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Invisible commuters: assessing a university’s eco-friendly transportation policies and commuting behaviours
Highlights Faculty and non-professional staff exhibit the Environmental Attitudes/Behaviours and Behaviours (A-B & B-B) Splits. Non-professional staff dramatically account for a larger per-capita portion of the commuting carbon footprint. University eco-friendly transportation policies should address non-professional staff's long commutes in less fuel-efficient cars.
Abstract To assess the efficacy of a private university’s environmentally friendly transportation policies, we administered a transportation and energy-use phone survey to a random sample of faculty, non-professional staff, and off-campus students. Statistical findings confirm that our sample population exhibits the Environmental Attitudes & Behaviours (A-B) and Behaviours & Behaviours (B-B) Splits observed in past studies. Those most likely to report environmentally friendly attitudes/behaviours are also the most likely to commute longer distances and in larger cars. Moreover, the least-compensated university sub-population, non-professional staff (i.e., office support, grounds keepers), is significantly more likely to contribute to a dramatically larger per-capita percentage of the university’s carbon footprint from commuting. University pro-environment transportation alternatives at the time of this study did not consider directly this commuter sub-group’s structural disadvantages. This incongruence in goals and execution reflects an institutional variant of the A-B Split explained by the New Institutionalism perspective.
Invisible commuters: assessing a university’s eco-friendly transportation policies and commuting behaviours
Highlights Faculty and non-professional staff exhibit the Environmental Attitudes/Behaviours and Behaviours (A-B & B-B) Splits. Non-professional staff dramatically account for a larger per-capita portion of the commuting carbon footprint. University eco-friendly transportation policies should address non-professional staff's long commutes in less fuel-efficient cars.
Abstract To assess the efficacy of a private university’s environmentally friendly transportation policies, we administered a transportation and energy-use phone survey to a random sample of faculty, non-professional staff, and off-campus students. Statistical findings confirm that our sample population exhibits the Environmental Attitudes & Behaviours (A-B) and Behaviours & Behaviours (B-B) Splits observed in past studies. Those most likely to report environmentally friendly attitudes/behaviours are also the most likely to commute longer distances and in larger cars. Moreover, the least-compensated university sub-population, non-professional staff (i.e., office support, grounds keepers), is significantly more likely to contribute to a dramatically larger per-capita percentage of the university’s carbon footprint from commuting. University pro-environment transportation alternatives at the time of this study did not consider directly this commuter sub-group’s structural disadvantages. This incongruence in goals and execution reflects an institutional variant of the A-B Split explained by the New Institutionalism perspective.
Invisible commuters: assessing a university’s eco-friendly transportation policies and commuting behaviours
Duque, Ricardo B. (author) / Gray, David (author) / Harrison, Mariah (author) / Davey, Elizabeth (author)
Journal of Transport Geography ; 38 ; 122-136
2014-01-01
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Studying commuting behaviours using collaborative visual analytics
| Online Contents | 2014