Transportation

While Williams College sometimes feels secluded, there's a constant stream of people and things being moved to and from the campus. Students travel here in the fall and leave in the spring, and they drive around campus and the local community during the academic year. Athletic teams take buses and vans to practices, games and meets. Faculty and staff commute daily to campus, and often travel further afield for professional work and conferences. Many college departments have vehicles that are used around campus and nearby.

While Williams fairly closely tracks the amount of energy it uses in campus buildings, there are many kinds of transportation that are not closely tracked. Determining the environmental impact of these activities, and how to work on reducing those impacts has proved challenging and may remain so.

Read more about transportation to and from Williams, and its environmental impacts -->
Read more about what Williams is doing to reduce the impacts of transportation. -->

Much of the information in this section has been digested from work done by Katie White '11 in the summer of 2008 as an intern for the Luce Project.   Click here to read her full report.