diff --git a/bootstrap/activateDatabaseLogging.sh b/bootstrap/activateDatabaseLogging.sh
index 24e5bf47b13f306f5807bb8959b4a515796df3d6..5b33762ca95f0a5a8efac811f1096bf15ad292c2 100755
--- a/bootstrap/activateDatabaseLogging.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/activateDatabaseLogging.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 #############################
-# This script creates postgis (and pgRouting) databases.
+# This script activates the postgresql database logging.
 #############################
 
 if [ "$EUID" -ne "0" ]; then
diff --git a/bootstrap/config.sh b/bootstrap/config.sh
index fa7048f029457fb4ad24c00c12f51799246b18f3..263ef8928f595309260b8daaea0ed0a798010571 100755
--- a/bootstrap/config.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/config.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #############################
-# This is used to configure the behaviout of the various bootstrap scripts.
+# This is used to configure the behavior of the various bootstrap scripts.
 #############################
 
 IMPORT_DATA_OSM=false
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ INSTALL_ISOCHRONE_DATAMODEL=true
 INSTALL_ISOCHRONE_TOOLS=true
 INSTALL_NEO4J=false
 INSTALL_NEO4J_SPATIAL=false
-INSTALL_PGROUTING=false
 INSTALL_POSTGIS=true
 INSTALL_POSTGRES=true
 INSTALL_POSTGRES_ADMIN=true
@@ -65,7 +64,6 @@ AVAILABLE_NEO4J=$([ -d "${DEPLOY_DIR}/neo4j" ] && echo true || echo false)
 AVAILABLE_NEO4J_SPATIAL=$([ -d "${DEPLOY_DIR}/neo4j-spatial" ] && echo true || echo false)
 AVAILABLE_POSTGRES=$(type ${EXEC_POSTGRES} >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo true || echo false)
 AVAILABLE_POSTGIS=$([ -f "${POSTGRES_SHARE}/extension/postgis.control" ] && echo true || echo false)
-AVAILABLE_PGROUTING=$([ -f "${POSTGRES_SHARE}/extension/pgrouting.control" ] && echo true || echo false)
 AVAILABLE_SPATIALITE_ADMIN=$([ -f "${DEPLOY_DIR}/phpliteadmin/phpliteadmin.config.php" ] && echo true || echo false)
 
 DOWNLOAD_DIR="${CACHE_DIR_LOCAL}/wget"
diff --git a/bootstrap/createDatabase.sh b/bootstrap/createDatabase.sh
index f53b5451b4a8cec2f94f1b0b387d82e49f5cec67..e7a554cea32be12755e0df2ca54189eaedcbf0e4 100755
--- a/bootstrap/createDatabase.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/createDatabase.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 #############################
-# This script creates postgis (and pgRouting) databases.
+# This script creates the postgis databases.
 #############################
 
 if [ "$EUID" -ne "0" ]; then
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@ if $AVAILABLE_POSTGRES; then
 		PGPASSWORD="$PG_DB_PASSWORD" ${EXEC_POSTGRES} -U "$PG_DB_USER" -h localhost -d "$PG_DB_NAME" -c "CREATE EXTENSION postgis;" >> $WORKING_DIR/setup_database.log 2>&1
 		PGPASSWORD="$PG_DB_PASSWORD" ${EXEC_POSTGRES} -U "$PG_DB_USER" -h localhost -d "$PG_DB_NAME" -f $SHARED_CONF_DIR/srid_82344_insert.sql >> $WORKING_DIR/setup_database.log 2>&1
 	fi
-	
-	if $AVAILABLE_PGROUTING; then
-		echo "Registering pgRouting extension for database \"$PG_DB_NAME\""
-		PGPASSWORD="$PG_DB_PASSWORD" ${EXEC_POSTGRES} -U "$PG_DB_USER" -h localhost -d "$PG_DB_NAME" -c "CREATE EXTENSION pgRouting;" >> $WORKING_DIR/setup_database.log 2>&1
-	fi
 
