THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY TRANSPORT STRATEGY

The University of Canterbury has been monitoring the travel of staff and students to and from the University since 1962, in an effort to predict parking demand at its Ilam campus. The surveys have shown a steadily increasing demand for car parking, and while there was initially ample space for on-site car parking, the growth in staff and student numbers, along with the increase in car availability and use, has resulted in increasing difficulty in providing the predicted parking demand. In 1999 the University established a Transport Working Group to develop a transport strategy to avert the need to provide even more parking. The strategy, which was adopted in December 2002, involves instituting charges for car parking and using the revenue to encourage walking, cycling, car-pooling and bus use. This paper describes the transport strategy and its development, including the results of the 2000 travel survey, which involved asking staff and students what travel mode they chose, why they chose it, and why alternative modes were not used. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E210413.