Travel
Conference Site:
Higgins Labs
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609
You can find more details in this campus map.
Coming to the campus:
By car: Directions to drive to the campus can be found here. An one-day parking permit will be sent to the participants for parking in the campus parking lot. Please print out the parking permit and put it on your dashboard when you park at the designated visitor's spaces. More details on campus parking can be found here. Street parking is also available in most streets surrounding campus.
By bus: The station for Greyhound and Peter Pan is located in Worcester Union Station. From the Union Station, you can use taxi/Uber/Lyft or walk to the campus. See map.
By commuter rail: The schedule for the commuter rail from Boston South Station to Worcester Union Station can be found here. From the Union Station, you can use taxi/Uber/Lyft or walk to the campus. See map.
By air: If you arrive at Boston's Logan Airport, there are several options: 1) WPI is one-hour drive from Boston's Logan Airport. There are plenty of car rental agencies at the airport. 2) Airport shuttle service is available from Logan airport to WPI. For example, you can use Knight's Airport Limosine Service . It takes about 90 minutes after pick-up, two hours during rush hour. 3) The Silver Line bus picks up at every Logan Airport terminal, with connections to Commuter Rail at South Station in downtown Boston. From South Station, you can take the commuter rail to arrive at Worcester.
Other convenient commercial airports are in Providence RI, Hartford CT, and Manchester NH. Ten minutes away is a general aviation airport, the Worcester Regional Airport.