Increase Public Transportation

Possible Academic Connections: Marketing, Urban Planning and Sustainability

Recommended project length: Semester

Experiential Learning? Likely

Community Engagement? Likely

Remote learning possible? Likely

Connection to OHIO Sustainability & Climate Action Plan: Transportation

Brief description: Develop marketing materials to promote the use of public transportation on campus.

Project Description

Develop a campaign to increase public transit, low-carbon vehicles, and human transportation to encourage a healthy lifestyle for students/ faculty and reduce gas emissions. Create marketing materials (marketing plan, signs, maps, etc) to encourage incoming students not to bring cars into Athens and promote use of biking, walking, skateboarding, carpooling, electric vehicles, GoBus, Athens Public Transit, and Ohio University public transit to reduce emissions.

Resources Available to Students/Faculty to Complete Project

• Meeting/communications with Tia Hysell and/or Sam Crowl
• Ohio University public transportation information.
• Athens Public Transit information

Project alignment to OHIO Sustainability & Climate Action Plan

• Transportation (goal #1 and #2)

Please send final project deliverables to sustainability@ohio.edu for tracking and reporting purposes.