Sustainable and active travel
By choosing to travel actively and sustainably, you can reduce your carbon footprint to help us reach Net Zero Carbon by 2035.
Active travel
Active travel means walking, wheeling, running, cycling, or using public transport.
Choose these methods to increase your health, get some exercise and reduce your carbon emissions. Find out how you can take advantage of our discounts and schemes to make active travel even easier.
- Walking
With lots of lovely walks on our doorstep, you're spolit for choice when it comes to walking to campus. Try the South Downs National Park which borders our campus, or the Boundary Walk around Stanmer Park.
Use Google Maps to plan your journey or check Brighton and Hove City Council’s information about walking where you can find routes in and around Brighton for all abilities.
If you live further away from campus, try walking to the nearest bus or train station – it’s an easy way to incorporate walking into your day-to-day journeys.
- Cycling
Sussex is a bike-friendly campus with cycle paths, more than 20 bike rack locations and free shower facilities available. Brighton also has many cycle lanes, including along the main route to campus along Lewes Road, making cycling a great option for commuting to and from university.
Find out more information about cycling:
- check out our map of bicycle parking on campus
- find out about our cycling facilities on campus
- Brighton & Hove City Council has a map of cycle routes across the city to help you plan your journey and cycling training courses
- hire a bike on campus from BTN Bikeshare
- join our Cycle to Work scheme allowing staff to buy a bike and accessories through salary sacrifice
- buy a secondhand bike from Bike Hub or Cranks
- join SussexSport bike training courses
- if you'd like to build confidence or want help with your cycling route to campus, get in touch with our Sustainable Travel Advisor, Monika Farkas: m.farkas@sussex.ac.uk.
- Bus
You can get the bus to campus from many areas of Sussex, including several routes from the centre of Brighton.
Brighton & Hove Buses offer student discounts on bus tickets.
Staff can get a 10% discount on Brighton & Hove networkSAVER bus tickets (7 day, 28 day, 90 day and annual) using the key smartcard or the app.
- Train
Trains run directly to Falmer station from Brighton, Lewes, Seaford, Eastbourne and Hastings. Once at Falmer station, go through the underpass under the A27 to get to our campus.
Students with a valid 16-25 Railcard can get a Unizone season ticket to reduce the cost of train travel.
For more information about public transport to campus, including accessibility, check our bus travel and train travel pages.
Sussex staff can get a 15% discount on Southern rail services by registering for the Easit scheme.
An interest-free loan is available for staff who wish to purchase a season ticket. Find out more about our staff travel loan.
- Car
We encourage staff, students and visitors to choose sustainable or active travel methods to come to campus wherever possible.
If you do need to drive, talk to a colleague about a car share. If you register on the Easit website, there’s a section for lift-sharing where you can share the cost and save on emissions too.
Find out more information about driving:
- join the Sustainable Sussex Car Benefit scheme. Reduce your emissions by buying a new or second-hand electric car. Staff who qualify for the benefit can lease an electric vehicle while making tax and National Insurance savings from their pay packet
- charge your electric vehicle on campus.