Planning & Operational Principles
Planning & Operational Principles
Parking and Transportation Committee
Dartmouth College
20-Apr-06
Planning
- Reinforce the pedestrian character of the campus
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- Facilitate walking, bicycling, use of public transportation
- Strengthen and improve the network of pedestrian walks and bike lanes
- Preserve and enhance the campus landscape
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- Reinforce open space through the placement and design of landscaping, parking lots, roadways and walks
- Promote pedestrian and bicyclist safety
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- Delineate well-lit roadway crosswalks with clear sightlines
- Minimize the potential for pedestrian/vehicular conflict at intersections and along roadways
- Provide parking locations appropriate to the type of use
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- Proximate lots – visitors (may need to expand; approximately 50-70 vehicles per day take a green permit space), disabled, faculty, staff
- Peripheral lots – faculty, staff, service vehicles, construction workers, Hanover Inn patrons
- Satellite lots – faculty, staff, students, special event
- The location and assignment of parking should respond to the different needs of commuters and visitors to Dartmouth.
- Maximize support of the College mission (i.e. education, research) through the allocation and location of parking
- Minimize traffic congestion within the central Town of Hanover through the geographic placement of satellite lots along the major faculty and staff commuter routes.
Operational
- Improve the capacity, convenience and timeliness of shuttle bus service between the Hanover campus, DHMC, Centerra, perimeter lots and satellite lots.
- Tailor permitted parking lot locations and transit operations to the home origins and entry routes of faculty and staff.
- Market and effectively communicate regional and inter-campus transportation alternatives.
- Provide financial incentives to decrease the demand for Proximate zone parking spaces.
- Implement physical restrictions (e.g. gates, card-access) to limit use of high-demand parking lots.
