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Benchmarking Sustainable Mobility in Higher Education
- University of Bari Aldo Moro
- Università di Foggia
Sustainable mobility is an increasingly significant issue that both public and private organizations consider in order to reduce emissions by their members. In this paper, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Bicycle Fleet Expansion
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
As part of our commitment with the environment, our community and as a Bicycle Friendly University, we have expanded our bike fleet in order to keep up with the high ...
- Posted Feb. 23, 2023
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Reducing the carbon footprint in college mobility: The car commuters' perspective in an Italian case study
- Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Despite the negative environmental impact of private cars, especially when driven alone, thousands of college commuters around the World are still car dependent. In order to promote eco-friendly commuting and ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Managing campus parking demand through course scheduling – an approach to campus sustainability
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- University of Louisville (KY)
Using the University of Louisville as a case study, this study deploys a three-step analytical process to examine the correlation between parking demand and course enrollment, estimate parking demand based ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Mobility and sustainable transportation in higher education: evidence from Monterrey Metropolitan Area in Mexico
- Universidad autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Nuevo Leon)
This paper aims to analyze the demand for mobility in higher education to understand the critical elements of students' mobility and the potential impact of accessing sustainable alternatives. The demand ...
- Posted April 29, 2022
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Transportation Demand Management: Arguments for the Diversification of Mobility
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
The statement "we have a parking problem" is all too common on University campuses. However, parking is usually not the root problem. The root problem is the transportation ecosystem serving ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Alternative transportation education: implementing an innovative module
- Colorado State University (CO)
Purpose This study aims to investigate the Colorado state university (CSU) MOVES online, transportation module, which was implemented for the dual purpose of promoting alternative modes of transportation and while ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Predictors of public transport use among university students during the winter: A MIMIC modelling approach
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The current study aimed to examine attitudinal factors underlying the use of public transport in winter among university students. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted among 441 students at the ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Mineta Transportation Institute
- San Jose State University (CA)
MTI provides the highest-quality support for surface transportation researchers, planners, managers, educators, and elected officials, all filtered through the lens of our urban academic home in the heart of Silicon ...
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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Rivalry, excludability and positive transport externalities – case study of a private university in Poland
- University of Wroclaw/Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Wrocław)
Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of rivalry and excludability in transport systems on the positive external effects important for the functioning of a large ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Transportation Project Final Report
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Project Name: Transportation Project Project Mentors: Anthony Coschignano and Greg Brown Project board members, faculty advisor, and sustainability sage: Anthony Coschignano, Greg Brown, Chris Kane, Alice Turbiville, Brenna Leary, Rachel ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Parking demand management in a relatively uncongested university setting
- McMaster University (ON)
- Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) (ON)
Although travel demand management (TDM) has featured more prominently in transportation planning and programs, its role in a university context is still emerging. University TDM efforts hold much potential, but ...
- Posted April 30, 2019
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The concept of woonerf zone applied in university campuses: the case of the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Kentriki Makedonia)
In this paper, the concept of transferring the idea of woonerf zone from residential areas to university campuses is examined and the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Best Option For Reducing On-Campus Private Car-Based CO2 Emissions: Reducing VKT Or Congestion?
- Middle East Technical University
Reducing carbon footprint, especially from private cars, is an inevitable goal of sustainable transportation programs. Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, has a fairly large campus, for which ...
- Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Moving the Needle on Commute Mode through Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
- Cornell University (NY)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
- AASHE (PA)
Offering sustainable transportation options to students and staff is the easy part. What more can you do to foster improvements in sustainable commute mode share? Transportation demand management (TDM) professionals ...
- Posted June 30, 2017
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Transportation: How to Get 25% of Points Required for STARS Bronze
- WELLS + Associates (VA)
Six out of twenty-five points required for STARS Bronze can be achieved through Transportation (OP19-OP21). All you need to do is survey your students and employee to measure their Commute ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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The impact of transportation demand management policies on commuting to college facilities: A case study at the University of Trieste, Italy
Universities, like other types of public and private institutions, when located in a city, have both positive and negative impacts on the area where they are situated. On the one ...
