Campus Travel Survey Content / Campus Travel Survey Content for şŮşŮĘÓƵ en Why Drive? /news/why-drive <p>The longer your commute to campus, the more likely you are to drive it alone. That’s what researchers have long found with the annual <a href="https://its.ucdavis.edu/campus-travel-surveys/">Campus Travel Survey</a>, and that’s what Transportation Services is hoping to find ways to counteract.</p> <p>“How can we reduce barriers to more sustainable commuting?” asked Eleni Jacobson, who is working on Transportation Services’ “Transportation Tomorrow” initiative to reduce the number of single-occupancy vehicle trips to campus by 10 percent by the year 2027.</p> January 23, 2018 - 10:22am Cody Kitaura /news/why-drive Fewer of Us Are Driving Alone to Campus /news/fewer-us-driving-alone-campus <p>As the number of people traveling to campus has grown in the past year, the number of people driving alone to campus has fallen.</p> <p>That’s good news for our overall carbon footprint, which shrank from 7.8 pounds of carbon-dioxide-equivalent per capita each weekday in the 2014-15 year to 7.2 pounds per capita in 2015-16.</p> October 25, 2016 - 9:00am Cody Kitaura /news/fewer-us-driving-alone-campus