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Carpooling strategies have become important for sustainable transportation and environment. There have been numerous studies about carpooling for commuting to universities. In this paper, a new possible carpooling scheme was proposed for the trips between four campuses of Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and responses were collected. The four campuses are within walking distance to each other and have shuttle services between them. However, the shuttle services can become very crowded at certain times of the day. Hence, to solve this problem, vehicles belonging to the university administration are suggested to be carpool for the individuals in the university, as the administrative personnel make trips within and among the campuses. An internet-based survey was conducted with the individuals in the university. The individuals were grouped as academic personnel, administrative personnel and students. The responses indicated a positive response from all individual groups in the university, and especially from the students. It was also found that each individual group had different inter-campus trip characteristics than each other. The recommendation is that this service should be implemented at certain times of the day between two of the four campuses.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries. Alternate title: Carpooling Between Campuses: Case Study of Bogazici University.

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17-03532

English

16p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Administrative personnel; Campus transportation; Campuses; College students; Surveys

Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey)

Academic personnel; Inter-campus trips

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03532

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:20AM