Reopening Universities

Universities face unique challenges as they reopen after a long, challenging year. Join parking managers from top universities as we interview them about changes to university structure and the new parking environment for the year ahead. If you’re involved in university parking, you don’t want to miss this one!

Transcript

Summary: Universities face unique challenges as they reopen after a long, challenging year. Join parking managers from top universities as we interview them about changes to university structure and the new parking environment for the year ahead. If you’re involved in university parking, you don’t want to miss this one!

Guest details:

Matt Penney, CAPP, Director of Parking and Transportation Services at Baylor University

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-penney-capp-1b9a36134/

Banlusack Phommachanh (Ban), Field Operations Supervisor, University of Delaware

https://www.linkedin.com/in/banlusack-phommachanh-a402a639/

Topics Discussed: 

• University communication

• University parking

• Remote learning

• Communication tools

• Parking budgets

• University parking spaces

• Monetizing parking

• University enrollment

• Parking availability

• Parking permits

• Parking registration

Notable Quotes:

“You learn how to maximize the revenue from parking generation on your campus”

“I have to maximize the use of the funds that we have to accommodate different priorities.”

“For so many years we’ve been [saying]…. Use mass transit, car share….ride your bike… and now what’s happened is people have one back to single occupancy vehicles.”

“We’ve got all those things that haven’t happened in a year and a half, and they’re coming this fall. And it’s gonna be a little challenging to get back…”

“You have….potentially twice as many people with the first time having parking privileges on campus.”

Parking citations were related to parking frustration, and so when there’s plenty of places to park, there’s no frustration to go somewhere else and park where you shouldn’t.”