1. Campus Mobility What Does the Campus Master Plan Update
There is a plan
Purposeful
Objectives
Everyday is Gameday
Campus Master Plan
Ross Street example
Campus Development Plan
Upcoming changes (Future)
Potential growth
Price (cheaper vs expensive)
Alternatives that work
What does it all mean?
What Does the Campus Master Plan Update
Mean to Campus and Community Mobility

2. Mobility Hierarchy
Mobility is a key factor to how one experiences a campus as large as Texas A&M University. The physical size and population of the campus, create an enormous amount of movement each day on campus through many types of mobility systems.

3. Getting Worse in Cities of All Sizes Delay Per Auto Commuter
Congestion
Getting Worse in Cities of All Sizes
Delay Per Auto Commuter
3 million+
1 to 3 million
500K to 1 million
Less than 500K

4. It’s all about demand and supply!
Texas Growth to 2010
It’s all about demand and supply!
3 million+
238%
1-3 million
172%
125%
19%
population
vehicles
highway use
highway space

5. Bryan-College Station’s Mobility Problem
Average BCS Auto Commuter
14 Hours on the road
7 Gallons of fuel used
$345 average annual cost
Total Congestion Cost =
$63 million
Most Congested Roads
University
Wellborn
Harvey
Mitchell Pkwy
Texas Ave
George Bush
Villa Maria

6. 2 million population Some Perspective 6.5 million population
Kyle Field Gameday
120,000+ attendees/workers
2? Freeways
2 million population
Downtown Austin
125,000 workers
4 Freeways
Downtown Dallas
145,000 workers
6 Freeways
Some
Perspective
Ft Worth – 50,000 employment
From: Travis Nedrich Sent: Tuesday, October 18, :26 AM To: Jeanne Geiger Subject: RE: downtown San Antonio employment
2015 downtown employment = 46,492
2040 downtown employment = 68,837
From: Jeanne Geiger Sent: Tuesday, October 18, :20 AM To: Travis Nedrich Subject: FW: downtown San Antonio employment
Hi, Travis – do you have a 2015 and 2040 downtown employment number handy? I would call downtown that area bounded by IH 37, IH 35 and Cesar Chavez.
6.5 million population
Downtown Houston
150,000 workers
7 Freeways
7 million population

7. San Antonio, Ft Worth downtowns - 50,000 jobs)
Kyle Field Gameday
120,000+ attendees/workers
2 Freeways
2 million population
Downtown Austin
125,000 workers
4 Freeways
San Antonio, Ft Worth downtowns - 50,000 jobs)
Our ‘downtown’ (75,000+ students, staff and faculty)
is also the
4th largest downtown Monday to Friday
Some
Perspective
Downtown Dallas
145,000 workers
6 Freeways
Ft Worth – 50,000 employment
From: Travis Nedrich Sent: Tuesday, October 18, :26 AM To: Jeanne Geiger Subject: RE: downtown San Antonio employment
2015 downtown employment = 46,492
2040 downtown employment = 68,837
From: Jeanne Geiger Sent: Tuesday, October 18, :20 AM To: Travis Nedrich Subject: FW: downtown San Antonio employment
Hi, Travis – do you have a 2015 and 2040 downtown employment number handy? I would call downtown that area bounded by IH 37, IH 35 and Cesar Chavez.
6.5 million population
Downtown Houston
150,000 workers
7 Freeways
7 million population

8. CS Traffic Control Center
Will Bryan-College Station’s Mobility Problem Be A Quality-of-Life Issue?
Future congestion will grow --
causing extra time on the road
Hours
to 22 Hours
to 30 Hours
CS Traffic Control Center
2014 Commuter Delay
BCS hours
El Paso hours
Corpus Christi: hours
Brownsville, Laredo 20 hours

9. Road Network Comparisons Point to the Problems
Bryan-College Station looks ….
More like Austin than San Antonio
#12 in congestion #33 in congestion

10. Road Network Comparisons What Are Some Solutions?
Bryan -
College Station
<<<???>>>
What actions can we take now?
Use all options – travel mode, tele-work, flex work hours
How can we develop larger improvements?
Roads? Transit? Housing/Retail/Office Mixed-Use?
Economic competitiveness? Quality of Life benefits?
Most folks around here ‘know’ Austin traffic is bad – I’m playing off that.

11. Campus Development Plan
DRAFT
There is a vision and a plan
To be Purposeful
Lets use what we’ve learned to make that vision a reality.

