We encourage clean and healthy mobility and strive to make logistics more sustainable to make our campus a safer, greener and more pleasant place to spend time.
Radboud University is committed to creating a high-quality sustainable, accessible campus. We encourage clean and healthy mobility and strive to make logistics more sustainable in order to make our campus a safer, greener and more pleasant place to spend time.
What can you do to help?
- Use the electric pool car free of charge for business trips to locations that are difficult to reach by public transport.
- Do you drive to work, and is your commute less than 15 kilometres? Then why not give an e-bike a go! You can try it out for free.
- In the autumn, you can also take part in the Mobility Survey and tell us how you currently travel and how you would like to travel in the future. Once the survey has been launched online, we will provide a link on this page.
- Park your car at a hub (train or bus station) and transfer to public transport. The Combi Reisplanner (combined travel planner) allows you to find a route that combines using your own car with public transport.
Do you have an idea to make the campus more sustainable? Submit your idea via Realize Your Idea!
This is how students and employees travel to campus
Students
The vast majority of students travel by public transport, both in terms of journeys and kilometres travelled. As there are more students than staff, the number of student cars on campus (in absolute terms) is about the same as the number of staff cars.
Employees
Many employees already cycle to work. However, a small group (18%) who travel to campus by car account for the majority of kilometres travelled (54%).
What are we working on?
Our ambition is to create an accessible and liveable campus. To achieve this, we are using the STOMP principle to guide us. The STOMP principle (‘stappen, trappen, openbaar vervoer, mobiliteitdiensten, privé auto’. In English: walking, cycling, public transport, mobility services, private car) gives priority to more sustainable forms of mobility (walking, cycling, and public transport) and less priority to less sustainable forms of mobility (such as the car).
From 2025, our campus will be an emission-free zone. This means that all entrepreneurs and suppliers will only be allowed to enter the campus with emission-free vehicles. You can read more about emission-free zones on doehetzero.nl.
We expand bike parking on campus and make all bike parking more accessible.
We will no longer fly to destinations within seven hours of Nijmegen, and we will start using a travel agency that books international travel as sustainably as possible. Read more about our sustainable international travel policy.
Consult authorities and transport operators as part of Sustainable and Accessible Heijendaal to improve cycle routes to the campus, improve public transport and increase the range of mobility services.
Our objectives
- The University can be easily reached using sustainable modes of transport.
- The campus is safe and designed to be a pleasant, welcoming place to be.
- The University encourages and facilitates sustainable mobility choices.
- Logistics are clean and efficient.
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are seventeen goals aimed at making the world a better place by 2030. They serve as a global compass for addressing challenges such as poverty, education and the climate crisis.
Radboud University’s mobility plans are in line with the following SDGs:
- 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- 11: Sustainable cities and communities
- 17: Partnerships for the goals