Universities play an essential role in spreading climate change awareness. However, slight information on climate change and environmental issues had been integrated into the curricula. Moreover, minimal research had been carried out to understand university role in spreading awareness, and students level of awareness and daily behaviour towards climate change, especially in developing countries. This paper aims to investigate the aforementioned issues. An experimental study was carried out on 448 undergraduate students enrolled at An-Najah National University Palestine. The study aimed to examine students’ knowledge and daily behaviour towards climate change, and the important role the university and students’ societies play in terms of spreading and enhancing awareness. The results revealed that female and male students had a non satisfactory interest level in environmental topics and activities, and gender equality did not seem to be an issue. Moreover, female students tend to have a significantly lower level of awareness on climate change compared to male students. On the other hand, being an engineering students or a member in students’ societies had a positive impact on students’ level of awareness and especially females. The results revealed that female students who are enrolled in the engineering faculty or members of students’ societies had a significantly higher level of awareness compared to female students who are enrolled in other faculties or not members of students’ societies. In general, students had a low level of awareness regardless of gender or faculty and universities should offer undergraduate students and especially female students’ opportunities to learn more about climate change by integrating climate change topics into higher education. Moreover, universities should support extracurricular activities held by student societies, and some of these activities should be directed towards environmental and climate change issues. This study entails the activities of the Mediterranean Gender Equality Community of Practice co-created by the Mediterranean Network of Engineering Schools (RMEI), where An-Najah University is an active member, with the support of the EU TARGET project entitled ’Taking a reflexive approach to gender equality at Institutional transformation’.
With the emergence of intelligent transportation system technologies there has been a renewed interest in the bus priority signal (BPS). The effect of providing the BPS treatment on the Washtenaw Avenue Corridor in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was studied. The NETSIM graphic animation feature was used to detect the bus arrival and award preemption. The signal timing plan was then restored to the original signal setting in subsequent cycles. The model was calibrated using field data, and the sensitivity of the model to several variables was tested. The corridor's signal timing was first optimized using the TRANSYT-7F model. The green extension and red truncation with and without compensation, the skip phase with and without compensation, and the conditional preemption plans were evaluated. It was found that in all cases signal preemption disrupts traffic progression and, thus, increases overall vehicle delay. The results of preemption were analyzed at each intersection as well as over the entire simulation network. The most appropriate preemption strategy for each intersection was determined and used in the simulation. Bus travel time and delay were reduced when this optimal BPS plan was used.
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