Developing a comprehensive parking plan

Project Highlights

  • Designed a scalable parking plan that aligns with master planning priorities, including a mix of surface lots, temporary parking, and structured garages
  • Recommended to develop a system-wide, phased parking plan rather than one-off projects to accommodate enrollment growth sustainably and integrate financial and operational planning to ensure the parking enterprise remains self-sustaining

Client:
Florida Polytechnic University

Solutions:
Parking advisory

Our approach:

Brailsford & Dunlavey (B&D) established clear project goals, success criteria, guiding principles—including affordability, sustainability, and campus planning—and associated timelines to anchor the parking strategy. The team conducted a comprehensive analysis of the university’s parking operations, examining utilization patterns, permit data, revenue and expense summaries, violation and enforcement records, organizational structure, growth projections for students, faculty, staff, and residents, as well as event and visitor parking needs. To capture user perspectives, B&D developed and administered an online campus survey to assess preferences, satisfaction levels, and sensitivity to various parking options. These insights, combined with existing data and future growth assumptions, informed a robust, data-driven parking system model used to forecast demand. Additionally, B&D facilitated a risk tolerance workshop with stakeholders to evaluate financial structure options and assess the trade-offs between self-development and public-private partnership (P3) approaches.