- Posted Oct. 27, 2016
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Travel, transport and energy implications of university-related student travel: A case study approach
- University College Dublin, National University of Ireland
This study highlighted significant cultural differences and complexity in travel behaviour associated with travel to university across the UK and Ireland. This paper examines university travel behaviours and the implications ...
- Posted Oct. 27, 2016
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Proactive sustainable university transportation: Marginal effects, intrinsic values, and university students' mode choice
- University of Queensland (QLD)
In the United States, millions of university students drive alone to school. Therefore, decreasing driving alone and related car dependence among university students is as important as doing that among ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Non-motorized transport and university populations: an analysis of connectivity and network perceptions
- University of Alabama (AL)
This research examines local bicycle and pedestrian networks in the vicinity of the University of Alabama campus to assess the utility of these networks for travel to the university by ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Travel behavior of university students who live on campus: A case study of a rural university in Asia
With their irregular class schedules and considerable freedom in the campus environment, university students are an example of a social group that tends to have complex and unique travel behavior ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Invisible commuters: assessing a university’s eco-friendly transportation policies and commuting behaviours
- Alabama State University (AL)
- Tulane University (LA)
- The University of New Mexico (NM)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
To assess the efficacy of a private university’s environmentally friendly transportation policies, we administered a transportation and energy-use phone survey to a random sample of faculty, non-professional staff, and ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Measuring the potential for bicycling and walking at a metropolitan commuter university
- University of Michigan-Flint (MI)
An attitudinal survey was disseminated to faculty, staff, and students at a metropolitan commuter university with the objective to ascertain what travel demand management (TDM) strategies will increase bicycling and ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Using parking pricing as a travel demand management tool at a university campus: an example for Istanbul Technical University
This study investigates the potential effects of parking pricing on the private vehicle use of residents of the campuses of large compounds such as universities. For this purpose, a parking ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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The Paradox of Public Transport Peak Spreading: Universities and Travel Demand Management
- University of Sydney (NSW)
The characteristics which make public transport attractive and contribute to high public transport use by specific market segments create the paradox in which encouragement of peak spreading of public transport ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Commuting to college: The effectiveness and social efficiency of transportation demand management policies
Commuting is the single largest impact a University has on the environment and represents a noticeable share of urban traffic, when the University is located within a city. There is ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2016
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Commuting Behavior and Transportation Preferences of the CSUN Community
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
In 2010 California State University, Northridge (CSUN) conducted its first complete survey of the commuting habits of its staff, faculty and students. Here we report on the results of our ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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College campuses are working to lessen parking pains
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
- Loyola Marymount University (CA)
- Santa Monica College (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Campuses are building new lots, but also promoting bike-sharing, subsidizing bus passes, joining forces with Uber to create car pools and looking at other alternatives to reduce pressure on campus ...
- Posted May 3, 2016
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A New Course: How Innovative University Programs Are Reducing Driving on Campus and Creating New Models for Transportation Policy
Universities and colleges across the country are taking steps to encourage their communities, students, faculty and staff to decrease their reliance on personal vehicles. These efforts are working well – saving ...
