Integrating the Transportation System with a University Transportation Master Plan

With university enrollment trends expected to increase substantially in the next decade, congestion levels within the campuses and in their vicinity, particularly in urban campus settings, are expected to become worse. In addition, university campus settings are multimodal and complex in nature, incorporating vehicular traffic, transit, and pedestrians into one transportation system. This complexity creates a significant challenge for university campus planners when trying to incorporate their campus master plan into the overall regional or metropolitan transportation system. This product provides a PowerPoint workshop for integrating the transportation system with a university transportation master plan. The presentation documents a methodology to analyze the interaction of a university campus transportation system and its surrounding metropolitan transportation system and to integrate both systems in a seamless fashion. Conclusions are specific to the University of Texas at El Paso case study, but its results will have a near-term applicability for the Texas Department of Transportation, particularly in urban areas where there are highly dense university campus populations.