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__ Analysis of interview results: __ The interviews conducted with City of Newark Parking and Transportation and UD Transportation services revealed that there are ample parking lots on the campus. Based on the interview with Parking Superintendent Mr. Courtney Mulvanity, City of Newark has plans on increasing metered parking lots in the center city by the end of next year. They also plan to reduce the number of monthly parking lots for the employees work in the center city. According to Mr. Mulvanity, there are no plans about increasing free bussing services, and there is no more free after hours street parking. Based on the interview with Mr. Jared Walfish, assistant to Mr. Bill Fitzpatrick at UD Transportation Services, the preferential use of Blue lots by staff and faculty resulted in lack of shuttle services at the beginning of this semester. UD therefore placed extra shuttle services during rush hour to resolve the problem. Additionally, radios were installed on busses to make shuttle services more efficient. They do not have any plans on encouraging students to walk, however they would like to support students for biking. Neither City of Newark nor UD Transportation services have any future plans in working with DART for free or reduced price public transportation. __ Analysis of internet search results: __ __ Analysis of survey comments: __ The charts including current parking system on campus and figures of survey results to be incorporated into this section.

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The cost of parking permits, limited number of parking lots, and lack of general transportation services can have a negative impact on the university community, and can be frustrating. The purpose of this report is to provide a solution to the ongoing parking and transportation problems at the University of Delaware. ======

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The Efficiency Service Team at the University of Delaware conducted a survey with the faculty, staff and students to understand the extent of the problem. In addition, interviews were conducted with the staff at City of Newark Parking and Transportation and UD Transportation Services to understand current status of what has been done to address the issue. The data obtained from surveys and interviews were analyzed and are included in this report. Even though, there were as many walkers as drivers on the campus the data clearly revealed that there is a high level of dissatisfaction with the current parking system. ======

The Efficiency Services Team recommends the following based on the survey, the interview results and the other universities’ parking and transportation services:

 * Re-prioritizing the parking lot access
 * Eliminating car ownership of the students who live on or nearby the campus
 * Encouraging the students who live close by to walk and/or to bike
 * Increasing the free or reduced-fare passes to the public transportation
 * Separating the faculty/staff and student parking lots
 * Encouraging the students, staff and faculty for carpooling


 * Recommendations **

Based on the research findings, the Efficiency Team recommends that re-prioritizing the parking lot access for the university commuters is one of the effective solutions for the current parking issues. First of all, commuters get priority of parking availability over residents; not necessarily priority of lots. Residents, meeting Credit and GPA criteria, will be given priority based on the level they fall into. Top priority levels will be filled into the highest priority lots that have not been filled by Mandatory Parkers. We established that parking for residents is a privilege, so the criteria is to reward upperclassmen and students with high GPAs. The garages will not be filled to capacity to allow for visitor parking. Commuters will be accommodated before residents (students within UD radius) · Level 1 - Juniors and Seniors - Lots: Kent; McKinley Lab; Trabant Garage (after faculty, to accommodate) · Level 2 - Freshman and Sophomores - Lots: Big Bob Commuters will have strict deadlines to abide by so that the leftover space can be distributed to deserving residents.  **Privilege Parking** Residents within UD Radius · Level 1 - 110 Credits; 3.0 GPA · Level 2 - 90 Credits; 3.3 GPA · Level 3 - 90 Credits; 2.5 GPA

· Level 4 - 65 Credits; 2.5 GPA

The table summarizes our re-prioritized plan for UD community.

2)-McKinley 3- Trabant 4- CFA <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5- Perkins <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6- Lot 19 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7- Wyoming Road <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8- Christiana Towers ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2- Lerner Hall <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3- Little Bob <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4- Trabant Garage <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5- CFA Garage || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Designated lots 7am-5pm Weekdays <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eliminates traffic between classes b/c Faculty stay all day <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Trabant Garage and CFA Garage; to accomodate capacity ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Status ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">LOTS ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">NOTES ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Freshman and sophomore living on campus || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">No parking lots ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Non- Faculty || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1- Kent
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Freshman and Sophomore Commuters || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Big Bob Lot || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Can be opened up to others if space available ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Faculty (Mandatory Parking) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1- Library Lots

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿T he Efficiency Team also recommends the elimination of car ownership of the students who live on or nearby the campus, and encouraging those students to consider using another mode of transportation such as biking and walking. The carpooling can be another effective solution for the current parking problems. The students, staff and faculty who live close to each other can be encouraged to carpool by providing them with incentives like reducing the cost of parking passes, priority locations, and matching potential participants. Finally the team suggests that the free public transportation be increased on campus, and in and around Newark.