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This chapter outlines urban mobility as one of the most current challenges to sustainable metropolitan mobility. In this context, university students play a central role in the issue of mobility because commuters reach their campus to attend didactic-training activities. Therefore, constant 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: first, to map the current university students’ mobility; second, to quantify the impacts associated with their mobility in terms of greenhouse gas emissions; and third, 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 that attending the Campus of Economics in Bari and the elaboration of data through statistical tools allowed the building of a database to address the objectives of the paper and to develop 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 expand the scientific literature.
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T. Crovella contributed to software, data curation, validation, methodology, writing-original draft, and supervision. S. Burdi contributed to review editing. A. Pontrandolfo contributed to the methodology. A. Paiano contributed to conceptualization, writing original draft, and supervision.
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Crovella, T., Burdi, S., Pontrandolfo, A., Paiano, A. (2024). University Students and Mobility. A Sustainability Analysis. In: Lagioia, G., Paiano, A., Amicarelli, V., Gallucci, T., Ingrao, C. (eds) Innovation, Quality and Sustainability for a Resilient Circular Economy. AISME 2022. Circular Economy and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55206-9_26
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