University students mobility. A sustainability analysis

This paper outlines the urban mobility as one of the most current challenges towards sustainable metropolitan mobility. In the context, university students play a central role in the issue of mobility because as commuters reach their campus in order to attend the didactic-training activities. Therefore, constantly pressures are generated on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, particulate matter, consumption of natural resources and fossil fuels. The methodological path addresses three objectives: firstly, to map the current university students’ mobility; secondly, to quantify the impacts associated with their mobility in terms of greenhouse gases emissions; thirdly, to provide more sustainable alternatives to be implemented for the student community by stakeholders. The administration of a questionnaire survey to a sample of students from the Campus of Economics in Bari and the elaboration of data through statistical tools allowed the building of a database in order to address the objectives of the paper and to build the basis of identification of some more sustainable alternatives for the students' mobility. The outcomes of this analysis aim to stimulate efforts towards priority areas of sustainable transformation and to enlarge the scientific literature.