| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 55.04 |
| Liaison | Prabhakar Shrestha |
| Submission Date | Jan. 13, 2023 |
New Jersey Institute of Technology
OP-16: Commute Modal Split
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.07 / 5.00 |
Sadia
Mohiuddin Sustainability Specialist Office of Sustainability |
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment:
Full-time equivalent of employees:
Has the institution gathered data about student commuting behavior?:
Total percentage of students that use more sustainable commuting options as their primary mode of transportation:
A brief description of the method(s) used to gather data about student commuting:
The Office of Sustainability sent out a commuting survey open to all students, faculty, and staff. The data from the survey were cleaned per the following in order to get the sample size of 401 samples:
- All on-campus residents that had walking as a part of their commute were considered.
- The records(off-campus) in which students claimed to be commuting for more than 16 times a week(i.e 20,25 and more) were removed as its not feasible.
- The records in which the respondent failed to mention the amount of average trips he/she makes per week were removed considering that lack of that mention will not give a certain value of how much emission is being made by him/her.
From the remaining data, the percentage of people that commuted via sustainable transportations (which included carpooling, walking, using zero-emissions vehicles, bikes, public buses, commuter rail, light rail) was determined.
Has the institution gathered data about employee commuting behavior?:
Total percentage of employees that use more sustainable commuting options as their primary mode of transportation:
A brief description of the method(s) used to gather data about employee commuting:
The Office of Sustainability sent out a commuting survey open to all students, faculty, and staff. The data for faculty & staff were cleaned separately. After going through all the sanity checks, the data for faculty was found to have no error. Out of total faculty, 32% used sustainable modes of transportation. For the staff, after removing errors, from a sample size of 259 samples, data showed 19% of the staff used sustainable modes of transportation.
Percentage of students and employees that use the following as their primary mode of transportation:
| Percentage of students (0-100) | Percentage of employees (0-100) | |
| Single-occupancy vehicle | --- | --- |
| Zero-emissions vehicle | --- | --- |
| Walk, cycle, or other non-motorized mode | --- | --- |
| Vanpool or carpool | --- | --- |
| Public transport or campus shuttle | --- | --- |
| Motorcycle, motorized scooter/bike, or moped | --- | --- |
| Distance education / telecommute | --- | --- |
Website URL where information about student or employee commuting is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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