Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.28
Liaison Cynthia Philippe
Submission Date May 12, 2021

STARS v2.2

Université du Québec à Montréal
OP-16: Commute Modal Split

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.42 / 5.00 Cynthia Philippe
Sustainability advisor
Service du développement organisationnel
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Total full-time equivalent student enrollment:
37,095

Full-time equivalent of employees:
3,065

Part 1. Student commute modal split

Has the institution gathered data about student commuting behavior?:
Yes

Total percentage of students that use more sustainable commuting options as their primary mode of transportation:
89.40

A brief description of the method(s) used to gather data about student commuting:
Every five years, the Regional Metropolitan Transport Authority carries out an origin-destination (OD) survey. The last date was in the fall of 2018. We made a request to this authority to obtain information on the data pointing to the UQAM (downtown campus where most of the members of the university community go) as a location. of destination. Here are the results :


CAR PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OTHER TOTAL
Work : 24.2% 62.4% 12.7% 0.7% 100%

Studies : 8.8% 84.4% 5.0% 1.8% 100%

The OD survey targets all trips made during of a weekday in the Montreal metropolitan area
and its surroundings. The participants, selected at random, were asked about the characteristics of their household and the people that compose them, as well as on the characteristics of all trips made by each member of the household, during the day
before the interview.

Interviews completed with approximately 74,000 households resulted in allowed to describe the characteristics of 360,000 trips achieved by the 170,000 people who make up these households. The 2018 Origin-Destination survey (octobre 2018) is a realization of the Authority regional metropolitan transport in partnership with the ministry of Transports du Québec, Exo, the Longueuil transport network, the Société de transport de Montréal, the Société de transport de Laval and the Montreal Metropolitan Community (https://www.artm.quebec/planification/enqueteod/).

UQAM was a partner in circulating by e-mail the survey to the university community to encourage participation.

Part 2. Employee commute modal split

Has the institution gathered data about employee commuting behavior?:
Yes

Total percentage of employees that use more sustainable commuting options as their primary mode of transportation:
75.10

A brief description of the method(s) used to gather data about employee commuting:
Every five years, the Regional Metropolitan Transport Authority carries out an origin-destination (OD) survey. The last date was in the fall of 2018. We made a request to this authority to obtain information on the data pointing to the UQAM (downtown campus where most of the members of the university community go) as a location. of destination. Here are the results :


CAR PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OTHER TOTAL
Work : 24.2% 62.4% 12.7% 0.7% 100%

Studies : 8.8% 84.4% 5.0% 1.8% 100%

The OD survey targets all trips made during of a weekday in the Montreal metropolitan area
and its surroundings. The participants, selected at random, were asked about the characteristics of their household and the people that compose them, as well as on the characteristics of all trips made by each member of the household, during the day
before the interview.

Interviews completed with approximately 74,000 households resulted in allowed to describe the characteristics of 360,000 trips achieved by the 170,000 people who make up these households. The 2018 Origin-Destination survey (octobre 2018) is a realization of the Authority regional metropolitan transport in partnership with the ministry of Transports du Québec, Exo, the Longueuil transport network, the Société de transport de Montréal, the Société de transport de Laval and the Montreal Metropolitan Community (https://www.artm.quebec/planification/enqueteod/).

UQAM was a partner in circulating by e-mail the survey to the university community to encourage participation.

Optional Fields 

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 8.80 24.20
Zero-emissions vehicle --- ---
Walk, cycle, or other non-motorized mode 5 12.70
Vanpool or carpool --- ---
Public transport or campus shuttle 84.40 62.40
Motorcycle, motorized scooter/bike, or moped --- ---
Distance education / telecommute --- ---

Website URL where information about student or employee commuting is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Website of OD survey of the ARTM : https://www.artm.quebec/planification/enqueteod/

Nota bene : For the datas about de students and the employees, to differentiate between car passengers and drivers, there was not enough observations for car passengers, the datas are not representative. This is why the automobile category includes carpooling and solo auto (we answer in the single occupancy, our datas for CAR that include car passengers, by extention carsharing).

The OD survey is approximately 74,000 households in the Montreal metropolitan area made it possible to describe 360,000 trips made by the 170,000 people making up these households.

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