Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Students in an Urban and Regional Science capstone course are conducting a survey of Aggie travel habits for a local planning organization.
"Our goal is to provide much needed data on student travel for the Metro Planning Organization,” Carla Prater, senior lecturer of urban planning, told The Battalion's Samantha Johnson in its March 24 issue.
The MPO, which includes representatives from the cities of Bryan and College Station, Texas A&M University, Brazos County, Brazos Transit and the Texas Department of Transportation, has the responsibility of developing the area's transportation plans and coordinating the transportation planning process.
For more information, or to participate in the survey, request a form from TAMUTransitSurvey@gmail.com and return it to one of the drop boxes on campus.
"It’s really important that the students do this, because otherwise there is no way that the university will be able to find out which roads they need to expand and where students are coming from,” said senior urban and regional sciences major Allie Norman. “People complain about traffic and this is one of the ways they can reduce that.”
For Johnson's story about the survey in The Battalion, visit http://www.thebatt.com
For more information about the Bryan/College Station MPO, visit http://www.bcsmpo.org
- Posted: March 31, 2010 -