12. Mobility Hierarchy
Mobility is a key factor to how one experiences a campus as large as Texas A&M University. The physical size and population of the campus, create an enormous amount of movement each day on campus through many types of mobility systems.

13. Multimodal is Already Here!
23% bus to campus
12% walk, bike, other
6% carpool
Bike Sharing (Zip Bike)
Multi-modal mobile app
(There are approximately 9,000 to 13,000 bikes on campus on any given day depending on off campus commuting volume.)
Upcoming opportunities
Mobile app development

14. Where We Were in Fall 2015
Enrollment up 15% from 2012 to 2015 Bus ridership is up 29% from 2012 to 2015 Parking spaces unchanged?

15. Serve Student Commuting Patterns
Students shifting housing areas
Students moving from older to newer developments
Bus ridership data shows shift
Using data to provide the best service with the resources we have

16. Pedestrians Are Priority
Pedestrian-Priority Network
The physical outcome of the Mobility Hierarchy is the Pedestrian-Priority Zone, which is defined as an area of campus that gives priority to pedestrians limiting a majority of vehicle traffic. The physical result of the pedestrian-priority zone is to relocate roadways and parking to the perimeter of campus in order to create an internal network of improved multi-use pathways that tie the entire campus core together in an attractive, seamless, and intuitive way. The pedestrian-priority zone is not a physical barrier to vehicles, but instead a planning tool for future development to prioritize the pedestrian connections over the vehicular access within these areas.
The expansion of, and support for, the pedestrian-priority zone on campus has been a driving theme for this campus master plan update, building upon the a goal within the 2004 Plan, Establish an accessible, pedestrian campus. The 2004 Campus Master planned a 'Pedestrian Activity Zone' that covered most the Historic Core and stretched across Wellborn Road using a series of planned grade separations and planning to keep private cars to the periphery.
Concurrent with the implementation of the 2004 CMP, a cultural shift began to occur. The conversion of many internal campus roads (such as Ross Street) to multi-use, limited access roadways that give priority to pedestrians and bicyclists during week-day, daytime hours. The grade separations along Wellborn Road also allowed students to seamlessly traverse between East and West Campus. And many of the large surface lots were replaced with buildings, pushing parking to the perimeter of campus and into structured parking garages.
The 2016 plan uses this momentum to make additional strategic decisions to remove roadways and parking internal to campus in order to continue the prioritization of the pedestrian.

17. Accommodate
More Bicycles

18. Transit Evolution

19. Parking Will Be Moved Proposed Parking Alterations
Periphery parking has a multitude of benefits for a campus environment, including Campus user safety, social and environmental.
In order to improve the pedestrian experience and safety on campus, parking lots will be removed from the central core of east and west campus. The affected parking stalls will be replaced in parking structures along the periphery of campus. Removing the surface lots aid in reducing vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle conflicts by encouraging vehicles to park before entering the dense and heavily populated campus core. The location of parking structures will provide opportunities for transportation mode changes by providing adjacent transit stops and bicycle parking within or on the perimeter of the garages. Perimeter parking has social benefits related to the removal of parking in the core of campus allows the land areas to be replaced with greenspaces. These areas provide opportunities for people to interact. Greenspaces also provide ample amount of environmental benefits such as sustainable stormwater management practices.
Parking structures are planned to relieve current parking demands such as areas east of Bizzell Street and adjacent to Reed Arena, as well as to accommodate future development on West Campus and Research Park. The locations specified in the CMP Update are suggested locations, and should be studied in detail as development occurs. As development happens over time, smaller garages can be constructed versus one large garage per area. This allows the University to build parking as it is needed, and also disperses vehicles around to aid in congestion issues accessing the garages.
The number of ingress/egress points for parking structures is determined by an analysis including the peak hours volume (quantity) of vehicles entering and exiting the garage and who are the users/what is it used for. The driveway capacity must be studied as well including: the geometry (how many lanes? Easy to approach or not?), street it connects to (congestion or not), and controlled gate (type of controlled gate used).

20. … and Roadways Will Be Changed

21. What Will This Look Like?
(You do remember
this is a DRAFT, right?)

22. Continue transforming the mobility landscape
Historic Core Example
Continue transforming the mobility landscape

23. Transformational Mobility Plan for Campus In Progress
Innovative technologies, services, and approaches.
Detailed ground work for implementation.
Meet the vision & objectives in Updated Campus Master Plan.
Ensure Texas A&M University’s leadership position in developing, testing, and deploying autonomous transportation systems.
2-year study using the Campus Master Plan update framework.

