Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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Overall Score | 61.04 |
Liaison | Tina Woolston |
Submission Date | March 1, 2019 |
Executive Letter | Download |
Tufts University
OP-17: Employee Commute Modal Split
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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0.89 / 2.00 |
Shoshana
Blank Education and Outreach Program Administrator Office of Sustainability |
Total percentage of the institution’s employees that use more sustainable commuting options as their primary method of transportation:
A brief description of the method(s) used to gather data about employee commuting, including the timeframe for when the analysis was conducted and how a representative sample was reached, if applicable:
The percentage of the institution's employees that use each of the following modes as their primary means of transportation to and from campus::
Percentage (0-100) | |
Commute with only the driver in the vehicle (excluding motorcycles and scooters) | 55.60 |
Walk, bicycle, or use other non-motorized means | 10.60 |
Vanpool or carpool | 2.50 |
Take a campus shuttle or public transportation | 27.10 |
Use a motorcycle, scooter or moped | 0.20 |
Telecommute for 50 percent or more of their regular work hours | 4 |
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
In the survey, employees were asked how they commuted from home to Tufts during a typical 5-day week (Monday - Friday) from April 23 - April 27, 2018. Employees who traveled by multiple modes of transportation (e.g., walk to the subway station) were asked to choose the mode with the most miles traveled.
To obtain the numbers above, the totals for all 5 days of the week for each mode of transportation were averaged (e.g., 253 employees walked or cycled to campus on Monday, 272 on Tuesday, 250 on Wednesday, 245 on Thursday, and 228 on Friday - these numbers were added together to give a total number of employees walking/cycling in the week). The total number of respondents to each of the five days were added up (1,248) representing the numerator, and we used the total number of responses over the five days as the denominator (11,791), to get an average mode share over the course of the five days. This excludes anyone who listed they did not come to campus on a given day.
Employees completing the survey could select one of the following commuting modes: Drove my own car, Drove my own motorcycle or moped, Carpool, Walked or cycled, MBTA Bus, Subway (the T), Tufts Davis Square Shuttle, Commuter Rail/Regional Train, worked remotely, and "I was not working/On vacation".
Note in particular that the percentage for telecommuting provided above was calculated in the same manner and reflects the average number of people who telecommuted to the university during that week. It does not include people who telecommuted for part of a day.
The weather during the week was as follows (from wunderground.com):
Monday: mean temp 51 degrees F, precipitation 0.00"
Tuesday: mean temp 56 degrees F, precipitation 0.00"
Wednesday: mean temp 52 degrees F, precipitation 0.72"
Thursday: mean temp 59 degrees F, precipitation 0.21"
Friday: mean temp 52 degrees F, precipitation 0.54"
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