Increasing the mobility of University North students by improving the railway infrastructure: Case study on the Varaždin-Koprivnica route

The trend of an increasing number of student travellers from the University of the North, the University Centers of Koprivnica and Varaždin also affects the quality of their mobility. The mobility of student-passengers in rail passenger transport is directly related to the quality of service and the inevitable maximum safety aspect, but also to the appropriate railway infrastructure. According to the above, it is necessary to analyse the current state of transport infrastructure and propose activities to increase the mobility of student-passengers. This paper analyses the current status of student-passenger mobility in railway passenger transport, and also analyses the regional features of road and railway transport infrastructure, state road DC-2 and railway R202 Varaždin-Dalj, located between the cities of Varaždin and Koprivnica, with regard to route characteristics and infrastructure facilities. As part of the work, a survey was conducted through questionnaires, and questionnaires were completed by students-travellers of the University of the North.

Perfil del alumno de la Universidad Tecnológica del Norte de Aguascalientes

For the attention and follow-up of the student it is important to have information that allows carrying out actions with opportunity in their educational trajectory, with a view to the permanence and conclusion of their professional training. In turn, that the follow-up task by the tutor is oriented based on information from the student regarding their academic, socioeconomic and personal conditions that set the guideline for the tutorial function. Derived from the above, the objective is to characterize the student of the Technological University of the North of Aguascalientes, identifying their conditions of vulnerability that derive in a profile of the student, through the initial questionnaire of the newly admitted student of the September-December 2018 period of the TSU level. The student's diagnostic instrument, structured in three aspects, allows to identify conditions of vulnerability of academic, socioeconomic and / or psychological type, conditions that trigger an important part of the tutorial function. Having a profile represents an input for the preparation of the Tutorial Action Plan by the tutors and affects the lines of action in the Institutional Tutoring Program.