Transportation survey

Kim Monaghan, a masters of envrionmental studies student, cycles to campus even in the winter. (Danny Abriel Photo)

Researchers with Dalhousie’s Office of Sustainability want to know how you get to campus each day.

Online surveys are underway now to determine transportation patterns among students, faculty and staff.

Questions probe the length of your commute, whether your travel habits change with the seasons, and initiatives which would prompt you to switch to a more sustainable mode of transport.

Rochelle Owen, director of the Office of Sustainability, says the survey results will be used to design new programs.

The research is made possible with a $15,000 grant under Transport Canada’s Moving on Sustainable Transportation Program. Four graduate students are doing the research as part of a class project with Management Without Borders.

Have you participated in the survey? If you’re a student, click here. If you’re a staff or faculty member, click here.

Halifax Regional Municipality is doing a transportation survey too, part of a process aimed at developing a new five-year strategic operations plan for transit services in the region. If you’d like to fill out that survey, here’s the link.