“…Recently, university students' modal choice patterns have been studied more intensively. Private car has been the preferred mode to commute to many universities around the world, such as Qatar University (Azzali and Sabour, 2018), Sydney University, Australia (Rissel et al, 2013), San Diego State University, USA (Appleyard et al, 2018); the University of Michigan-Flint, USA (Rybarczyk and Gallagher, 2014), the University of California, Los Angeles, USA (Zhou, 2016), the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA (Sisiopiku, 2018), the University of Foggia, Italy (Cappelletti et al, 2021), the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (Miralles-Guasch and Domene, 2010), the University of León, Spain (Pérez-Neira et al, 2020), and the University of A Coruña, Spain (Perez-Lopez et al, 2021), among many others. For this reason, many universities around the world have been classified as major traffic generators (Shannon et al, 2006;Romanowska et al, 2019).…”