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Efficiency Service Department University of Delaware 120 Haines St. Newark, DE 19717

November 20, 2010

Mr. William Fitzpatrick Office of Supporting Services University of Delaware 222 S. Chapel St. Newark, DE 19717

Dear Mr. Fitzpatrick:

We understand that the lack of adequate parking on campus and some problems with the new shuttle system have become an inconvenience for many members of the community, including students, faculty and staff of the University. After your acceptance of our proposal regarding the parking problem at the University of Delaware, we conducted research to determine the best possible solution to this problem.

Enclosed with this letter is a formal report that outlines the problems that we had previously discussed, the research we have conducted, and the best solution that we feel will help you. We hope our research on how to solve this continued problem in the University of Delaware community will be helpful to you.

Please do not hesitate to contact any member of our team should you have any questions regarding this report. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Frances Giordano

Frances Giordano Efficiency Analyst

Enclosure

The Efficiency Service Team at the University of Delaware Parking Services department would like to propose a solution to the continued parking problems at the University of Delaware. Students, faculty and staff are all having significant issues with the current parking regulations at the University of Delaware. Whether the main complaint is the price of the parking or the availability of parking on campus, all drivers on campus feel that the parking system needs to be reevaluated and made more efficient for the University of Delaware Community. In your request, you had asked for an efficient plan to solve the parking issue that is causing inconvenience to the students, faculty, and staff at and near the University of Delaware campus. Actually, this is an ongoing issue at most of the nation's universities and some of the colleges. It has been speculated that this problem has a negative effect on the university/college community and the area residents in some places. The cost of parking permits, limited number of parking lots, and lack of general transportation services are the common causes of such a problem. There is a proposed plan for a new Transportation Hub in the former Chrysler site. We believe we can help you to develop a temporary and efficient plan to eliminate the discomfort of the University of Delaware community until the Transportation Hub to be built. The first step in this research report was to analyze the current parking strategy used by the University of Delaware. Next, we established a few different parking solutions to try and satisfy the members of the university community. Our next step was to gain perspective into how these members of the directly felt about the current parking system and our recommendations. We also were interested in knowing whether the community members had suggestions of their own. We created a survey and distributed it to all different members of the University of Delaware community. A copy of this survey is available in the appendix of this report. In this report, we outline the data we collected through independent research and survey distribution, as well as our recommendations on how to fix the problems at UD.
 * INTRODUCTION **

We created the survey looking to understand the community members' feelings regarding the current parking regulations, as well as our proposed plans that we created. A copy of our survey is available in the appendix of this report. The first two questions on our survey were meant to identify the type of community member that was taking this survey. The next few questions were meant to narrow down our survey recipients by their type of permit and location of parking on campus. Questions 5 and 6 aim to understand the community members' feelings about the current parking strategies that are being used on campus. Finally, questions 7, 8 and 9 aim to directly see whether the community member agrees or disagrees with the plans that we have suggested to temporarily solve the parking problems on campus.
 * SURVEY DESIGN/APPLICATION**