PERCEIVED ACCESSIBILITY AND TRANSPORT DEMANDS AS DETERMINANTS OF THE URBAN AND REGIONAL TRANSPORT POLICY – PILOT RESEARCH OF TWO WROCŁAW UNIVERSITIES

Monika Paradowska

University of Wrocław

Abstract

Nowadays, colleges of higher education are more and more often attributed the role of a leader
of changes towards the achievement of the idea of sustainable development, including sustainable mobility.
Activities conducted by universities should be complementary to initiatives undertaken within urban and
regional sustainable transport policies. The research to date has focused mostly on case studies of different
universities, mainly in terms of conducted actions and their effectiveness. Only a few studies compare student mobility in the case of public universities. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether there are differences between students of one private and students of one public university in Wrocław regarding basic factors which determine transport choices, preferred means of transport, as well as satisfaction with communting and the meaning of different transport demands. The analysis of survey results was based on the Pearson chi-square test and V Cramer test, comparison of medians and frequencies of answers. The identified differences in the studied aspects of transport behaviour were used to formulate recommendations for the urban
and regional sustainable transport policies.

Keywords:

sustainable transport, student mobility, urban policy, regional policy, education for sustainable development