 	if $AVAILABLE_ISOCHRONE_DATAMODEL; then
 		echo "Initializing database schema for isochrone-datamodel (used for testing, ...)"
diff --git a/bootstrap/importData.sh b/bootstrap/importData.sh
index 0ff96e7de004cd7b1b548b9e288ab30e9c3050d9..193022bca8c893d3a6c1c4dffd274a03c84fb193 100755
--- a/bootstrap/importData.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/importData.sh
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ fn_import_data() {
 			VALID_SQL=true
 		fi
 	fi
-	if ( $AVAILABLE_PGROUTING || $AVAILABLE_NEO4J_SPATIAL ) && ( $IMPORT_DATA_OSM_CACHED || $IMPORT_DATA_OSM ); then
+	if ( $AVAILABLE_NEO4J_SPATIAL ) && ( $IMPORT_DATA_OSM_CACHED || $IMPORT_DATA_OSM ); then
 		# osm data does not need to be downloaded (since it would not be imported afterwards)
 		VALID_OSM=true
 	fi
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ fn_import_data() {
 	fi
 
 	if ! $VALID_OSM; then
+		# sql export has been handeled above -> if no data from osm should be used then we can return here
 		return 0
 	fi
 
@@ -138,14 +139,6 @@ fn_import_data() {
 		fi
 	fi
 
-	if $AVAILABLE_PGROUTING; then
-		echo "  - importing filtered OpenStreetMap data into pgRouting"
-		$DEPLOY_DIR/osm2pgrouting/build/osm2pgrouting -file "$DATA_DIR/$OSM_FILE_FILTERED" -conf "$OSM2PGROUTING_MAPPING_CONF" -dbname $PG_DB_NAME -user $PG_DB_USER -passwd $PG_DB_PASSWORD -clean -prefixtables $TABLE_PREFIX >> "import_osm2pgrouting_$NAME.log" 2>&1
-
-		echo "  - creating pgRouting topology"
-		PGPASSWORD="$PG_DB_PASSWORD" psql -U "$PG_DB_USER" -h localhost -d "$PG_DB_NAME" -c "SELECT pgr_createTopology('${TABLE_PREFIX}ways', $TOPOLOGY_TOLERANCE, 'the_geom', 'gid');" >> "$WORKING_DIR/setup_database_$NAME.log" 2>&1
-	fi
-
 	if $AVAILABLE_NEO4J_SPATIAL; then
 		echo "  - importing filtered OpenStreetMap data into neo4j-spatial"
 		cd $DEPLOY_DIR/neo4j-spatial
diff --git a/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh b/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
index 3e3a3782a11cd42b738ee186789dbd534653031f..0ca4a71381ec082b8180d4646893459c257583d0 100755
--- a/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
 #   - neo4j-spatial
 #   - postgresql
 #   - postgis
-#   - pgRouting
 #   - osmosis
-#   - osm2pgrouting
 # into a centos6 (32bit and 64bit) or centos7 (64bit only) environment.
 #
 # It can be used in the context of a Vagrantfile to configure a vagrant box and all
@@ -85,9 +83,6 @@ NEXUS_RELEASE_ISOCHRONE_WEB="$NEXUS_BASE_URL/service/local/artifact/maven/conten
 NEXUS_SNAPSHOT_ISOCHRONE_WEB="$NEXUS_BASE_URL/service/local/artifact/maven/content?r=$NEXUS_PUBLIC_REPO&g=at.uibk.dbis&a=$NEXUS_ARTIFACT_NAME_WEB&v=LATEST&p=war"
