RENOVATING THE HOPKINS PARKING STRUCTURE

GOAL • The team goal is to renovate the Hopkins parking structure

• Promote an economical and efficient solution to control for

• Flow of traffic

• Minimize parking space looking time

• Minimize wait time in finding a parking space

• Ultimately, to inform the driver of the current “status” in regards to available spaces in the parking garage

QUESTIONS• What strategies do people use to find a parking

spot?

• How can we optimally combine technology and the current strategies that people use in their search for parking?

PROBLEMS IN FINDING PARKING • Waste $$, time, gas and mileage

• Causes students/staff to be late for class/work.

• Causes traffic in the lots

• Causes road rage (true story)

• Causes excess pollution

THE POINT

• The current structure of the parking system is both inefficient and fails to meet the needs of the representative users at UCSD.

1) Use guidelines we have collaboratively decided upon to determine which individuals are the best interview candidates for this project

• Aim is to collect 10 – 15 interviews

2) Execute contextual inquiry and interview drivers who park at Hopkins (Undergraduates, Graduates, Faculty, and Staff)

3) Use data collected to create an affinity board highlighting the needs of the users (and brainstorming possible solutions)

OUR PLAN IN REMEDYING THE PROBLEM

ISSUES WE STILL NEED TO ADDRESS • Gathering the actual data to formulate a concrete plan

to implement a possible solution

• Surveys (to select best interviewee), Interviews (to pinpoint needs of users), Online resources & Parking Database (to gain additional information)

• As a group we still need to assign responsibilities to each member

• Put together our affinity diagram

WHAT WE’VE DONE SO FAR • Investigated potential solutions:

• information board• pricing, the logistics of how it is set up, one example:

http://technologyinterface.nmsu.edu/Fall09/Fall09/012.pdf

• Claims: this system helped user reduce the wasting time of search parking lot and also improve the parking lot utilization.

• Looked at UCSD Parking database http://parking.ucsd.edu/survey/surv.html

• Identified what are the ideal requirements that constitutes an ideal potential interviewee

Have Information Available to Students

HAVING INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS

Table 1 UCSD Parking Space Occupancy Levels, Winter 2011: Overall

Parking Parking Average Empty Parking Spaces At Peak

Space Spaces 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 Empty Occupied %

am am am am pm pm pm pm pm pm Spaces Spaces Occupied

University A 2344 1661 1140 670 446 384 376 383 446 584 673 376 1968 84%

of B 5042 2321 1090 477 300 285 322 346 579 1224 2304 285 4757 94%

California, S 4586 2240 1736 1338 1045 927 865 838 915 1132 1523 838 3748 82%

San Diego Visitor 1418 899 574 301 174 197 189 159 214 361 566 159 1259 89%

Reserved 359 280 226 195 178 183 185 181 175 184 216 175 184 51%

Allocated 1144 903 722 536 424 389 411 409 467 539 695 389 755 66%

Accessible 471 277 192 129 101 112 109 108 134 193 270 101 370 79%

UC Vehicle 230 82 103 102 102 98 90 97 92 78 71 71 159 69%

Service Yard 135 75 64 56 52 56 55 59 60 62 69 52 83 61%

Loading 130 95 80 74 59 57 64 57 59 67 71 57 73 56%

Total 15859 8833 5927 3878 2881 2688 2666 2637 3141 4424 6458 2637 13222 83%

• Used data trends with the spots available online to determine ratio of interviewee selection

• The result

At Peak Hours 9:00 - 4:00 for S spotsEmpty Occupied %Spaces Spaces Occupied

11 69 86% A25 471 95% B0 678 100% S

10 83 89% V

CRITERIA FOR INTERVIEW CANDIDATE • UCSD Affiliate

• Commutes to school consistently either MWF, Tu/Th.

• Parks on main campus (Hopkins, Gilman, Pangea)

• Specifically, actively searches for parking at Hopkins

1. Visitor (2)

2. Faculty (2)

3. Staff (3)

4. Student (6)

1. Before parking charges beginning (1)

2. Arrives After 4:30 (1)

This is a hypothetical solution that we have created to begin the process of reforming the parking system at UCSD – specifically for the centrally-located Hopkins Parking Structure.

This solution is subject to change and adjustment, depending upon our evaluation and assessment of its adequacy in maximizing parking efficiency.

DIGITAL INFORMATION BOARD

Ideally the digital board will include the following data:•Number of spaces available •Which floor those spaces are in •The type of space A, B, S, V

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

THANK YOU !