Evening shuttle
Connect campus with a nearby transit hub on weekday evenings, prioritising students who attend evening classes.
Still unknown: tested journey times, demand, and measured emissions effects.
Your learning outcome
Compare two campus transport proposals and justify a recommendation using at least two relevant pieces of supplied evidence, one tradeoff, and one limitation.
Begin with the decision
One term. Two possible pilots.
Fictional Northbridge College has $30,000 for one term’s transport pilot. In this exercise, the budget can fund either proposal. No cost breakdown has been supplied.
Cycling support
Add secure cycle parking and a basic repair station near the main teaching building, prioritising people who can and want to cycle.
Still unknown: seasonal participation and who would change their travel mode.
Fictional teaching scenario. All campus details and observations are invented. Neither proposal is designated as universally correct.
Explore the supplied evidence
What do these records show?
This dataset contains 16 synthetic commute records, not real people or a survey of a campus population. Filter by mode to compare descriptive averages.
- Records shown
- 16
- Mean one-way distance
- 6.03 km
- Mean trip time
- 26.81 min
- Mean out-of-pocket cost
- $1.84 CAD
| Trip ID | Mode | Distance (km) | Trip time (min) | Cost (CAD) |
|---|
Distance is one-way. Cost is an invented out-of-pocket amount for one trip; zero does not mean there are no wider costs. A group mean describes these records. It does not predict what would happen if someone changed modes.
Check your reasoning
Pause before making a claim
These checks concern what the evidence supports. They do not decide which proposal you should recommend.
Make a defensible recommendation
What would you pilot, and why?
Write a 150–200 word recommendation, or make an annotated comparison with an equivalent explanation. Use the same evidence-and-reasoning criteria for either format.
- Choose a proposal and explain the goal you are prioritising.
- Use at least two relevant details from the scenario or dataset.
- Explain one tradeoff and one limitation.
- Propose one way to evaluate whether the pilot helps its intended users.
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A defensible recommendation can support either proposal. Explain how your evidence relates to your goal and what it cannot establish.