 NEXUS_SNAPSHOT_ISOCHRONE_TOOLS="$NEXUS_BASE_URL/service/local/artifact/maven/content?r=$NEXUS_PUBLIC_REPO&g=at.uibk.dbis&a=$NEXUS_ARTIFACT_NAME_TOOLS&v=LATEST&c=all&p=jar"
 NEXUS_SNAPSHOT_ISOCHRONE_DATAMODEL="$NEXUS_BASE_URL/service/local/artifact/maven/content?r=$NEXUS_PUBLIC_REPO&g=at.uibk.dbis&a=$NEXUS_ARTIFACT_NAME_DATAMODEL&v=LATEST&c=all&p=jar"
-OSM2PGROUTING_GIT_URL="https://github.com/pgRouting/osm2pgrouting.git"
-OSM2PGROUTING_VERSION="v2.0.0"
-OSM2PGROUTING_MAPPING_CONF="$DEPLOY_DIR/osm2pgrouting/mapconfig.xml"
 OSMOSIS_VERSION="0.43.1"
 OSMOSIS_FILE="osmosis-$OSMOSIS_VERSION.zip"
 OSMOSIS_DOWNLOAD_URL="http://bretth.dev.openstreetmap.org/osmosis-build/$OSMOSIS_FILE"
@@ -100,9 +95,6 @@ POSTGRESQL_DATA_DIR="/var/lib/pgsql/data"
 POSTGRESQL_SERVICE_NAME="postgresql"
 POSTGRESQL_SHORT_VERSION=""
 POSTGRESQL_VERSION=""
-PGROUTING_GIT_URL="https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting.git"
-PGROUTING_VERSION="auto"      # activate to install from repository
-#PGROUTING_VERSION="2.0.0"    # activate to install from source
 REPO_ELGIS="none"
 REPO_EPEL="none"
 REPO_POSTGRESQL="none"        # will be set later (depending on architecture)
@@ -201,9 +193,6 @@ fi
 if $INSTALL_ISOCHRONE_TOOLS || $INSTALL_ISOCHRONE_DATAMODEL || $INSTALL_TOMCAT || $INSTALL_GEOSERVER || $INSTALL_NEO4J || $INSTALL_NEO4J_SPATIAL || $IMPORT_DATA_OSM; then
 	INSTALL_JAVA=true
 fi
-if $INSTALL_PGROUTING; then
-	INSTALL_POSTGIS=true
-fi
 if $INSTALL_POSTGRES_ADMIN || $INSALL_POSTGIS; then
 	INSTALL_POSTGRES=true
 fi
@@ -279,7 +268,7 @@ if [ ! $REPO_ELGIS == "none" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ ! $REPO_EPEL == "none" ]; then
-	# Epel Repository is needed for dependencies (gdal!) of postgresql/postgis/pgRouting
+	# Epel Repository is needed for dependencies (gdal!) of postgresql/postgis
 	echo "Installing epel repository"
 	fn_download $DOWNLOAD_DIR/epel-repo.rpm $REPO_EPEL
 	yum -y localinstall $DOWNLOAD_DIR/epel-repo.rpm >> $WORKING_DIR/install_epel_repo.log 2>&1
@@ -330,13 +319,6 @@ if $INSTALL_POSTGIS; then
 		echo "  - postgis $POSTGIS_VERSION"
 	fi
 fi
-if $INSTALL_PGROUTING; then
-	if [ "$PGROUTING_VERSION" == "auto" ]; then
-		echo "  - pgRouting"
-	else
-		echo "  - pgRouting $PGROUTING_VERSION"
-	fi
-fi
 if $INSTALL_SPATIALITE; then echo "  - spatialite $SPATIALITE_VERSION"; fi
 if $INSTALL_SPATIALITE_ADMIN; then echo "  - phpLiteAdmin $PHPLITEADMIN_VERSION"; fi
 if $INSTALL_TOMCAT; then echo "  - tomcat $TOMCAT_VERSION"; fi
@@ -405,38 +387,6 @@ if $INSTALL_POSTGRES_ADMIN; then
 	yum -y install phpPgAdmin >> $WORKING_DIR/install_phpPgAdmin.log 2>&1
 fi
 
