Chasing Mobility Habits: A Comparative Analysis of Survey Design Processes to Track University Communities’ Flows in Genoa and Catania
摘要
Mobility Management has gained increasing relevance after Covid-19 outbreak. The availability of tools supporting companies and Public Administrations in the sustainable and efficient planning of employees commuting mobility has indeed showed its full potential since then. Accordingly, between 2020 and 2021, as far as the Italian national context is concerned, several decrees and laws were published to foster similar practices. In this direction, companies, public administrations and schools gathering more than 100 employees were required to appoint a dedicated Mobility Manager in charge of developing a Home-to-Work Commuting Plan. Universities have to accomplish this requirement, too. Nevertheless, due to the specific structure of the community –where workers represent only a small component of the wider group including a large share of students- they represent an interesting case-study to evaluate how mobility habits data may be collected and processed. Only the workers component dedicated survey is indeed addressed by national legislation, so that student share is targeted differently by each academic mobility management structure, ranging from universities adopting a shared approach towards both students and employees, to the ones excluding the former group from mobility survey and data collection. In this direction, a comparative evaluation of two case-studies, namely Universities of Genoa and Catania, will be presented, in order to assess potential pros and cons descending from chosen approaches, as well as propose future updates of the current legislation to fill this gap.