Detailed description (English): Questionnaire to students and university staff to analye commuting mode decisions for students, and search for a link between individual environment, identity and commuting options.
Environmental issues increasingly concern society; however, consumption patterns do not seem to evolve accordingly. Decisions on consumption are taken based on education, habits, cost and a number of other variables, and they are not easily modified. We focus on this MobilityAction by analysing mode of commuting decisions for students, and searching for a link between individual environmental identity and transport choices.
We do so by carrying out a survey to University students and staff that pursues a twofold objective. In a first stage, by asking about their actual transport decisions and pulling the information into a Multi-Regional Input-Output model and adding the combustión emissions, we can calculate the anthropogenic environmental impact in terms of carbon footprint. In a second stage, our questionnaire allows us to analyse to what extend environmental identity determines real everyday commuting decisions. The questionnaire considers the environmental identity of the respondents, and by comparing them to the actual transport choices, and their receptivity to change, it is possible to appreciate whether actual actions are coherent with respondents’ environmental self-dimension. This also allows creating a range of potential scenarios, where infrastructure or normative changes could encourage environmentally friendly decisions’ making.
Detailed description (original language): Los problemas ambientales preocupan cada vez más a la sociedad; sin embargo, los patrones de consumo no parecen evolucionar en consecuencia. Las decisiones de consumo se toman en función de la educación, los hábitos, el costo y una serie de otras variables, y no se modifican fácilmente. Nos enfocamos en esta MobilityAction analizando decisiones de transporte para los estudiantes, y la búsqueda de un vínculo entre el medio ambiente individual opciones de identidad y transporte.
Lo hacemos mediante la realización de una encuesta a estudiantes y personal universitario que persigue un doble objetivo. En una primera etapa, preguntando sobre sus decisiones de transporte reales y tirando de la información en un modelo insumo-producto multirregional y sumando las emisiones de combustión, podemos calcular el impacto ambiental antropogénico en términos de huella de carbono. en un segunda etapa, nuestro cuestionario nos permite analizar en qué medida la identidad ambiental determina las verdaderas decisiones de viaje cotidiano. El cuestionario considera el medio ambiente identidad de los encuestados, y comparándolos con las opciones de transporte reales, y su receptividad al cambio, es posible apreciar si las acciones reales son coherentes con auto-dimensión ambiental de los encuestados. Esto también permite crear un rango de potencial escenarios en los que la infraestructura o los cambios normativos podrían fomentar toma de decisiones. También se puede medir el impacto ambiental de los escenarios propuestos, por lo que se pueden prever los beneficios potenciales.
Target group(s): The questionnaire was open for 9 days . It had 308 respondents, and after revision, 300 were considered valid. The interviewees are between 17 and 48 years. In this distribution, 94.5% of the subjects are between 17 and 24 years old, and 6.5% between 25 and 48. The sample is comprised of 49.7% men and 50.3% women. In turn, with regard to the marital status of the whole spectrum, 89.9% of the individuals are single, 8.1% have a common-law partner, 1.6% are married and 0.3% widowed.
Objectives: - Analyse transportation decisions for students, and search for a link between individual environment, identity and transportation options.
- Design of a mobility strategy for the different UCLM campuses.
Partner: Grupo PAFS, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Community of Castilla-La Mancha.
Spain