Journal
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10080517
Keywords
smartphone GPS locations; student movement; commuting; university; campus
Funding
- University of Calgary
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Students with longer and slower commutes tend to spend more time on campus but visit less frequently. Student engagement on campus is not only related to commuting experience, but also urban environmental factors.
For many university students, commuting to and from campus constitutes a large proportion of their daily movement, and therefore it may influence their ability and willingness to spend time on campus or to participate in campus activities. To assess student engagement on campus, we collected smartphone GPS location histories from volunteers (n = 280) attending university in a major Canadian city. We investigated how campus visit length and frequency were related to characteristics of the commute using Bayesian regression models. Slower commutes and commutes over longer distances were associated with more time spent but less frequent visits to campus. Our results demonstrate that exposure to campus life, and therefore the potential for student engagement, may relate not just to whether a student lives on or near campus, but also to urban environmental factors that interact to influence the commuting experience.
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