- Posted March 29, 2016
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Parking is Not Free: How Sustainable Transportation is Paying Off
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
- Yale University (CT)
- Nelson/Nygaard (CA)
Sustainable campus transportation is not just a commitment or environmental goal, it is becoming a financial necessity that institutions large, small, rich, and poor are trying to implement smartly. Demand ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Applying geographic information systems (GIS) and survey data to transportation demand management
- Skyline College (CA)
- University of San Francisco (CA)
In 2013, Skyline College launched a transportation initiative to improve access for students and employees and make travel to campus more efficient and equitable while reducing reliance on single-occupancy vehicles ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Redefining Campus Mobility
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- West Virginia University (WV)
One common issue: How can a campus and its local community redefine mobility to be less reliant on automobile infrastructure such as parking and the single occupancy vehicle in a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainable Transportation at Stanford University: The Role of TDM
- Stanford University (CA)
Stanford has achieved various transportation related sustainability milestones in 2010 through its Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Program. This year, the university estimates an employee drive alone rate of 48%, dropped ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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University Transportation Demand Management
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This presentation will focus on sustainable transportation options presented through transportation demand management programs at three different universities, in three different environments. 1) Large Urban (TBA) 2) University Town (UNC-Chapel ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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From Here to There: Transportation Demand Strategies to support The Grounds Plan at the University of Virginia
- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (MA)
The University of Virginia recently completed an update of its Grounds Plan, a plan that establishes a framework for future growth of the campus. As part of the Grounds Plan ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Going Green with TDM: Developing, Marketing and Evaluating a Transportation Demand Management Program
- Stanford University (CA)
To meet the university's goal of no net new peak hour commute trips over the course of the next 15 years and as part of an over campus effort ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Moving People, Moving Forward: TDM at UBC
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus is home to over 44,000 students, 12,000 staff and faculty, and 3,000 market residents, and remains one of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Transportation Demand Management at North American Colleges and Universities
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
From 2006 through 2007, the Environmental Center of the University of Colorado at Boulder, along with the College of Architecture and Planning, surveyed a total of nearly 60 leading North ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Alternative Work Site (AWS) Pilot - A Transportation Demand Management, TDM, Project to Implement Flex Schedules to Reduce GHG Emissions and Parking Demand
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
In fulfillment of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, the State of Colorado's Climate Action Plan, and the 2007 UCCS Sustainability Strategic Plan, the University of Colorado ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Transport Management: Trip Reduction Programs on College, University and Research Campuses
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute (BC)
Campus Transport Management programs are coordinated efforts to improve transportation options and reduce trips at colleges, universities and other campus facilities. TDM tends to be particularly effective and appropriate in ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Sustainable Transportation Policy at Cal Poly Pomona: An Alternative Outlook
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
This report documents an initiative to create a sustainable transportation policy that would reduce the amounts of students who travel to campus alone by private vehicle at California Polytechnic University ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Transportation Demand Management at the University of Toronto: Context and Financial Feasibility
- University of Toronto (ON)
This study was conducted as a second year Research Opportunity Program at the University of Toronto from October 2006 to April 2007. The scope of the project encompasses research from ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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UC Davis Alternative Transportation and Parking Investment Study
- University of California, Davis (CA)
The purpose of this study is to examine the potential for the University of California at Davis (UCD) to invest in expanding its alternative transportation programs (ATP) as a means ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Social Sustainability of Alternate Transportation Modes at the University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
A clear understanding of the social factors that influence transportation choice will enable the University of British Columbia to improve the existing portfolio of demand management strategies, including the student ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Transportation-focused Generic Environmental Impact Statement
- Cornell University (NY)
Addresses potential transportation impacts of Cornell population growth over next ten years.
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Solving Campus Parking Shortages: New Solutions for an Old Problem
Universities and colleges across the country are faced with growth in the campus population and the loss of surface parking lots for new buildings. The response of many institutions is ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues, Examples, Solutions
Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities presents a comprehensive examination of techniques available to manage transportation in campus communities. Authors Will Toor and Spenser W. Havlick give readers the understanding they ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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The Road Less Traveled: Sustainable Transportation for Campuses
Provides a survey of innovative approaches to campus transportation in the United States. Explains that the high costs of parking expansion have propelled many institutions toward a transportation demand management ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Universities and public transit agencies in the United States have together invented an arrangement—called Unlimited Access—that provides fare-free transit service for all students (and, on some campuses, faculty ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Can CU Grow Without Adding Cars?
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The answer may well be yes, based upon the experience at other major research institutions around the country. Stanford University has grown by 2 million square feet of new building ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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