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Shifting Gears : Stadium Road Neighbourhood as a Leader in Connectivity

University of British Columbia. School of Community and Regional Planning; University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

The University of British Columbia is a leading institution in creating a place where students, faculty, and staff can live, work, play, learn, and interact. With their vision of creating a sustainable campus that promotes both community and environmental health, transportation is one of the key elements that needs to be addressed to meet their listed targets and goals. UBC is a proven regional trendsetter in sustainable transportation, which makes the university responsible for moving the agenda forward. As a result, the Shifting Gears provides a prime opportunity to plan a neighbourhood that supports the university’s existing values through a transportation and connectivity lens. Transportation and connectivity in this project entails fostering safe, efficient, and innovative connections that promote active and public modes of transportation to, from, and within the Stadium Road Neighbourhood. As a neighbourhood that is in its initial planning stages, this project was approached in a way to present comprehensive recommendations that respond to the campus’ existing conditions and needs. Therefore, this project includes a thorough review of existing campus policies and existing transportation conditions that led to the creation of a needs assessment to respond to the existing gaps in campus transportation. Given the scope of the project, these needs were addressed in four main focus areas near or within the site where interventions for transportation and connectivity can have the biggest impact. These areas include East Mall, West 16th, parking for the site, and neighbourhood movement design. Several different interventions were evaluated based on the project objectives, and the best performing intervention for each focus area was chosen and presented as our final recommendation. These recommendations support the current transportation values and behaviours of the potential SRN users while also promoting and accommodating a future where innovative and sustainable transportation technologies and designs become the norm at UBC. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

Report

eng

2018-11-22

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/67852

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/