While you're in Denmark, you'll have 2 basic options for getting around: biking, and/or public transportation.
Pretty much everyone that I knew got a bike for their time in Denmark. There are always people buying and selling them on local websites, so you won't have much trouble finding one. I personally didn't get one because all of my classes were very close to Campus Village where I was living, so I never had to walk far. For everything else, there was public buses and trains.
- If you're going to bike, you don't have to worry about safety on the road too much, besides common sense.
- Make sure to buy a good lock.
- You'll have to do some maintenance, but there are some resources in and around DTU for that.
- Make sure to follow all the rules (like getting the proper lights, following bike lanes, etc) while biking. The fines are massive, and the police are strict on biking. And people will get mad at you.
Public transportation throughout Europe is amazing. To be completely honest, I'm a suburbs kid so I barely rode public transportation prior to college. I got some exposure to public buses at UIUC, but those were also pretty good because UIUC is not in a big city like Chicago. Regardless, I think I can safely say public transportation is much better in Europe than in the US. You'll probably be disappointed by the US's buses and trains when you come back.
Unfortunately, public transportation is crazy expensive in comparison to biking, so I did wish I had a bike for when I wanted to get groceries or a quick trip into the center of Lyngby. Danish buses and trains are, however, very punctual. They almost always arrive within a minute of their scheduled time based on my experience.
Most European cities have the same setup for their public transportation using a zone based system. The metropolitan area is broken up into radial zones coming out from the center of the city. The price of the ticket, regardless of if you're using a bus or a train, is based on how many zones you travel.
Make sure to get a zone map and price table when you're at the train station, and ask your international buddy for help.
One interesting thing I noticed about European buses, suburban trains, and intercity trains is that everything is very integrated at a city, country, and continent scale. For example, when going from Copenhagen to Hamburg, Germany by train, Deutsche Bahn and DSB (Danish trains) work together on the same train to provite service. I'll talk more about European trains in a separate post.
Taxis are basically just too expensive to really consider; don't even bother.
Pretty much everyone that I knew got a bike for their time in Denmark. There are always people buying and selling them on local websites, so you won't have much trouble finding one. I personally didn't get one because all of my classes were very close to Campus Village where I was living, so I never had to walk far. For everything else, there was public buses and trains.
- If you're going to bike, you don't have to worry about safety on the road too much, besides common sense.
- Make sure to buy a good lock.
- You'll have to do some maintenance, but there are some resources in and around DTU for that.
- Make sure to follow all the rules (like getting the proper lights, following bike lanes, etc) while biking. The fines are massive, and the police are strict on biking. And people will get mad at you.
Public transportation throughout Europe is amazing. To be completely honest, I'm a suburbs kid so I barely rode public transportation prior to college. I got some exposure to public buses at UIUC, but those were also pretty good because UIUC is not in a big city like Chicago. Regardless, I think I can safely say public transportation is much better in Europe than in the US. You'll probably be disappointed by the US's buses and trains when you come back.
Unfortunately, public transportation is crazy expensive in comparison to biking, so I did wish I had a bike for when I wanted to get groceries or a quick trip into the center of Lyngby. Danish buses and trains are, however, very punctual. They almost always arrive within a minute of their scheduled time based on my experience.
Most European cities have the same setup for their public transportation using a zone based system. The metropolitan area is broken up into radial zones coming out from the center of the city. The price of the ticket, regardless of if you're using a bus or a train, is based on how many zones you travel.
Make sure to get a zone map and price table when you're at the train station, and ask your international buddy for help.
One interesting thing I noticed about European buses, suburban trains, and intercity trains is that everything is very integrated at a city, country, and continent scale. For example, when going from Copenhagen to Hamburg, Germany by train, Deutsche Bahn and DSB (Danish trains) work together on the same train to provite service. I'll talk more about European trains in a separate post.
Taxis are basically just too expensive to really consider; don't even bother.
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