Abstract:Purpose
This paper aims to clarify the differences between students’ travel behaviours in Australia and China and the association between students’ environmental attitudes and their travel behaviours in both countries.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper extensively reviewed most of existing literature work on commuting patterns of higher education students with referring to different studies around the world and then used it to build a theoretical framework and conceptual model to relate the travel patter… Show more
“…These institutions were selected in order to achieve an even distribution of campuses across the urban districts. However, this choice has a shortcoming: excluding students in certain disciplines, such as health and law for example, may introduce a bias in the sample (see Soltani et al 2019 ). Fig.…”
Section: Data and Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Riding buses allows students to travel on a budget while engaging in some physical exercise, in the form of walking or cycling, at the start and/or or end of their trips. Among planners, the hope, if not the expectation, is that students’ reliance on public transport will keep campus environments clean and green, it will reduce parking demand and congestion around campuses, and, finally, it will help young people form life-long sustainable travel habits (Albareda-Tiana et al 2018 ; Soltani et al 2019 ).…”
University students are regarded as a readily available market segment for public transport. In Hanoi, as elsewhere, they constitute a large portion of bus passengers. However, one portion has been quitting buses, and the reasons were so far unknown. Nor was it clear whether they planned on retuning. Through a survey of more than 800 students in seven higher education institutions, this study aimed to find the answers to these questions. The study revealed that bus ridership was determined by socio-demographic variables (year of studies, household income, employment status, motorcycle ownership), environmental variables (home-university distance), and psychological variables (convenience, bus staff behaviour, risk of sexual harassment, reliability and health, image and status). A negative disruptor such as the fear of Covid-19 infection had little effect on the decision to continue riding buses. Meanwhile, the prospect of riding ‘clean and green’ electric buses, which were introduced in a pilot program, was a positive disruptor that may lead a portion of students to return to public transport.
“…These institutions were selected in order to achieve an even distribution of campuses across the urban districts. However, this choice has a shortcoming: excluding students in certain disciplines, such as health and law for example, may introduce a bias in the sample (see Soltani et al 2019 ). Fig.…”
Section: Data and Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Riding buses allows students to travel on a budget while engaging in some physical exercise, in the form of walking or cycling, at the start and/or or end of their trips. Among planners, the hope, if not the expectation, is that students’ reliance on public transport will keep campus environments clean and green, it will reduce parking demand and congestion around campuses, and, finally, it will help young people form life-long sustainable travel habits (Albareda-Tiana et al 2018 ; Soltani et al 2019 ).…”
University students are regarded as a readily available market segment for public transport. In Hanoi, as elsewhere, they constitute a large portion of bus passengers. However, one portion has been quitting buses, and the reasons were so far unknown. Nor was it clear whether they planned on retuning. Through a survey of more than 800 students in seven higher education institutions, this study aimed to find the answers to these questions. The study revealed that bus ridership was determined by socio-demographic variables (year of studies, household income, employment status, motorcycle ownership), environmental variables (home-university distance), and psychological variables (convenience, bus staff behaviour, risk of sexual harassment, reliability and health, image and status). A negative disruptor such as the fear of Covid-19 infection had little effect on the decision to continue riding buses. Meanwhile, the prospect of riding ‘clean and green’ electric buses, which were introduced in a pilot program, was a positive disruptor that may lead a portion of students to return to public transport.
“…The daily commuting of students has flexible characteristics in terms of transport choices. Several scholars analysed the mobility attitude of students communities, identifying some factors that can influence them such as demographic factors, socio-economic factors, the built environment and environmental knowledge attitudes (Romanowska et al, 2019;Soltani et al, 2019).…”
This paper explores the consumption-based ecological footprint method and its application aiming at a quantitative assessment of the sustainability of a university campus. The goal is to inform the planning decision-making process and evaluate the socio-technical solutions implemented in local urban settings for reducing energy consumption, decreasing environmental impacts and improving the quality of life of the campus' inhabitants. The case study taken for the analysis is the Politecnico di Torino, a Higher Education Institution (HEI) located in Northern Italy counting around 33,000 enrolled students in 2016. Data were collected from departments and administrative units of the Politecnico di Torino to identify the pressure exerted by the campus activities on the ecosystem during a reference year (2016). The study identified six main categories of consumption that were associated with their ecological footprint, i.e. the amount of land needed to produce the required resources and to absorb the generated waste, including CO2 emissions. Total footprint resulted in 6,200 gha: about half of the total city area, meaning that the campus would need a 310 times larger area to be self-sufficient. Normalizing this result with the number of students yields 0.19 gha/student. Transports had the highest share, with 49.4% out of the total campus impact, whereas energy covered 40.1%. Food, waste, land use and water counted, respectively, for 5.7%, 3.7%, 0.7% and 0.5%. This study presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the environmental impact associated with an Italian HEI. This methodology and its implementation for the specific case of HEIs contribute to gain a better understanding of the overall impact of a university campus, as well as to create thresholds for comparative analysis, decision-making tools and policymaking to reduce the ecological footprint of the educational sector.
“…In accordance with these global trends, the individual transport systems-e.g., assisted bicycles, segways, and scooters-have been integrated into public policies in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (GMA), and they must operate in the city under the principles of accessibility, equity, and security [53,54]. University students' transport-related inequities have been studied in developed countries [43,45,[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. Some authors have tackled the conceptual frame [5,6,8,14,16,17], while others have improved the concepts through empirical studies worldwide [4,60,[64][65][66][67] and in Latin America [34,68].…”
The equitable accessibility to higher education favours social fairness in economic opportunities. This paper provides an empirical approach to the assessment of the (in)equity of accessibility from universities to sustainable transport modes: Light Rail Transit, Bus Rapid Transit, buses, and bicycle infrastructure in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Mexico). In particular, the study designed and calculated an Access to Sustainable Transport from University Index by combining governmental and crowdsourced Open Access Data. It used spatial analysis techniques within a Geographic Information Systems environment, and multivariate statistical methods such as Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The findings highlight the weakness in the accessibility to sustainable transport modes from the universities in the Metropolitan Area. Furthermore, this study revealed an unfavourable bias in the location of sustainable transport stations/stops in the vicinity of public universities. The results provide a methodology and empirical evidence for transport policy makers to reduce inequalities and therefore transport-related social exclusion in this under-represented, but socially relevant, student community.
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