-if $INSTALL_PGROUTING; then
-	if [ "$PGROUTING_VERSION" == "auto" ]; then
-		echo "Installing pgRouting (from repository)"
-		yum -y install pgrouting_$POSTGRESQL_SHORT_VERSION >> $WORKING_DIR/install_pgRouting.log 2>&1
-	else
-		echo "Installing pgRouting dependencies"
-		yum -y install boost-devel $POSTGRESQL_PKG_NAME-devel $POSTGRESQL_PKG_NAME-libs postgis2_$POSTGRESQL_SHORT_VERSION-devel >> $WORKING_DIR/install_pgRouting_deps.log 2>&1
-
-#		echo "Installing CGAL 4.3"
-#		fn_download_newer $DOWNLOAD_DIR/CGAL-4.3.zip https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/32996/CGAL-4.3.zip
-#		cp $DOWNLOAD_DIR/CGAL-4.3.zip $DEPLOY_DIR/CGAL-4.3.zip
-#		unzip -o -d $DEPLOY_DIR $DEPLOY_DIR/CGAL-4.3.zip >> $WORKING_DIR/install_cgal.log 2>&1
-#		cd $DEPLOY_DIR/CGAL-4.3
-#		cmake . >> $WORKING_DIR/install_cgal.log 2>&1
-#		make >> $WORKING_DIR/install_cgal.log 2>&1
-#		make install >> $WORKING_DIR/install_cgal.log 2>&1
-#		cd $WORKING_DIR
-
-		echo "Installing pgRouting $PGROUTING_VERSION (from source)"
-		git clone -q "$PGROUTING_GIT_URL" $DEPLOY_DIR/pgRouting-$PGROUTING_VERSION
-		ln -sf $DEPLOY_DIR/pgRouting-$PGROUTING_VERSION $DEPLOY_DIR/pgRouting
-		cd $DEPLOY_DIR/pgRouting
-		git checkout -q pgrouting-$PGROUTING_VERSION >> /dev/null 2>&1
-		mkdir build
-		cd build
-		cmake -DWITH_DD=OFF -DBoost_DIR:PATH=/usr/lib64/boost -DPOSTGRESQL_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH="$PostgreSQL_ROOT"/bin/postgres -DPOSTGRESQL_PG_CONFIG:FILEPATH="$PostgreSQL_ROOT"/bin/pg_config .. >> $WORKING_DIR/install_pgRouting.log 2>&1
-		make >> $WORKING_DIR/install_pgRouting.log 2>&1
-		make install >> $WORKING_DIR/install_pgRouting.log 2>&1
-		cd $WORKING_DIR
-	fi
-fi
-
 if $INSTALL_JAVA; then
 	echo "Installing java (oracle jdk-$JAVA_VERSION)"
 	fn_download_newer $DOWNLOAD_DIR/$JAVA_FILE $CACHE_DIR_REMOTE_ISO/$JAVA_FILE
@@ -620,23 +570,6 @@ if $IMPORT_DATA_OSM; then
 	chmod a+x $DEPLOY_DIR/osmosis/bin/osmosis
 fi
 
-if ( $IMPORT_DATA_OSM || $IMPORT_DATA_OSM_CACHED ) && $INSTALL_PGROUTING; then
-	echo "Installing osm2pgrouting dependencies"
-	yum install -y expat-devel boost-devel $POSTGRESQL_PKG_NAME-devel >> $WORKING_DIR/install_osm2pgrouting_deps.log 2>&1
-
-	echo "Installing osm2pgrouting $OSM2PGROUTING_VERSION"
-	git clone -q "$OSM2PGROUTING_GIT_URL" $DEPLOY_DIR/osm2pgrouting-$OSM2PGROUTING_VERSION
-	ln -sf $DEPLOY_DIR/osm2pgrouting-$OSM2PGROUTING_VERSION $DEPLOY_DIR/osm2pgrouting
-
-	cd $DEPLOY_DIR/osm2pgrouting
-	git checkout -q $OSM2PGROUTING_VERSION >> /dev/null 2>&1
-	cmake -H. -Bbuild >> $WORKING_DIR/install_osm2pgrouting.log 2>&1
-	cd build/
-	make >> $WORKING_DIR/install_osm2pgrouting.log 2>&1
-	make install >> $WORKING_DIR/install_osm2pgrouting.log 2>&1
-	cd $WORKING_DIR
-fi
-
 if $INSTALL_SPATIALITE; then
 	echo "Installing spatialite dependencies"
 	yum -y install sqlite-devel zlib-devel proj-devel freexl-devel geos-devel libxml2-devel >> $WORKING_DIR/install_spatialite_deps.log 2>&1