Travel

UCL has over 40,000 students travelling to the campus every day. But 60% of them live within 5km of UCL, under 20 minutes’ cycle! UCL’s location means we are lucky to have good public transport links. However it also means our students are exposed to some of the highest levels of air pollution in the UK. One of the most effective ways of addressing this challenge is by encouraging more people out of their cars and onto trains, tubes, buses, bikes or even their own two feet.

Our Green Travel Plan is all about helping people make sustainable travel choices

To make walking and cycling the easy options
To reduce our environmental impact
To improve our health and wellbeing

We will achieve this by creating the right conditions, like having more cycle parking spaces, offering maintenance workshops and working with Transport for London and councils to improve local cycle paths. We will also promote the benefits of active travel to our staff and students, and the alternatives to long-distance travel such as teleconferencing or online resources.