Transit Troubles

Scope 3 Emissions

Project Keywords: Transportation, Commute, Sustainability, Emissions

Driving Questions

Why are students underutilizing low-emission transportation options when commuting to and from UCSD?
Can environmental impact influence a students choice of transportation modes?
What strategies and improvements can be implemented to incentivize UCSD students to adopt sustainable transportation methods and reduce reliance on single-occupancy vehicles?

Meet the Team

Daniel Donskoy

Elleway Wu

Jonathan Kim

Rania Notowidigdo

Roxana Nevarez

Project Deliverables

SYNposium Poster

Our SYNposium poster acted as our paper’s executive summary. We included only the most engaging and important information so that we could quickly summarize what we accomplished during our time in class.

Project Proposal Draft

This document is our preliminary draft outlining recommendations for improving low-emission transportation options at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). We also used this paper as a way to communicate our survey results and how we interpreted them. Ultimately, we intended this to be submitted to a department of UCSD administration as a proposal for encouraging increased adoption of sustainable transportation among students commuting to and from campus. While the recommendations presented in this draft are based on initial survey findings and observations, they are subject to further refinement and validation through additional data analysis and stakeholder input.

With that being said, further research and data collection are needed to fully support the proposed recommendations with evidence. We encourage collaboration between the SYN100 students with faculty, administration, or local transit agencies to gather more comprehensive data and insights into transportation habits and preferences among UCSD students.

Project Proposal Draft

Additional Project Materials

Transit Survey

Google Form survey that we designed to collect data on student transportation methods and preferences. Contact Dr. Gormally at bgormally@ucsd.edu for most recent raw data that has been collected from the survey.

Future Directions & Remaining Questions

Implementation Strategy: By consulting the recommendations we listed at the end of our project proposal, further steps can be taken to develop a detailed implementation plan for any of the recommended initiatives. This could include outlining specific steps and identifying responsible parties who you can collaborate with. A lot of work also needs to be done to actually determine the feasibility of each recommendation and identify the resources requirement. The future directions/recommendations we included in our project proposal were:
1. Increase Transportation Reliability and Frequency
2. Increase Transportation Accessibility
3. Improve and Develop on-campus infrastructure
4. Hosting educational campaigns and promoting incentives
5. Increase campus accessibility options for learning

Collaboration with UCSD Administration: During our project, we were not able to figure out who to present our work to. We believe that the data we collected can be further developed to inform UCSD's broader campus planning and sustainability strategies. Work can be done to identify who could make the most use out of our data and who to further collaborate with to achieve these solutions. Ideas we had were either RMP or transportation.

Scaling of Student Feedback/Data Collection: Our survey was really comprehensive and we were able to get an appropriate sample size akin to UCSD’s demographic. We think that this survey has a lot of potential to gather routine data and feedback from students.

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