The Transport Footprint of Oxford Brookes University

This paper describes the work undertaken by the Transport Group of the Environmental Forum to quantify the ecological impact of the transport demands generated by the activities of Oxford Brookes University. Ecological Footprint Analysis was used to quantify the ecological impact in terms of the land area required for these transport activities to be sustainable. Data from a survey of the commuting patterns of staff and a record of business flights undertaken by staff are analysed to yield an ecological footprint. This footprint is compared to the footprint of the energy supplied to the University and paper use. A lower bound on the transport footprint is found to be larger than any other activity considered.