BGU Mobility Survey

Analysis of BGU Students Experience of Traveling to Campus

Ben Gurion University

Health@Place

Desert Cities

In/Formal

NUR’s BGU Mobility Survey, carried out in collaboration with ZenCity and BGU Faculty, captures information on how students move between Ben-Gurion University and what they feel about points of interest along the way. Through a May 2025 survey of roughly 200 undergraduate students, the project evaluates which part of the journey are most difficult for students, maps where trips begin, analyzes which campus gates are most used, and describes the places they stop along the way.

The findings show that walking is the dominant mode (66 of 105 recorded routes), with cycling, buses, and private vehicles making up smaller shares. Notably many students reported that lack of shade and distance made it difficult to walk to campus, even though many of the same respondents lived only a few hundred meters away. Students reported 180 points of interest documented and notes attached to 92.2% of them, highlighting how daily journeys are shaped by services, street conditions, and amenity clusters around campus.

This work gives university stakeholders a practical foundation for decision-making. It supports targeted investments in the streets and crossings students rely on most, helps prioritize interventions around the factors students care about, and strengthens long-term planning for more accessible campus-city movement.