How do I get to Inria Headquarters?

By shuttle

A free shuttle bus (coach with Inria panel on the windscreen) runs daily between Paris, Versailles and Inria Paris - Rocquencourt. Find below the details of schedules and stops on departure and arrival from Versailles or Paris.

Getting to the institute from Versailles

• 8h20 - Versailles Chantiers train station: the stop is on the sidewalk of La Poste at the intersection of rue des Etats Généraux and rue Benjamin Franklin.
• 8h25 - Versailles Préfecture
• 8h30 - Versailles Rive-Droite train station: same stop as the city buses, opposite when leaving the station.
• 8h45 - Inria

Back to Versailles

• 17h15 - Inria
• 17h25 - Versailles Rive Droite train station
• 17h30 - Versailles Préfecture
• 17h35 - Versailles Chantiers train station

Getting to the institute from Paris

• 8n30 - Place de l’Etoile : à l'angle de l'avenue Carnot
• 8h35 - Porte Dauphine : Place Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny - arrêt de bus angle Université Paris Dauphine
• 8h40 - Porte d’Auteuil : Place de la porte d'Auteuil, au niveau de la fontaine
• 9h10 - Inria 

Back to Paris

• 18h10 - Inria
• 18h40 - Porte d’Auteuil
• 18h50 - Porte Dauphine
• 19h - Place de l’Etoile

By public transport

From Orly airport (ORY)

• Take the shuttle Orlyval - Direction Antony to Antony
• Correspondence to Antony
• Take the RER B - Direction Saint Rémy-les-Chevreuses to the Massy Palaiseau train station
• Change at Massy Palaiseau Station
• Take the RER C - Direction Gare de Versailles Chantiers Station to Gare de Versailles Chantiers
• Reach Inria Rocquencourt from Versailles by urban buses

From Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG)

• Take the RER B - Direction Saint Rémy-Les-Chevreuses until Denfert-Rochereau
• Change at Denfert Rochereau RER station
• Take metro line 6 - Direction Charles de Gaulle, Etoile
• Stop Montparnasse-Bienvenue
• Change at Gare Montparnasse train Station
• Take a suburban train to Versailles Chantiers (Direction Chartres, Dreux, Mantes la Jolie, Plaisir Grignon, Rambouillet).
• Reach Inria Rocquencourt from Versailles by urban buses

Or

• Take the RER B - Direction Saint Remy-Les-Chevreuses until Saint Michel Notre-Dame
• Change at Saint Michel Notre-Dame
• Take the RER C - Direction Saint Quentin-En-Yvelines station
• Stop Gare de Versailles-Chantiers
• Reach Inria Rocquencourt from Versailles by urban buses

From Paris, Gare St-Lazare

• Take the train to  "Versailles-Rive Droite".

From Paris, Gare Montparnasse

• Take the train to "Versailles-Chantiers".

By RER A  to  "St Germain en Laye", "Poissy" or "Cergy". Chage at "Grande Arche de La Défense" and take the train (SNCF) to "Versailles-Rive Droite". By RER C  to "Versailles-Rive Gauche" ou pour "Versailles-Chantiers".

Once in Versailles, take the shuttle to Inria Rocquencourt.

Outside the shuttle bus hours, it is possible to reach Inria by urban buses from Versailles.

• Versailles bus routes and timetables

By car

From Paris

• Take "l'autoroute de l'Ouest" (A13 direction "Rouen").
• Then take exit n° 6, direction "St Germain en Laye, Versailles-Notre Dame".
• Turn left towards "Versailles".
• Then take the second on the right (about 200 m further on), direction "Bailly, Maule".
• Inria is 250 m on the right, after a BP petrol station.

The distance from Paris/periphery to the institute is about 20 km.