Creating Sustainable Transportation Universities

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Creating Sustainable Transportation _at_ Universities

• Brian D. Shaw
• Director of
• Campus Transportation Parking

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Where is UC?
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UC Campus Parking Locations
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Where UC Employees Live
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Where UC Students Live
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How UC folks get to campus
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Sustainable Transportation Its about choice

• No silver bullet consider all modes
• Let the individuals decide
• Dont give away parking
• Use what you already have
• Look for opportunities to improve
• Lend a helping hand

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Developing programs

• 2 Committees Policy Operations
• Must have top level buy-in
• Do not create programs in a vacuum!
• Feedback, feedback, feedback
• Take the show on the road

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The Committees

• Policy top level management, meets quarterly
• Operations mid-level managers, meets monthly

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Student Involvement

• Go to them Student Government, Advisory
  Committees
• Unique issues and concerns
• Environmental Advocacy
• Safety
• Late Night
• Off-Campus

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Building the case for demand management The facts

• Parking 30-100/month
• CTA monthly pass 75
• METRA monthly pass 52.65-197.10
• South Shore monthly pass 82.35-273.75
• Gas costs over 3/gallon

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The Truth about Parking

• 2,000/year to maintain/operate a space
• Parking not priced to cover expenses
• Taxes
• Management, security, operations maintenance
• Demand management
• Takes away land for other needs

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Transit Parking Goal Getting the Balance Right

• Shifting the Demand on Campus from
• Driving Alone cheaper, easier mode
• Level the playing field
• Make public transit cheaper than parking
• Equalize parking rates across campus

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Implementing the Master Plan The Transportation
Impact

• Increasing demand for parking
• Parking lots Building sites
• More buildings More people
• More people More demand for parking

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Mitigating the Impacts

• Two Complementary Strategies
• Higher parking rates
• disincentive to park on campus
• provides funding for other modes of travel
• Level the playing field
• Make parking cost more than other options

• Reduce demand for parking
• allow continued growth of University
• minimizing impact to the surrounding
  neighborhoods
• limit need for additional parking facilities
• foster travel choice flexibility

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Strategies in action The Solutions

• Heightened Enforcement
• Compliment demand management

• Increase parking rates
• to equalize
• stop subsidizing parking
• Improve demand management programs
• give people choice flexibility of how to get to
  campus
• improve each year with additional funding and
  program growth.

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New Parking Rate Formula

• Adequacy of rates will be reviewed each year and
  adjusted accordingly based on these factors
• Taxes previously unfunded
• Management, security, operations maintenance
  previously under-funded
• Demand management - new
• Demand Management Efforts to be funded -
• Base Program FY 07
• Improved Transit FY 07
• Shuttles FY 08-09
• Transit Vanpool subsidies FY 07-08
• Other incentives FY 09

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Why Demand Management?

• Levels the playing field between driving alone
  and other travel modes
• Provides travel choice flexibility
• Will build off existing efforts
• CTA, METRA South Shore, evening buses, walkable
  environment, biking

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Creating the Base Program FY07

• Guaranteed Ride Home Security
• Occasional Use Parking Flexibility
• Car Sharing Choice
• Carpool/Vanpool parking Incentive

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Parking Cash-Out

• Let the employee choose
• Call it a Transportation Allowance
• Use Pre-Tax program to pay for
• Parking
• Transit
• Vanpools
• Keep allowance as taxable salary

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Local Transit Program

• Partnership with CTA
• Free to UC population
• Open to anyone
• Cost Effective
• Community Relations
• Connectivity to Rail Systems

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Private Transportation Services

• Safety and Security
• Ability to do charters using UC buses
• Para-transit service
• Evening Late-night transportation

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Safety Transportation

• Improving awareness of available options
• Coordinating with UC Police
• Do not deny a ride!

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Partnerships Coordination

• Partnering with UC Hospitals
• CTA/Metra shuttle
• Use of each others shuttle services
• Help with parking
• Funding

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Future program elements

• Vanpool development assistance FY 07
• Marketing Recognition campaigns FY 07-08
• Transit and vanpool subsidies FY 07
• Northside/Downtown express bus FY 08
• Red/Green L shuttle FY 07
• Incentives for bikers walkers FY 09
• Improved bike storage cages in garages
• Discount gym memberships
• Occasional transit usage
• Shoes, equipment

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Vanpool Development

• Use density plot to ID routes
• Provide upfront discount to join
• Free parking to vanpools
• Get the word out
• Bribe em with food!

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Motivator The Dan Ryan

• Take advantage of road construction
• Could motivate some to change mode
• Provides help and options

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Whats in it for me?

• Save !
• Gas, wear tear, insurance, parking
• Quality of Life
• Make better use of commute time
• Read, sleep, work, exercise, etc.
• Reduce stress
• Environmental benefits
• Flexibility
• Avoid the Ryan!

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Commute Examples

• Long Distance Commuter 10 miles
• Options METRA, NICTD, CTA, Carpool and/or
  Vanpool
• Short Distance Commuter - lt10 miles
• Options Walking, biking, CTA, carpool, UC
  sponsored transportation (CTA Evening buses)
• We will help you figure it out!

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Contact Info

• Brian D. Shaw
• [phone]
• bshaw_at_uchicago.edu