15 minutes for sustainable mobility at the University of Kassel

How do students get from home to the university? Do they walk, cycle, use public transport or drive? That's what the Department of Transportation Planning and Systems at the University of Kassel, headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer, wanted to know. After all, the university wants to make the mobility of students, employees and visitors more efficient, environmentally and socially compatible and thus more sustainable. The survey was conducted online and sent by e-mail to all 22,000 students. It now provides a current and first reliable data basis on their mobility behavior during the lecture period. In a second round, all students and employees of the university will be surveyed again in September during the lecture-free period. Once again, there are great prizes to be won: Five high-quality tablets, ten canteen vouchers and ten book vouchers. The survey results will be evaluated later in a comparison.

Karl Haase, Head of the Department of Construction, Technology and Real Estate, which is overseeing the mobility survey, is pleased with the lively participation of the students: "We hope to be able to further improve the infrastructure in the area of mobility on the basis of the results."

"It is still important to have the highest possible participation," emphasizes Sophie Elise Kahnt, research assistant at the Department of Transportation Planning and Systems, who organized, coordinated and implemented the mobility survey together with her colleague Stefan Saake. This is the only way to draw a holistic picture of the traffic situation at the university locations. Every answer counts, she said, because the more meaningful the results, the better the demands and wishes of all university members can be taken into account in further planning. "All participants," said Kahnt, "make an important contribution to the sustainable development of the university. It's about working together with students and employees to shape sustainable mobility at the University of Kassel." And there's something else that speaks in favor of active participation besides the nice prizes: it only takes about 15 minutes to fill out the questionnaire.

Contact:
Sophie Kahnt, M. Sc.
University of Kassel, Department of Transportation Planning and Systems
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tel.: 0561 804-2079
Mail: sophie.kahnt[at]uni-kassel[dot]de