Campus Public Transportation
Students from NDSU may take classes through the Tri-College system, which consists of NDSU, Concordia, and MSUM. This section contains questions to determine whether there is sufficient demand for public transportation to be provided between the three colleges. The first question addresses whether or not students plan on taking Tri-College courses with 40 out of 598 indicating that they planned on taking classes. Of those 40, 36 responded that they would be taking Tri-College classes during the daytime. Nearly 58 percent of students indicating they would be taking Tri-College courses indicated they would consider taking the MAT bus. Only 12 percent of respondents indicated they would not consider taking the MAT bus, and 30 percent said they would maybe consider taking the MAT bus for their Tri-College classes (Figure 23).
Figure 23. Tri-College Students Who Would Consider Taking the MAT Bus (n=40)
The NDSU students were then asked if they were familiar with the campus circulator (Figure 24). Over half of respondents indicated that they were.
Figure 24. Students Familiar with Campus Circulator (n=598)
Respondents were then asked if they use the campus circulator, with under 9 percent of respondents indicating they use the campus circulator. Over 90 percent of the respondents indicated they did not feel there needed to be additional coverage of the campus circulator. Students were also asked how long they would be willing to wait for the next circulator bus if they were to miss one (Figure 25). Just over 26 percent of the respondents indicated they would wait 7 minutes, 18 percent would wait 10 minutes, while only 8 percent would wait 15 minutes, and 46 percent are not willing to wait.
Figure 25. Time Period Students are willing to Wait for Circulator (n=598)