Cards Commuter Challengers prevent 3,269 lbs. of carbon pollution over 5,629 miles, saving $2200, and burning 76,000 calories!

Cards Commuter Challenge 2024From August 26 - September 30, 2024, students, faculty and staff across the University of Louisville participated in the Cards Commuter Challenge, an annual competition sponsored by the university-wide Sustainability Council to encourage people to save money, burn calories, put an end to pollution, and win prizes…all by simply choosing to get to campus in a new way!

Participants recorded their trips on Cardinal Directions throughout the Challenge, and each week they had the chance to win one of the $50 weekly prizes or the $250 Grand Prize! Any trip by means other than driving alone increased your chances of winning.

Weekly $50 Winners included:

  1. Music Therapy Professor, Chris Millett, who carpooled to/from work, avoiding 84 miles of driving in week 1
  2. John Pyron, a Nursing program manager who rode TARC free to/from work three times and biked six times in week 2
  3. Bill Cull in IT Services, who rode TARC free to/from work 8 miles every day in week 3
  4. REACH Graduate Assistant, Lane Scott, who took advantage of great fall weather bicycling to/from campus in week 4

FINAL RESULTS:

Cards Commuter Challenge 2024 FINAL RESULTS
Chloe Forsting - Grand Prize Winner 2023 Bike Month ChallengeWe were thrilled with our collective accomplishments: Over the five weeks, participants logged 960 trips on foot, bike, bus, carpool, or telecommuting, mitigating 3,269 pounds of carbon pollution over 5,629 miles, saving $2200, and burning 76,000 calories!

Congratulations go out to John Pyron, a Nursing program manager, who logged the most trips (78 trips by bus, bicycle and walking, totaling 137 miles!) and to our Grand Prize $250 raffle winner: Library Assistant, Chloe Forsting, who was randomly selected from all the participants after logging 39 trips by bicycle, totaling 109 miles!

Here are the final standings (View Leaderboard):

Cardinal Directions is UofL's free trip-planning and carpool-matching service!

Rank Name Trips
1 John Pyron 78
2 Sophia Anner 74
3 Justin Mog 72
4 Rachel Singel 61
5 Jessi Stivers 56
6 delaney scott 49
7 Isabella Bastien 48
8 CHRISTINE ARMSTRONG 46
9 William Cull 46
10 David Henry 46
11 Clinton Coulter 43
12 Matthew Houlette 42
13 Chad White 42
14 Chloe Forsting 39
15 Emma Beck 36
16 Jessica Smith 30
17 Per Wessels 20
18 Emerald Starr 16
19 Jacek Jasinski 14
20 Jessica Gardner 12
21 Heaven Wolfe 8
22 Kavi Jakes 8
23 Sean Willis 6
24 Annette Robinson 4
25 Steffany Gayton 4
26 Aniyah Thorpe 4
27 Brian Barnes 4
28 LaRee Shontee 4
29 Colton Bachinski 4
30 Fatuma Abdi 4
31 Chris Millett 3
32 Jahnavi Doddapaneni 3
33 Kathryn Williams 3
34 Vivek Nirmal 3
35 Diane Neubauer 2
36 Olive Dreckman 2
37 Cecilia Durbin 2
38 Anna Dittman 2
39 Shameem Varikkodan 2
40 Manivannan Vangalur 2
41 Killian Bowen 1
42 Andrew Roberts 1

TARC Airport RouteThough this year's Challenge is over, we encourage you to keep up the momentum throughout the year!

  • Register for free on the Cardinal Directions trip-finding and carpool-matching platform
  • Try these life-affirming alternatives to the expense, road-rage, pollution, and parking hassles of driving alone:
  • BUS: Ride any TARC route free with UofL ID (just swipe your card as you board - any time, anywhere).
  • CARDpool: Organize your own carpool with friends, family, colleagues, or classmates; or find rides & offer rides online through Cardinal Directions.
  • WALK, SKATE, or BIKE: Get your workout just by getting where you need to go under your own power! If you don't have your own bike, borrow one free from UofL Bikeshare.
  • VANPOOL: Employees can get in on a vanpool, get your ride home guaranteed, or enter to win additional  prizes with Every Commute Counts.
  • SKIP THE COMMUTE: Work or study from home for maximum convenience, savings, and safety!

Explore all of UofL's Sustainable Transportation Options.