Campus Travel Data Report

Group 2

Richard Goodrich and Patrick Nobby

EDT 180D

Gary Lewallen
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Introduction:

The topic this research is covering is relatively simplistic in nature. How do ASU get to and

around campus? The information collected indicates little on its own, but taken in the right frame

of mind, it shows how ASU can better the accessibility of the campus to students who have to

travel to and through it. By “better” we mean creating more walk only zones, more motorized

methods of travel, or better short term or long term parking, to just name a few examples. The

questions specifically asked on included:

● What year are you?

● What campus are you on?

● How do you get to campus?

● How do you get around campus?

● Do you work?

● How do you get to work?

All of these questions were presented in a multiple choice format on a Google Survey with

nearly one hundred and fifty people responding.

Discussion:

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This graph shows the number of respondents that were of each year.

This graph shows the amount of respondents that attend each campus.

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This graph shows how each respondent gets to campus/ if they live on campus.

This graph shows how each respondent travels around campus.

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This chart shows whether each respondent works or not, and if so, where.

This chart shows how each respondent gets to work, regardless of where that work is.

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The chart is describing how the members of each year go to campus, with an added option for

already living on campus, which means they have to need to travel to it for class. The survey had

a majority of freshmen responding to it, but there are enough of the other years to draw

conclusions on what these results can mean. The majority of freshmen (65.26%) live on campus,

while the rest of that year was split among the other options, with the most using a personal car

(23.16 %) and the least not going to campus at all (0%). While a large amount of sophomores

live on campus, an even larger percentage travel to campus using a personal car, while a not

insignificant amount walk to campus. The largest amount of juniors travel to campus using a car,

and seniors are the same. For graduate students, again, a car is mostly used.

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This graph showcases the type of work (or non work) done by each student organized by year.

The largest portion of people is those who do not work while in school, but an interesting trend is

revealed when looking at the graph. As the year level increases, there is a increase in how many

people work vs do not work, until eventually in the junior class the ratio is equal, and in the

senior and graduate groups there are more who work than do not. Also, although the sample size

is small, it is interesting to note that not a single grad student or senior does not work while

attending school.

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This graph covers how students get around the various campuses. Tempe had the largest

representation, and so is the most varied in results. It has the least amount of people walking

(barr the online group), and the largest amount of bikes, skateboards and scooters (barr

Polytechnic). Both Tempe and West have a small percentage of students that use a car to move

around campus, and Downtown campus has student who only walk around the campus. West

campus a surprisingly small number of people traveling around bikes and scooters and the like.

Analysis:

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The survey was filled out, and had a majority of freshman responders. Other respondents made

up only 40% total of the responses, across all grades. Despite this, however, conclusions that can

create a net benefit for all can still be reached. The overwhelming majority of ASU students walk

around campus based on this data, which means in general that this is prefered method, although

it cannot be conclusively stated as the best method. Using a bike, skateboard or something

similar is also a fairly common method for students across the year levels. Generally, as this data

was collected in an attempt to assess what ASU can do better to facilitate travel, it means that

what the school is already doing is quite conducive to the majority of students. Walkways and

areas for bike travel seem to be the most important things to have, however, there was a

significant percentage of students who have to to travel off campus using a car to outside work.

Increased accessibility to temporary meter parking would likely be beneficial, rather than just the

parking structure, and the 3 dollars per hour pricing. For moving around campus, there were also

very few responders who indicated they used the DART or the bus. An increased emphasis, not

on providing these services, but advertising the fact that they exist would increase use and ease

of travel. For continued questions, adding a question about distance traveled to get to the

campus, and another for distance traveled to work would allow us to determine something

further, possibly along the lines of how to plan the amount and pricing of parking offered for the

future. If we had to do this again, we would likely change the questionnaire to better reflect what

options people mostly use. The bus and public transportation was rarely chosen as an option, so

removing this would increase the accuracy of the data and narrow the amount of conclusions we

can come to.