Issue Briefs: Parking: Campus Parking Operations
Campuses typically apportion their parking spaces among metered, residential, faculty and staff, and student/general parking. Each category of parking has a different profile:
- Faculty and staff lots tend to be occupied from 7 am to 6 pm and have little turnover during the day
- Residential lots tend to be occupied continuously during weekdays
- Student/general lots have high turnover throughout the day as students come to campus for their classes
Campuses attempt to achieve the most service they can from their
parking spaces by selling parking permits for each type of parking
based on historical usage patterns and daily turnover rates. Typically
they sell between 1.2 and 2.0 permits for each space in a faculty/staff
lot and between 2.0 and 3.0 permits for student/general lots/structures.
Operating expenses for campus parking services include salaries
(administration and enforcement), utilities (lighting), and maintenance
(painting, repairs, supplies, materials). Executive
Order 753, issued in July 2000, deals with the allocation of
direct and indirect costs to auxiliary enterprises, including parking.
EO 753 reinforces
system policy that auxiliary enterprises are charged for both “direct
costs plus allocable portions of indirect costs associated with
facilities, goods and services provided by the University funded
from the General Fund.”