24. Transformational Mobility Plan for Campus Tasks
Advisory Committee With Regular Meetings
Data Collection and Analysis
Innovative Scenarios and Evaluation Criteria (Mobility and Travel Options)
Characteristics of Campus User Groups
Review Plans, Projects, and Activities
Transformational Mobility and Travel Option Scenarios
Examples of Autonomous Transportation and Innovative Approaches in Campus Settings
Develop an Implementation Plan for Preferred Scenarios

25. Alternative Transportation
Bike Lease Program
Borrow a Bike
Park and Ride
Car Share
Ride Share
Break Shuttle
(There are approximately 9,000 to 13,000 bikes on campus on any given day depending on off campus commuting volume.)
Upcoming opportunities
Mobile app development

26. Campus Technology Demonstrations
Independent, objective evaluation of technologies and services proposed for campus
Extensive student involvement
Achieve multimodal goals
Recommend technologies and practices for immediate inclusion in planning activities
Guidelines for assessing and incorporating new technologies
Signals, communication, information

27. It is the Plan that Makes it Work!
We Win Traffic on Football Gamedays
It is the Plan that Makes it Work!
…And the process is why every day can be a gameday
Parking, Mobility, Quality of Campus Life
There is a plan
Purposeful
Objectives
Everyday is Gameday
Campus Master Plan
Ross Street example
Campus Development Plan
Upcoming changes (Future)
Potential growth
Price (can we provide cheaper travel with new options)
Alternatives that work
What does it all mean?

28. Key Elements of Gameday Operations
Work the Plan, Not the Problem – and adjust quickly
Separate the flows of pedestrians and cars
Fans - Check entry & exit routes
More productive buses, better routes
Traffic control center, signals, officers, smartphone app
1st responders, game operations staff, community leaders
Lots of practice & excellent people!!!

29. law enforcement agencies
Partners Are Critical to the Plan’s Success
Safety &
law enforcement agencies
Transportation Services
Marketing & Communications
Athletics
Student Affairs
Police, etc.

30. How Is This Happening? Fans – Know their routes
Traffic Control Center – monitor and adjust - like a big city traffic center
Cameras, software, controllers, message channels
Incentives -- Better buses, better ped and car routes, higher parking costs
Partnerships with first responders, game operations staff, community leaders
Gameday focus for addressing current issues on campus and surrounding areas

31. Motivated Consumers On gamedays …… we use space more efficiently
people park once
don’t move their cars
then ride the bus or walk
Why???
We use a range of prices to regulate demand
Higher parking charge to park close
Moderate charge to park farther and ride the bus
Or, … park and ride for free

32. Provide Incentives - Change the Results
Gameday lot charge - $20
West Garage - $45
Permit daily - $1.13
WCG Permit daily - $1.81
Plus, ….. Congestion
Gameday charges give a reason to search out options
A&M permit cars: ½ person fewer per car than pay parkers
Daily commuters with an annual permit don’t have a reason to search out or explore options.

33. 35% More Football Fans, 9% More Cars
2014 to 2016
~21,300 parked cars
2013
UTenn ,500 cars
~19,600 parked cars
27,000 to 30,000 bus riders
14,000 bus riders

34. Policies, Plans & Programs Can Improve Transportation

35. The experience is helping many other big events
Lessons Learned
The experience is helping many other big events
Engage game operations, traffic & community
Awareness of community activities for Basketball, Baseball, Ring Day, Muster, Graduations, Big Event, etc.
Work the plan with better technology, practiced staff, informed and motivated attendees

36. Mobility Hierarchy
Mobility is a key factor to how one experiences a campus as large as Texas A&M University. The physical size and population of the campus, create an enormous amount of movement each day on campus through many types of mobility systems.

37. Can We Make Every Day a Gameday?
We can if we …..
Follow the 2017 Campus Master Plan
Invest in technology
Engage our stakeholders
Operate proactively
Provide incentives
..but also, accept the situation
We have a big downtown and we have big city traffic!

38. “Better” Starts With Change
Use available roads & green time efficiently
More choices, better technology, many benefits
Communication about routes, plans and travel options
Chancellor and President leadership
City Council policy support
Business community interest and ideas
Community acceptance of active, agile traffic plans
Provide better mobility and quality-of-life
Can we create the same plan for Monday to Friday?

39. Madison Metsker-Galarza
Questions?
Peter Lange
Debbie Hoffmann
Tim Lomax
Madison Metsker-Galarza