Surveys

What do you know about the travel patterns of your peers? Begin a project with a school-wide survey. When you hear from the students about the barriers and incentives for using sustainable travel (walking, cycling, transit) you can make your efforts count by highlighting those incentives and tackling a few strategic barriers ... or you could waste your time trying to promote cycling to a crowd of people who don’t have bikes. Here is a sample survey  Adobe (PDF - 191 KB) to give you some ideas.

The Town of Markham, Pollution Probe, and students from the University of Toronto Applied Environmental Research worked with Unionville High School to design and analyze a survey to assess students’ demographics, modes of transportation, and attitudes towards transportation in their community. The findings from that survey are presented in the following report:

Unionville High School Transportation Survey  Adobe (PDF - 361 KB)

A Researcher at Trent University conducted a transportation survey at Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School – here are the findings:

The Car versus Sustainable Transportation  Adobe (PDF - 200 KB)