Right now, the peak campus population is in Autumn Quarter. If the university wants to minimize the transportation impact of growth, it might utilize the entire calendar year better for scheduling classesincluding, and especially, summer. A growing number of individuals are traveling to off-campus sites where the UW has officesprincipally in Northgate, downtown, Fremont and south Lake Union. These people's trips to campus now comprise about 5 percent of total trips here, and their number is growing. Also, at several of the remote locations, workers can avail themselves of free parking, which provides no incentives for non-SOV commuting.
Telecommuting is an option that needs to be explored more fully.
The UW is developing a new policy that will empower deans and vice presidents to allow telecommuting, by permitting it when it also supports the university's operations in a manner as complete as they are being supported now. Student employment presents possibilities for reducing the number of SOVs coming to campus. Currently, about 70 percent of undergraduate students who work have jobs off campus. Also, the university could investigate a car-sharing program, in which a private entity would own cars that would be permitted to park on campus and be shared among students whose needs are occasional. Occasional visitors to campus, and patients at UW Medical Center, may be included in the transit program.