Campus Parking Supply Impacts on Transportation Mode-Choice
Abstract
Parking demand is a significant land-use problem in campus planning. The parking
policies of universities and large corporations with facilities located in small urban areas
shape the character of their campuses. These facilities will benefit from a simplified
methodology to study the effects of parking availability on transportation mode mix and
impacts on recruitment and staffing policies. This study introduces an analytical
framework Using simple models to provide campus planners with insights about how
parking supply and demand affects campus transportation mode choice. The methodology
relies only on aggregate mode choice data for the special generator zone and the average
aggregate volume/capacity ratio projections for all external routes that access the zone.
This reduced data requirement significantly lowers the analysis cost and time and obviates
the need for specialized modelling software and spatial network analysis tools. Results
illustrate that the framework is effective for analysing mode choice changes under different
scenarios of parking supply and population growth.