Sustainability [for students & staff]

Background

The below dashboard provides a summary of the results from the 2024 Travel Survey for staff and students. The survey was live from 4th November 2024 to 22nd November 2024 for all University staff and students.

The main aims of the survey were to:

• Report progress against the targets in the Strategic Transport and Travel Plan
• Determine future measures to influence the way staff and students travel, including helping to achieve the University's commitment to being carbon net zero by 2030
• Calculate transport and travel carbon emissions associated with staff and student commuting to the University

Using the dashboards

Filters

• Use the drop down-filters to view the data by role, campus location or college/school/service.

Interacting with charts

• Hover over data bars/points/squares to see further detail about that piece of data.
• If you click on parts of the charts, linked charts will update accordingly.

Data analysis and methodology

It should be noted that not all respondents answered every question and as such response rates vary across questions.

The survey form was completed online by respondents. There is a risk that some responses are inaccurate. Data cleaning was undertaken for 'other' responses and some responses were re-categorised (if respondents had misunderstood or missed a question option) into existing question options, if appropriate.

Carbon emissions calculation

Respondents' home postcode, main campus, main mode of travel and average number of days commuting to the University per week was used to calculate carbon emissions relating to commuting. A bespoke routing tool^* was used to determine total journey distance (return journey), considering the road network, rail network and subway line. Distances of 320km (200 miles) or greater were excluded from carbon emissions analysis (consistent with previous years' analysis) and some which were impossibly small were also excluded.

Relevant carbon emissions factors from the Department of Transport for 2024 were applied and an assumption of staff travelling the University for 45 weeks per year and students for 32 weeks was used. As only a sample of staff and students commuting information was captured, growth factors to reflect carbon emissions across the whole University were applied based on student and staff headcounts for 2024.

*This methodology is not consistent with the 2022 travel survey which applied a factor to the straight-line distance between respondents' home postcode and main campus.