tim.metu.edu.tr/Ringler, and rings that are on service
at the time of the query may be viewed at www.ring.metu.edu.tr.
b. Traffic Rules, Regulations and Penalties
In addition to the provisions of Law no. 4199 “Highway Traffic Code”, which entered into force on 27.10.1996, drivers
are to abide by the following measures and rules within campus to ensure driver and pedestrian safety and enable the
smooth running of the traffic. Those who breach these rules and regulations will be subjected to penalties and their
stickers will be invalidated.
• Drivers are to stop at the gates and make sure that the authorized personnel see their sticker before entering
Campus. It is mandatory that the sticker issued by the Directorate of Internal Affairs be affixed on the
windscreen of the vehicle. Cars without stickers may enter Campus on the condition that they obtain a
visitor’s card at one of the gates.
• To get a student sticker, you need to contact the Office of Internal Issues which is in the Presidency Building.
• Drivers are to park their vehicles in parking areas allocated for the type of sticker (color coded) they have.
The color codes are indicated on signboards bearing the letter “P” in parking areas.
• Academic / administrative staff and students have been allocated separate parking areas. Drivers may not
park in an area allocated for a different type of sticker even for a short period of time.
• Students having stickers for satellite parking areas may only park at the parking areas of the CCC and the
dormitories. Vehicles with local stickers (yellow) may also use the satellite parking areas.
• A sticker issued according to a person’s status may not be used by other persons or vehicles. Otherwise,
the sticker will be invalidated, and eligibility for another sticker will be lost.
• Drivers are not to park alongside or on the curb of any main artery.
• Drivers are to obey traffic signs, slow down at speed bumps and barriers, and abide by the warnings of
authorized persons.
• If a breach of rule (high speed, a faulty overtake, driving wrong way, a faulty U-turn, etc.) is detected, the
Traffic Authority will take action and if the breach is repeated, the vehicle will not be allowed into Campus
again.
• Motorbike riders are to get stickers and wear helmets.
• The speed limit on Campus is 50 km/hr, except for pedestrian-dense areas where it is 30 km/hr.
• Giving priority to pedestrians and wearing seatbelts at all times are imperative for the safety of all.
• Students staying at the dormitories are not issued local stickers.
If you have a driver license taken from your home country, you can change it to be able to use it in Turkey. For the licensing
process, you need to contact the Turkish National Police, Trafik Tescil Şube Müdürlüğü. For contact information, please
visit: http://trafiktescil.ankara.pol.tr/# .
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