Car
Car
Charging stations for electric vehicles
Public charging points are not yet available on the university campus. The university is currently working intensively on realisation options for a charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Legal regulations and structural requirements are making the implementation process more difficult.
The city of Oldenburg is working (among other things as part of its Oldenburg 2030 mobility plan and the concept for an electric mobility station) on the further development of charging infrastructure. A public fast-charging point is also being planned at the Wechloy railway station.
Existing public charging stations in Oldenburg can be found via the traffic information of the city of Oldenburg.
Vehicle fleet
The Carl von Ossietzky University fleet comprises 23 vehicles, including two with electric drives.
For the years 2017 to 2019, figures are available for the first time on both the kilometres driven and
fuel consumption.
While 19 % fewer kilometres were driven by car from 2017 to 2018, the figure rose again by almost 15 % from 2018 to 2019. If journeys by lorry are included, there was a decrease of 6% from 2017 to 2018 and an increase of 4% from 2018 to 2019.
Overall, however, there was a 10% reduction in the number of kilometres travelled during the reporting period. Although more distance was travelled with the university's own vehicles, the fuel consumption of the vehicle fleet fell from 2018 to 2019. This may be due to the fact that cars consume less fuel over longer distances than lorries or that less payload was transported.
Current status of the "car park management" measure
The university's climate protection concept was adopted in 2022. As a university, we are aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. The climate protection concept was drawn up with the involvement of various stakeholders. Among other things, participants developed various measures in workshops. The climate protection concept contains over 100 measures, including the measure "AM_02 Car park management". The management of car parks is an effective measure for reducing car traffic and therefore also greenhouse gas emissions. In order to achieve our climate protection goals, we are considering implementing this measure from the university's climate protection concept accordingly. Car park management
Information on car park management
Information basis
In a first step, basic information on the initial situation at the University of Oldenburg and on (technical) implementation options was obtained and analysed. This information is presented in the parking space management information base. The information basis provides an overview of the central instruments of parking space management as a design tool for sustainable everyday mobility at the University of Oldenburg. It supports an objective exchange on the topic of parking private cars at the UOL.
Detailed planning
The next step is for the Climate Protection Management and Division 4 to draw up detailed plans for a car park management system by November 2025. The participation of university members is firmly anchored in this further process.
In January 2025, an external service provider carried out a car park survey of the existing situation on the Wechloy and Haaretor campuses. In summary, the results show that the total capacity of the parking spaces available at both locations was not reached or exceeded within any of the survey periods. With regard to university operations, there appear to be sufficient parking spaces available at all times of the day despite very high parking pressure on a normal working day. It should be noted that the survey results in the winter half-year with frosty temperatures and occasional drizzle already depict a bad weather scenario.