Transportation

Challenge
Aarhus University wants to reduce its carbon emissions in 2025 by 35% over a 2018 baseline.

Solution
A broadly representative working group drafted a proposal for a revised, greener travel policy for the university’s employees. The new policy came into force on 3 October 2022, and explicitly encourages staff to think about their own travel habits and reconsider the forms of travel they use by, among other things:

• choosing the most climate-friendly form of travel whenever possible.
• challenging the number of in-person meetings held in well-established existing networks.
• considering whether the trip can be replaced by on-line meetings, or be planned closer to home.
• travelling by train rather than by plane, if the train trip is less that five hours each way.

When planning a trip, staff should also naturally balance travel time and logistics in relation to the demands of their work schedule and private life.

Find out more
Read the travel policy on the AU website

Challenge
Aarhus University wants to reduce its carbon emissions in 2025 by 35 per cent compared with the 2018 baseline.

Solution
It has been decided that only vehicles using a climate-friendly fuel (i.e. electric and hybrid cars) are to be purchased in connection with procurement of AU vehicles, and AU’s diesel and petrol vehicles will be phased out.

Electricity and hybrid vehicles are better for the climate than petrol and diesel vehicles, as explained below: If a car drives approx. 200,000 km during its lifetime, an electric car will emit approx. 68% less CO₂ than an average Danish petrol-powered car.

Furthermore, there are other advantages of having an electric car, for example less particle pollution and lower noise levels in the city.

More charging stations will be set up on campus as more electric vehicles are procured.

Further information
Read the news article: Climate-friendly cars roll onto campus (22.10.20)

Challenge
Aarhus University wants to reduce its carbon emissions in 2025 by 35 per cent compared with the 2018 baseline.

Solution
AU wants to make it as easy as possible to use shared cars to and from campus. As an employee, you can therefore use staff places for cars and carpooling.

Further information

• Read more about parking spaces for shared cars here.