Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues, Examples, Solutions | 
 enlarge | Authors: Will Toor, Spenser Havlick
Publisher: Island Press
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ISBN: 1559636564
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Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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Getting to school February 1, 2006
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Of the many problems Americans frequently complain about, one has been lurking under the radar over the last several decades, and has occasionally surfaced in nasty fights at the state and local government level. This problem is that of transportation to and from college campuses. As the US population grows, the availability of open land goes down, and the number of college students increase, physical access to colleges has become a perennial issue in many states. I came to discover this in the past decade. First as a student, and now as a staff scientist at Arizona State University, I have been at ASU since 1994. In that time, I have watched parking at ASU go from great, to downright horrible.
Dr. Michael Crow became ASU's president in 2002, and since then, he has proceeded to enact numerous changes at ASU. One of them is the transformation of ASU from a commuter campus to a residential campus, and the associated loss of parking spaces inherent in such a change. As part of this, Dr. Crow had asked the students of ASU to form a task force to address transportation needs. I joined this task force, and as part of my duties, read a lot of books on transportation issues of college campuses. This is one of the books I read. I am glad I read this book. It examines transportation management at universities across the US, from large public schools, to small private schools, from schools in the countryside to schools in downtown. This book looks at the various aspects of transportation management, such as public transit, carpooling, greener forms of transit, correlating the demand and supply of parking on campuses, how to get schools and other government agencies to work together, etc, etc...
The book provides detailed case studies of how specific schools have handled their transportation needs for both their employees and students. Successes and failures are highlighted, and how both came to be. Details are given, such as costs, timelines, maps showing how transit plans were developed, charts correlating bus usage with ticket prices, etc... The primary conclusion reached by the book are similar to those I reached while working on the task force at ASU: reduce demand for car parking instead increasing supply. All in all, a great book that should be required reading for anyone who intends to work in the administration of a university or college. I do not give it five stars because it lacks examples from other countries, where cars are used less frequently than here in America.
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