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11/26/2022

Mobility survey: Important contribution made

In the coming years, the transport offer at the university locations is to be improved. Following the student mobility survey last summer semester, employees were also surveyed in September, with students able to participate a second time. As part of the public energy action days, attractive prizes were awarded on November 22 to participants in the survey who had previously been drawn by lot.

How do employees and students get from home to the university? Do they walk, take the bicycle, public transportation or the car? That's what the Department of Transportation Planning and Systems at the University of Kassel, headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Sommer, wanted to know. The university wants to make the mobility of students, employees and visitors more efficient, environmentally and socially compatible and thus more sustainable. The survey was conducted online and sent by e-mail to all 3,300 employees and 22,000 students. The evaluation provides an up-to-date and reliable data basis on their mobility behavior during the lecture-free period.

Once again, there were great prizes to be won: Five tablets, ten canteen vouchers, ten book vouchers and ten thermal spa vouchers. 67 percent of employees took part. Karl Haase, Head of the Department of Construction, Technology and Real Estate, and Sophie Elise Kahnt, Research Associate at the Department of Transportation Planning and Systems, were delighted with this high rate. Together with her colleague Stefan Saake, she organized, coordinated and implemented the mobility survey.

"Based on the results, we will improve the mobility infrastructure. The first measures will be implemented as early as 2023, when we will install more bicycle parking facilities on campus," Karl Haase affirms.

"The survey enables us to take into account the demands and wishes of university members in further planning. All participants have made an important contribution to the sustainable development of the university, adds Sophie Elise Kahnt and thanks all participants in the survey for their commitment.