I started this paper by recognizing that college campuses
are distinct communities, in the words ofCreighton (1998)
‘microcosms of society’, and that they have varied and
often-large environmental impacts. Then I argued that
although transportation in and around university campuses
in the United States has always been a challenge (Farris and
Radwan, 1989), recent searches to alleviate the transportation problem are part of a broad movement for ‘greening
the Ivory Tower