Characterization of University Parking Systems

Abstract

Most universities are challenged by having limited land resources, including parking stalls, to serve an increasing number of students, faculty members, staff and visitors. The common parking management strategies include supply management (e.g., construction of more stalls, controlling the stall usage) and demand management (e.g., permit pricing and encouraged use of transit). The supply and demand management policies are implemented by zoning of parking lots (allocation of stalls to different types of users), differentiation of permits and pricing, preferential treatment (e.g., for carpool vehicles), etc. In this project the researchers have (1) reviewed the parking policies and management practices on Cornell, UCD, USF and UTEP campuses; (2) identified intelligent transportation systems and innovative applications on parking at the four campuses; (3) proposed an analysis framework to evaluate parking policy on community health, based on the hybrid VISSIM–CMEM approach, and used the UTEP campus as the demonstration example.