Understanding the Role of UFOs Within Space Exploitation

In this paper, we are concerned with understanding the efficient planning and management of teaching space, such as lecture rooms, within universities. There is a perception that such space is a rather scarce resource. However, some studies have revealed that in many institutions it is actually chronically under-used [3, 4]. Specifically, overall space-usage efficiency is measured by the “utilisation” (U), which is basically the percentage of available “seat-hours” that are exploited: