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Traffic on Campus
Due to the concept of developmental strategies to improve the environment as well as quality of life of students and staff, Mahidol University has adopted policies to encourage walking and biking as regular means for travelling on the campus. As a result, one important project was to change roads for vehicles into walking streets by reducing three lanes from six lane roads for construction of walking paths and cycling lanes. The project aimed at promoting physical exercises by walking, jogging and biking, creating opportunities for pedestrians to greet each other, planting to create shade of trees, creating a green lifestyle by organizing creative activities in the new areas to add color and diversity of life. These activities
conform to the Toronto Charter for Physical Activity: A Global Call for Action which aims to promote well-beings, physical and mental health, disease prevention, social link development, quality of life development, and so on.
Additionally, the university has planned to develop and improve roads along with public transportation on the campus to all commuters and passengers. With regard to this service, there are a total of 16 trams (shuttles) with 4 lines, which was changed from using NGV fuel to use electricity in 2017, and there are also 52 intercampus buses to provide public transportation services for students and staff.
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