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If you are a #GTHA area student and concerned about how to pick a transp option to come to #torontomet campus, consider these tips. @StudentMoveTO @TMUTransForm @TMUsurp
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🚍Do transport systems contribute to the difficulties disabled students face with accessing what should be barrier-free education?
Professors @RBuliung & @RaktimMitra lead a recent forum at @TMUsurp to discuss the research—and offer possible solutions: bit.ly/3muun2h.
ALT Close-up of a person in a wheelchair navigating a long hallway.
"Nearly one third of students viewed their commute as a barrier to their academic success."
Great article in TMU Today on the impact commuting has on academic success. These findings are from a study by Ryan Taylor & @RaktimMitra using StudentMoveTO data
torontomu.ca/content/ryerson…
And that’s a wrap for the StudentMoveTO Symposium 2022! Thank you to everyone who joined us, whether in person or following along here!
While students’ mode choices can be considered mostly environmentally sustainable, transit users may face social exclusion due to lack of activity participation
Our last presenter for today is Attiya Haseeb, who is exploring the environmental and social sustainability of travel behaviour patterns of young adults
“Student mobility is not restricted to
linear connection between home and
school but has complex web-building
and networking effects and is part of
creating the fabric of urban life.”
Questions to ask: to what degree are universities as places to go to? Can they play a different role in overall network of education and learning? How can universities relate to real life of students? What kind of urban citizens are students?
Our next presenter is Roger Keil (@rkeil). He is presenting on students in the city, transportation, and urban life.
High usage of public transit among international students for both school related and other daily trips. Transit should be more affordable - process of attaining student pass should be more convenient.
Our next presenter is Mengyan Huang, who is sharing their research on international students’ experience with public transit during the pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Vancouver Area
Students whose usual commute is driving alone or rideshare are more likely to telecommute than those who take transit, walk, or cycle
Sanjana finds that older students and women more likely to telecommute. University students, full-time students, and upper year students telecommute less frequently. Course load can have impact on decision to telecommute.
Sanjana Hossain returns to the podium again to present their research on the choices of telecommuting of students - particularly when it is not enforced
Suburban students were more likely to switch to driving. Walking and biking declined as a commute mode - but need more analysis to understand why and where.
However, for students who didn’t move and remained students between 2019 and 2022, transit use did not change
Students who completed the 2019 survey were recontacted to provide their 2022 travel behaviour, allowing a point of comparison. Some decline in local transit use, with increase in regional transit and driving.
Our next presenter is Raktim Mitra (@RaktimMitra), presenting their research on post-pandemic travel behaviour changes
Students overall mobility, including trips outside of school, dropped due to telecommuting and the pandemic.
