Be Counted! Transportation Surveys Need Your Responses
Two surveys instrumental to UC Davis' future in transportation launched very recently-- one comes every year and is easier than ever to complete and the other only comes once in a decade. Both need your input.
The Unitrans Short Range Transit Plan
Cross-posted from https://unitrans.ucdavis.edu/news/short-range-transit-plan-update-we-want-your-feedback
Every ten years, the City of Davis in coordination with Unitrans undergoes a Short Range Transit Plan (SRTP) which looks at Unitrans bus service and provides proposals and recommendations on service improvements. The SRTP process began in 2024 with extensive outreach to Unitrans passengers in Fall 2024 on their thoughts and opinions on current service and future service. Based on ridership trends, growth patterns, and your feedback, the planning process has route and service hour proposals avaialble for review and feedback. Once the SRTP is complete, Unitrans (UC Davis) and the City of Davis may use the findings and recommendations for future bus routes, service modifications, schedule changes, fleet purchases, fares, transfer locations, operating expenses, revenue projections, and other initiatives.
For the full summary of changes, visit the Transit Plan website. To review the proposals and give feedback, click on the survey link!
The 19th Annual UC Davis Campus Travel Survey
The UC Davis Campus Travel Survey is administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis. It collects a rich set of data about travel to the UC Davis campus, demographics, and attitudes toward different modes of travel covering commute habits, bicycle theft, and bike crashes/collisions.
If you've taken the survey in the past, you're probably aware that it could take up to 20 minutes to complete. Recently though, the ITS researchers have put the work in to streamline the survey so much that, most people will complete the survey in less than 10 minutes.
If you received an email inviting you to take the survey, please complete the survey. And if the pleading of a bunch of transportation nerds isn't enough, do consider that you can opt in for a chance to win one of 80 $50 CoHo gift cards at the end of the survey.