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Once AUC moves to New Cairo, half of the students expect to ride the shuttle bus while more than 35 percent plan to drive their own car and park on campus. This is what the latest transportation survey reveals that was recently administered by the Office of Institutional Planning, Assessment, Research and Testing (IPART) and designed to verify students’ initial transportation concerns and needs.
Today, almost 30 percent of the students surveyed use their car to commute to the downtown campus and park nearby. About 16 percent use a combination of different transportation means whereas more than 14 percent ride the metro. Some 13 percent ride a driven car parked far from campus and over 12 percent take a taxi.
The data also show that a majority of the respondents, mostly local residents who live at home, will continue to reside either in Heliopolis, Maadi, Mohandessin or Nasr City, after the move to the new campus.
Over 80 percent of the students expect to arrive on campus between 8:00 am and 12.30 pm and about half plan to leave the university between 2:00 pm and 10:30 pm.
This latest online survey, the third of its kind, was e-mailed to all AUC students early in March. Out of 5,922 students, 874 mostly undergraduates responded to the survey - the equivalent of 15 percent of the entire AUC student body. The first student transportation survey was administered in Spring 2005, in which 350 students participated. The second one, conducted in November 2007, was answered by 1375 respondents.
“We have tried to encourage students to participate in these surveys as much as possible so that the new campus shuttle service reflects the flexibility and convenience that students look for in their commute to the new campus,” said Paul Donoghue, vice president for planning and administration.
IPART will also soon be administering another faculty and staff transportation survey. Its results as well will help to shape the preliminary shuttle bus schedule.
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