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Access Downtown Charlottesville, Virginia

Bringing People Downtown in an efficient and coordinated manner Prepared by CPC Inc.

3 Ways to Get Downtown

• Human Power

– Walking or Biking

• Public Vehicle

– CAT, Free Trolley or Taxi Cab

• Private Vehicle

– Parking on street or off street

Human Power

• City Council actively promotes walkability and

cycling

• The community has the highest benefits when

you walk or bike downtown

• Walking and Biking are free

Public and For-Hire Vehicles

• City Council actively promotes mass transit
• ptions and Charlottesville has efficient taxicab

service.

• Use of public and for-hire vehicles has the second

highest community benefit through the reduction

• f congestion, environmental impact, parking

impact, reduction of drunk driving

• The Trolley is Free, the Bus is $20 per month, Taxi

Service is $2.40 per mile

Private Vehicles

• City Council actively promotes private vehicles through the

free parking system on street

• CPC actively promotes private vehicles through parking

validation in the garages

• Use of private vehicles provides the least benefit for the

community due to issues including congestion, pollution, parking congestion and drunk driving.

• Parking On Street is Free, Parking Off Street is $2.50 Per

hour without a validation

Lack of Coordination

• The promotion of Free Parking On Street is at
• dds with the promotion of Walking, Cycling,

Mass Transit.

• The most convenient individual option is to drive

and park on street, it also has the cheapest cost to the individual in terms of time and money.

• Parking on the street has the highest cost for the

community

Consequences of Present System

• The perceived lack of parking is a major deterrent to visitors coming

downtown

• The perception of a lack of parking is created by employees utilizing

nearly all the street spots on a daily basis

• Employers cannot afford to pay for employee parking off street

because their potential customers often go elsewhere due to lack of parking

• Downtown growth will be restricted unless a balanced parking and

transit system is developed that changes the perception of a lack of parking while providing affordable employee parking and transit

• ptions

The Access Downtown Solution

• CPC has prepared detailed plans to develop an

integrated management solution that incorporates on street parking, off street parking, mass transit and taxicab options into a single platform for visitors and employees.

• CPC has prepared plans with Willow Tree Apps for

the development of a smart phone app to provide the public with real time on/off street parking information, CAT information, Taxi cab information and merchant validation options.

The Access Downtown Solution (Cont)

• Merchant Validation for visitors would be

extended to include on and off street parking, CAT and Taxicab service.

• Employees/Employers that need free parking

will be provided with Transit or Park and Ride

• ptions at subsidized rates.

Off Street Parking Solution

• CPC has developed plans for a new custom parking

package with Flow Thru Technologies Inc.

• The new system would be paperless.
• Upon entering the garage every vehicle would have its

license plate automatically scanned.

• Monthly parkers or registered transient parkers would

have the gate open at entrance or exit automatically upon license plate recognition.

Off Street Parking Solution (Cont)

• Non registered users would enter any 10 digit number at

the gate to gain entry

• That 10 digit number would associate with that license

plate for that visit only

• Upon leaving a visitor would pay on foot at a kiosk in the

garage utilizing their 10 digit number

• After paying on foot, they drive to the exit where their

license plate is automatically recognized along with payment and the gate automatically opens

Advantages for Off Street Parking

• A transient parker can register a form of

payment with a license plate and enter/exit automatically

• Reduce congestion in the Water St Garage.
• Eliminate Paper tickets while providing

receipts of payment.

On Street Parking Solution

• 800 free spaces identified in 2008 parking study would

become paid parking from 8am to 9pm Monday through Saturday

• Inner core of 400 spaces would be limited to 4 hours per
• vehicle. Hour 1-2 would be $1 per hour. Hours 3-4 would

be prohibitive vs. cost of garage.

• Outer 400 spaces would be $1 per hour with a time limit of

8 hours

• Prices would be adjusted periodically to maintain 85%
• ccupancy

On Street Parking Solution (Cont)

• CPC has partnered with Digital Payment Technologies

to integrate their Luke II Kiosk into our Access Downtown Management System.

• 800 spaces will need 60 kiosks.
• Enforcement will be by license plate
• The System is paperless and vehicles can relocate

within a zone as enforcement is tied to the license plate and not an individual spot

Public Vehicles

• CPC and CAT are preparing plans to provide

merchant validation options for CAT buses.

