Employees of Loma Linda University are asked to complete the annual Mandatory Commuter Survey required by the South Coast Air Quality Management District — the air pollution control agency for Orange County and the urban portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
This area is among the smoggiest regions of the United States.
The survey is now underway for LLU employees, who were sent an administrative email with the survey link April 28. Paper surveys are also available.
Medical Center staff will be surveyed in the near future.
University employees must report how they commuted to work during the week of April 24-28, 2017: drive alone, carpool, walk, bike, ride the bus or vanpool?
Employees who worked from home or who were sick or on vacation must still complete the survey.
The survey data is used to compute the Loma Linda University’s average vehicle ridership (AVR).
“We must improve on last year’s AVR, which was 1.211,” said Patricia Ibarra, employee transportation coordinator at Loma Linda University Health. “This can be achieved if we all work together and complete the survey.”
She said, “Please complete your survey today and encourage your teammates to complete theirs.”
Departments with a 100 percent response rate will be entered into a raffle, and a person from the winning department will be randomly chosen to receive a 40” television. Last year’s LLU winner was Curt Sheline, assistant director of financial aid (pictured above).
Paper surveys and detailed instructions to complete the survey are available by contacting the Rideshare program at rideshare@llu.edu or ext. 53033.