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Report to UIC 32 Chancellor’s Committee on Sustainability and Energy Summary of Major Findings Assets and Services • UIC has a total of 41 parking lots with 11,944 parking spaces in the east and west campuses combined. • UIC offers a variety of transportation services, including Intercampus shuttle buses between the east, west and south campuses, on-campus paratransit service for persons with disabilities, the Red Car/Off-Hour Paratransit Service, a Chauffeur service is also available and commuter buses which operate between the campus and major commuter train stations. • The campus is strategically located with several city bus routes and train services that operate through the heart of campus. • Campus fleet vehicles include those used for Campus Auto Rental Service, the campus police, and vehicles used for onsite operations and maintenance. • Currently, the institution’s motorized fleet emits 0.2 carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) per passenger mile traveled, achieving one point. • UIC draws hundreds of thousands of business and academic visitors, special events attendees and patients annually, to various facilities across campus. Demand Patterns • Overall, less than 25% of UIC faculty, students and staff who responded to the UIC Office of Sustainability Commute Survey, reported that they drive the entire commute to campus. • A little over half (55.4%) of the survey respondents use one mode of transportation to commute to UIC and the average distance traveled is 11 miles. • Approximately 44.6% of the survey respondents use two or more transportation modes to get to UIC. The average distance traveled for those using two modes is 20 miles; for those using three modes, 28 miles. • Close to 38% of faculty and staff reside in zipcodes where the transit availability is generally ‘excellent’ to ‘good’. Close to 40% reside in areas within the six counties that have ‘excellent’ pedestrian amenities; another 25% or so reside in areas with ‘good’ values of pedestrian accessibility. Employees residing in such areas, who are currently solo drivers to campus, may be considered for incentives, information and marketing to occasionally use transit to campus. 32
Report to UIC 33 Chancellor’s Committee on Sustainability and Energy • Overall, there are enough ‘spatially clustered’ groups of faculty and staff to whom transit is not available. Employees in these spatially clustered groups may be better served with express buses, vanpools, carpools and other high occupancy modes. • Almost 20% of UIC students live within 2 miles of campus and about 35% live within 5 miles. In FY2007, 3,109 students resided in campus housing in the east, south or west sides. • Close to 90% of UIC students have a valid driver’s license and about 72% have a private vehicle available to them. • More than 60% of UIC U-PASS users are ‘moderate intensity users’ who ride the transit system between 32 and 106 times per semester. About 18% are ‘high intensity users’ who ride the system 106 times per semester. Only 5% of U-PASS holders are non-users (never used the transit system at all during a semester). • There has been a 230% decrease in parking permits issued to students since the implementation of the U-PASS. There has been a 38% decrease among non-academic employee parking permits on the east side, whereas on the while there has been a slight increase on the west side. • Daily parking utilization is approximately 64% (81% west campus, 50% east campus). The medical community parking needs affords the university opportunity to allocate parking space more efficiently. Special events on campus can generate 100% parking lot utilization in the parking areas close to the venue. • The number of academic participants in the transit benefit program has increased 233% while the number of nonacademic participants has increased only 26%. • In terms of schedules, staff and part-time students have the most predictable schedules. Faculty members tend to be on campus during the business day with a somewhat varied schedule, while full-time students have the greatest schedule variety, with more than 25% stating that their schedules vary considerably. STARS Standards • Currently, the institution’s motorized fleet emits 0.2 carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) per passenger mile traveled, achieving one point. We could achieve 2 points by having no CO 2 e per passenger mile traveled (carbon neutral fleet). • Another credit is given for having a specified percentage of the institution's faculty, staff, and students getting to and from campus by a means other than single occupancy vehicle for the majority of their daily trips. Alternatives to singleoccupancy vehicle transportation include walking, bicycling, van or carpooling, taking public transportation, or riding a 33
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