Results/Benefits (or Projected Results/Benefits):

Title: Student Parking at Olin B. King Tech Hall-UAH Campus

Problem Description: The current parking at Tech Hall is limited to 490 standard parking spaces and 5 motorcycle-only parking spaces for faculty, staff, and students which also includes 10 handicap parking spaces and 10 visitor parking spaces. The lack of available parking during peak hours between 9 am and 5 pm is an issue that causes students to be tardy or absent from lectures and labs that are required for their education. For instance, driving to Tech Hall from the Materials Science Building on the main campus takes an average of 10 minutes which leaves 5 minutes to find a parking place at Tech Hall and get inside to the classroom. The amount of traffic is cumbersome and limited parking becomes an issue when students only have 15 minutes to get from one class to another. Considering the fact that UAH has the largest freshman class this year at 7866 students, the parking issue will soon become worse as more students elect to drive to class due to the weather or other personal reason.

Current Situation:Blue rectangles indicate the current parking availability for faculty, staff, and students which is 490 total parkingspots.

Analysis:

Recommendations/Countermeasures: -Parking garage at Tech Hall-Offer overflow parking nearby-Use existing property to redesign Olin B. King Tech Hall with attached parking garage-Offer transit service which operates at nominal times

Follow-up: A UAH ID will be required to enter and exit the parking garage (this will provide a date/time stamp for data collection). If an ID is swiped in then out within 15 min or less of each other, that data will be collected and stored in a separate metric. All the data would be used to monitor parking availability based on the number of cars that enter and exit as well as the length of time in the parking garage. These metrics will be used to evaluate the total utilization of parking spaces available.

Student absenteeism or tardiness caused from a lack of parking availability is anticipated to decrease by 90%. Traffic back-up may become an issue for those entering or leaving the system between class times. This will potentially affect tardiness.

Goal: The goal is for students to find parking in a timely manner so absenteeism and tardiness caused by parking issues is reduced by 90%. The goal is to have a ratio of incoming vehicles to outgoing vehicles equal 0.90.

Name(s): Janelle Williams

Students are late/absent from required lectures

Inability to find a parking spot in

order to be in class on time or at all

Too many incoming vehicles compared to outgoing vehicles

Only a fixed amount of parking is

available

Parking availability is for students,

faculty, and staff at Tech Hall.

Students must walk or bike to school in

poor weather

Students oversleep

Students choose not to go to lecture for other reasons

This is a projected average student per lecture statistic. Creating 560 additional parking spaces for faculty, staff, and students will help achieve the goal of 90% utilization of parking spaces, where the additional 10% remain empty for incoming traffic which arrives before a portion of the other spaces are available while also capturing a 80% decrease in tardiness and absenteeism.

Proj

ectio

ns

4 Assumptions listed as: (1) undergraduate lecture has an average of 33 students; (2) 30% are tardy at any given time (small sample collection); (3) 15% are absent at any given time (nytimes); (4) 80% tardiness/ absenteeism is due to parking availability. Where n = 33 for 5 samples

Additional 560 parking spaces

ACTPLA

NCHECK

Results/Benefits (or Projected Results/Benefits): ---What benefits were (or will be) achieved by implementing the countermeasures?-- Represent with sample pictures, tables, cost analysis data, or whatever is appropriate for the specific project

DOTitle: What are you talking about?

Problem Description: What is the background of the problem and the business context of the problem? Make sure to quantify your problem statement!

Current Situation: Where do we stand currently?Describe the current state using diagrams, data, etc

Analysis: -What key waste and problems exists in the current situation?-What are the root causes of the problems and waste?-What requirements, constraints, and alternatives need to be considered?

Recommendations/Countermeasaures: -What are your proposed countermeasures to address the problems and wastes discussed in the analysis section?

Follow-up: -What metrics and systems will we put in place to know that the implemented actions have the desired impact? -What remaining issues can be anticipated?Goal: What specific change do we wish to

accomplish with this project? Make sure your goal ties directly back to your problem statement.

Name(s):