Why Drive?

Cody Kitaura — January 23, 2018 - 10:22am

The longer your commute to campus, the more likely you are to drive it alone. That’s what researchers have long found with the annual Campus Travel Survey, and that’s what Transportation Services is hoping to find ways to counteract.

“How can we reduce barriers to more sustainable commuting?” asked Eleni Jacobson, who is working on Transportation Services’ “Transportation Tomorrow” initiative to reduce the number of single-occupancy vehicle trips to campus by 10 percent by the year 2027.

Fewer of Us Are Driving Alone to Campus

Cody Kitaura — October 25, 2016 - 9:00am

As the number of people traveling to campus has grown in the past year, the number of people driving alone to campus has fallen.

That’s good news for our overall carbon footprint, which shrank from 7.8 pounds of carbon-dioxide-equivalent per capita each weekday in the 2014-15 year to 7.2 pounds per capita in 2015-16.

Campus Travel Survey Content

Why Drive?

Fewer of Us Are Driving Alone to Campus