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Introduction

Washington State University is an extremely popular Pac-12 college

With recent increase in enrollment, there has become an issue with the amount of parking on site for students.

With the current parking, the rates are also extremely high for students to afford.

. Since 2015 the parking trend has kept growing at more than 7% per year (news.wsu) and it is supposed to increase again within the 2020-2021 school year.

Transportation services in the institution depend on funds generated from parking permit fees and fines to conduct maintenance and expansion since no vote head is allocated to such expenditure under tuition (Chan, Chau, & Chan, 2012). Markedly, an increase in the parking permit rates in the institution would strain the finances of students .

The parking crisis would be resolved through the development of practical recommendations from the task forces and by securing the full backing of the institution’s administration.

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Methods

WSU Parking and Transportation Taskforce would develop practical recommendations that would solve the parking problem and enhance the satisfaction of students. The task force engaged willing students to provide their views on the parking problems in the institution and ways through which the setbacks could be handled.

To perform this task effectively we would perform 5 different tasks

1. Establish our target audience and approach

This would include students and teachers using WSU parking

2. Create an infographic ideas

3. Look at financially reasonable and physically reasonable areas to create new parking at WSU

4. Interview students to research their opiniions

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Results

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Task 1

According to the Daily Evergreen, a proposed parking rate increase for the Washington State University’s Transportation Service will take effect on July 1 of 2020. This will result in fees ranging between 20 cents to $2.49 more for the annual passes and between 4 and 32 cents more for daily passes. This doesn’t seem much at first but over the long run, the daily passes will add up and produce a tremendous price. The proposed change came from the transportation task force that considered the price increases can help repair and maintain the 4 parking garages on the campus. The WSU budget plans suggests that there will be a total of $2.6 million in expenses such as maintenance, repairs, and replacements of parking facilities and improved garage parking lots. Since the Transportation Service at WSU doesn’t receive federal or state aid, it is understandable they would increase the rates to keep up with the maintenance. The daily parking permit has a price anywhere between $2.05 to $14.31 depending on the zones. For the annual parking permits. The annual parking permits range anywhere from $125 to $900. 

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Task 2

Creating infographic fliers and visuals can help in a number of ways, for this part of our project we used our designated audience and approach to come up with different ideas for infographics. We can use things such as poles, surveys, and so on to see what kind of infographics would draw students and teachers to give their opinion virtually on this topic. Using a virtual stance would help us broaden our demographic with students who gave their opinion.

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Task 3

Our next task after we looked at the financial decisions that WSU Transportation Services have made and the reasons behind them, we decided to assess the Pullman campus for unused/underused areas of land. The first set of land that is being underused is the Rogers-Orton soccer fields. That field is designed for recreational use but not a lot of events are taken place on the field according to an intramural soccer referee “Ryan Haisch”. He said that the field is never used because the field has poor quality grass and the field lines aren’t maintained properly. Since WSU has high quality soccer fields across the street, that is where the intramural games take place. Another area of land that is unused is the area around the baseball field. Referencing to the map, the blue areas are where the parking is. Around the Bailey-Brayton Field, there is a lot of space that can be used for parking. These two massive areas of land could host 500+ parking spots which can benefit the student body and the university as well. The parking rates would decline and more students would be more inclined to purchase a parking

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Task 4

For this task we asked 3 different students 5 different questions. Question 1: How do you feel about driving to class everyday and parking on campus?

Question 2: What are your thoughts on the parking permit rates?

Question 3: Do the parking permit rates offered by the university affect your financials?

Question 4: What do you think the university can do to improve your parking experience?

Question 5: Do you believe they should increase more parking spaces for their students?

After we asked the questions for each individual, they all gave similar responses. For the first question they all felt like driving to class everyday was a hassle at times. They would arrive late because the spots fill up and it’s difficult to find a spot right before class starts. For the second question, they all had negative thoughts on the parking rates because they believe the permits should be free because tuition is already expensive. For the third question, they all mentioned how the permit rates are negatively affecting their financials because they would have to sacrifice a little bit of money for food and personal expenditures to put into the cost of the parking permit. The fourth question, they all answered that they should lower the price of the permits or make it free. For the fifth question, they all like the idea of the university creating more parking spaces because it would be easier to find a spot and not be as stressed.

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