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Transportation

Transportation. Michal Hyrc , Eric Tidquist , William Koury & Ryan Henderson. Objectives. To better understand the carbon footprint of Washington University by: Ground Transportation: Improving Past Estimates Air Travel: Novel Estimates Parking: What happens we go underground?.

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Transportation

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  1. Transportation Michal Hyrc, Eric Tidquist, William Koury & Ryan Henderson

  2. Objectives • To better understand the carbon footprint of Washington University by: • Ground Transportation: Improving Past Estimates • Air Travel: Novel Estimates • Parking: What happens we go underground?

  3. Approach & Methodology Flying • Extracted student locations and numbers from home zip code data • Found total passenger miles flown by students • Estimated carbon footprint from total number of passenger miles Parking • Adsf • Adsf • Adfs Commuting • Based analysis on data on student and faculty/staff school zip codes from a similar project conducted in 2009 • Calculated distances commuted (either by walking/biking, using MetroLink, using MetroBus, driving alone, or carpooling), taking into account highway versus city driving differences • Found total miles traveled by each mode of transportation • Converted passenger miles to a Carbon Footprint • Found Upper Bound, Lower Bound, and Best Guess for total carbon emissions from commuting at Washington University

  4. Driving Forces for CO2 Emissions

  5. Student Aviation Carbon Footprint

  6. Results

  7. Results

  8. Results Parking Analysis

  9. Summary & Conclusions • Our best estimates for annual transportation footprints are • ~23,000 metric tons of CO2 from student air commute • ~5,500 metric tons of CO2 from faculty and student regional ground commute • Parking? • This is an underestimation of the actual total footprint • The transportation footprint has been and will continue to increase • To reduce the transportation footprint, we recommend the University • Merging fall and thanksgiving break to reduce flight emissions • Trying to reduce the number of people that drive to work by themselves • ?

  10. References • Add from delicious/wiki

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