• The free trolley line will have service extended

until 2am. At present the trolley stops service at 11:30pm.

• Yellow Cab has the technology to connect to the

Access Downtown validation system

Merchant Validation

• Every Merchant or employer downtown will have

a company portal into the Access Downtown Management System.

• A customer will give their 10 digit number to the

validation participant.

• The Merchant will enter the 10 digit customer

number into their portal along with how much and what type of validation they are providing.

Merchant Validation (Cont)

• Merchants will have the option to provide

validation for on street, off street, CAT or taxicabs.

• Upon returning to the garage or on street kiosk,

entering a bus or at the end of taxicab ride the customer will re-enter their 10 digit number and the system will discount their cost by the validation amount and bill the merchant.

Employee Parking Solution

• Access Downtown will provide alternative

subsidized employee parking and transit

• ptions to replace the loss of on street free

parking

• A portion of the on street parking kiosk

revenues will be utilized to provide the employee subsidies.

Park and Ride

• CPC has confirmed that capacity for employee

parking exists at the Ix building, West Main St private lots, additional lots along the trolley line. Rides would be provided by the free trolley.

• Ix has the capacity for 100 vehicles. The initial

park and ride cost would be $25 per month.

• CAT is capable of rerouting the free trolley line to

provide service to the Ix building.

Park and Ride (Cont)

• If Ix became full, the price at Ix would rise and the $25

location would shift to two private lots near the bridge on West Main St.

• The West Main lots are on the free trolley line and have

approximately 150 spaces available.

• If the West Main lots became full, the price would rise at Ix

and at the West Main Lots.

• The $25 lot would shift to additional lots along the free

trolley line which include more than 500 spaces.

Park and Ride (Cont)

• Additional capacity is potentially available at

Fashion Square or a similar location on 29N.

• Rides from 29N would be provided by CAT and

would cost $25 per month.

• The Park and Ride System would be part of the

integrated Access Downtown management system, enabling participants to receive one emergency pickup for free from Yellow Cab on an annual basis to retrieve their cars.

Mass Transit Options

• A portion of the meter revenues would be

utilized to provide a CAT pass for downtown employees at the subsidized rate of $10 per month.

• This would be a discount from the present

rate of $20 per month

Access Downtown App

• CPC is working with Willow Tree Apps located on

the Downtown Mall to provide an Access Downtown smart phone app.

• The App would provide an exact real time

number of parking spaces in both garages.

• The App would provide an estimate in real time
• f on street parking availability and location

Access Downtown App (Cont)

• App would utilize smart phone GPS data to

highlight the closest and next available mass transit options or order a taxicab.

• App would provide validation options in real time

for all modes of transportation and parking

• App would enable customers to register their

license plates, extend their parking, pay their bill, redeem validations

Management Structure

• CPC and the City would form a Parking Board to manage

policy including pricing for on and off street parking

• Parking Board would also oversee alternative employee

parking and transit options

• CPC would be the managing agent for on and off street

parking including enforcement.

• Parking Board would commit to finding long term solutions

to insure affordable parking is always available downtown.

On-Street Parking Revenues

• A portion of the meter revenues would go to

the Parking Board to pay for the expansion of the free trolley, park and ride options, along with subsidizing CAT passes for downtown employees.

• The remainder of the meter revenues would

go to the proposed Business Improvement District.

Future Possibilities

• UVA is developing a Bike Share program. Bike

Share could be expanded to include downtown and participate in merchant validation

• Access Downtown could be used to manage a

resident parking program

• Access Downtown’s parking management and

validation system could be extended into other neighborhoods with parking and access problems

Privacy Policy

• Based on best practices for private and public
• parking. Developed by UVA Professor Andrew

Mondschein

• Users can choose be registered or be guests

for one-time transactions.

• Gust payment and vehicle information will be

deleted after payment is processed

Finance

• CPC is developing final costs and is able to provide all

development funds. Tentative costs including all hardware and software are estimated at $2.5 Million.

• The development cost for Access Downtown amounts

to approximately $1,000 per space managed.

• The cost of construction for new garage parking is

approximately $30,000 per space plus the cost of land.