Transport Strategy

This means an increasing demand for transport and we need to plan to meet this in a sustainable way.

This is the purpose of our Transport Strategy which aims to:

• reduce the numbers of car journeys on the network
• promote appropriate sustainable transport alternatives
• improve users' journey experience
• improve local air quality
• reduce the University's carbon footprint.

We will be reviewing and updating the strategy during 2019 for consultation during 2020.

Sustainable Travel team

The Sustainable Travel team manages and supports a wide range of schemes and activities for achieving the aims of the Transport Strategy, including:

• making sure that staff with a genuine need for parking have priority in using the University’s limited parking availability
• season ticket loans and discounts for public transport
• loans to buy your own bicycle, free bike maintenance and adult cycle training
• providing more cycle parking, showers and changing facilities
• helping departments to make more pool bikes available to their staff, including electric bikes
• the Science Transit Shuttle bus service between the centre of Oxford, Old Road Campus and the Headington hospitals, Begbroke Science Park, Harwell Campus and the Wytham Field Station
• using more Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (ULEV) in the University’s fleet 
• making purchasing and freight servicing more efficient – this means that our suppliers use fewer and zero-emission vehicles to deliver goods to the University
• understanding air quality at a local level and the impact on people travelling around the city

We also work with a wide range of partner organisations to benefit our staff and students by:

• influencing transport policy in Oxford
• lobbying for transport improvements
• funding transport schemes
• supporting sustainable travel initiatives