11.4.2: Promote Sustainable Commuting

KAU is continuously working on enhancing the university environment within its shift towards a Green University. And as part of its social responsibility, KAU has been taking several actions to promote sustainable commuting through awareness campaigns and collaborations with the local authorities and NGOs.

Hence, KAU has established several units/teams, which coordinate with the student affairs, to execute the measures and actions that would promote commuting sustainability, to everyone, and reduce factors that would negatively affect commuting sustainability, like:

• Provision of free shuttle buses and shared transport schemes.

• Provision of bicycle parking & storage facilities, provision of cycle tracks.

• Encouraging car pool and ride sharing programmes.

• Introducing new environment friendly means of transportation like the Electric Scooters and the Golf Cars. 

University Transportation Services

Shuttle Bus

The student transportation comes as a confirmation of the interest and care that the university attaches to its students, to transfer them among classrooms, colleges, housing complexes and training centers and transport students of extra-curricular activities inside and outside the city of Jeddah.

Students' Transportation Goals

1. Eliminating the sense of social disparity among students.

2. Developing a sense of good values ​​and collective spirit.

3. Achieving an appropriate degree of comfort and reassurance for the student and the guardian.

4. Familiarizing students with self-reliance, discipline in attendance and departure times.

5. Reducing congestion, frequent traffic accidents, and energy consumption.

6. Provisioning of lost working hours by students due to the lack of a suitable position.

7. Providing financial support, as the student transportation is free for all university students. 

The Department of Student Transportation provides transportation services to the residents and other KAU students in the following manner:

• Medical Students

1. Provide buses to carry students from the main campus residences to the various campus medical colleges, the Research Center, Conventional Hall, and various hospitals for training, workshops, and medical conferences, etc. The buses will return students back to their resident halls according to a timetable predetermined in the official letters to which bus request forms from the bus requesting authority are attached.

• Students of Other Colleges

1. Provide buses to frequently carry students from the University Residences to the Females’ Campus in the main campus, training locations, schools, and field visits.

2. Provide one bus for frequent transportation between the Females’ Campus and the Medical Center in the Main Campus on a daily basis (Sunday through Thursday) during the duty hours.

On the 12th of September 2021, KAU's President, Prof. Abdul Rahman bin Obaid Al Youbi, inaugurated the internal transportation service between deanships, colleges and classrooms by electric bicycles for students and affiliates, at the King Faisal Convention Center.

He listened to a detailed explanation of the service from the Undersecretary of Housing and Nutrition at the Deanship, Dr. Alaa bin Rashad Sindi, where electronic corridors and special parking for the scooters have been established in all buildings.

The Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Masoud bin Muhammad Al-Qahtani, explained that the project, which is one of the modern and clean means of transportation, aims to serve students and employees and facilitate the process of their transportation between deanships, colleges, classrooms and every building on campus.

The Dean of Student Affairs stated that the Deanship seeks to develop new clean services for students that meet their needs and are compatible with the development of technology, and provide innovative means.