Partnership Spotlight: University of St. Thomas Students Improve Their Transit System Through Their Learning
By: Ada Inman
The Sustainable Communities Partnership (SCP) program at the University of St. Thomas entered into an extended partnership with Metro Transit spanning from 2017 to 2024. During this partnership, students gained valuable hands-on experience as researchers, designers, writers, marketers, and computer scientists. In return, Metro Transit gained insight and solutions to on-going and emerging challenges from an indispensable ridership demographic.
Throughout this partnership, which will continue until 2024, participating courses and their respective faculty and students:
- Designed a behavior change campaign to reduce littering at transit stops
- Authored and administered a survey gauging student perceptions of public transit
- Engaged the diverse stories of transit riders through social activism and public art
- Analyzed ridership data in order to improve service in the Twin Cities
- Planned and prototyped an app for a non-revenue fleet vehicle tracking system
- Researched strategies to improve survey response rates from Spanish speakers
- Created a strategic communications campaign encouraging student ridership
- …and more
To learn more about University of St. Thomas and Metro Transit’s partnership, read their partnership story here.
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