Abstract
Universities have the extraordinary ability to generate awareness regarding all aspects of sustainability in communities. To be successful, they must first adopt and model sustainable concepts within their own campuses. Transportation is one of the most affective sectors on the level of sustainability on university campuses. In recent decades, numerous universities around the world have begun encouraging usage of active modes of transportation through various strategies. This research has a multi-faceted approach to researching proven strategies, sampling local conditions, and making context-driven recommendations. The literature review outlines the most effective strategies related to Transportation Demand Management (TDM) for promoting usage of active modes of transportation inside university campuses. After that, the condition of existing facilities and strategies as well as commuters’ propensities related to active modes of transportation in the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) campus are evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The results include a set of recommendations and a framework for administrating, implementing, and enhancing a sustainable transportation system thereby increasing the commuter’s use of sustainable active modes of transportation to, from, and within the university campus.
Highlights
Amid the range of its modes, transportation is capable of providing the basic requirements of safety, well-being, comfort, health, economic growth, and social development to communities in varying degrees
Encouraging sustainable commuting in university has become an important movement around the world
There have been several studies focused on transportation modes used by commuters to, from, and within universities in addition to studies on the affective factors on commuters’ propensity to use active modes of transportation
Summary
Amid the range of its modes, transportation is capable of providing the basic requirements of safety, well-being, comfort, health, economic growth, and social development to communities in varying degrees. Due to the ramifications of poor transportation systems, it is widely accepted that urgent changes in travel modes, policies, and behaviors are crucial for mitigating transportation’s externalities and reducing negative transport-related impacts [3,6,7]. Universities are unique communities with rapidly-expanding populations in need of transportation options; simultaneously they are capable of engendering an educational milieu for sustainability [9,10,11,12]. The majority of these commuters use private automobiles [13]. The dependency on private automobiles is directly related to the lack of appropriate infrastructures and strategies for shared other modes of transportation [14]
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