Interactive Campus Facillity Mapping: Exemplification of Deployment In Bicycle-Parking Site Selection and in Service of Bike Parking

  • Ms Courtney Leigh, Monash University, Australia
  • Ass Proff James Peterson, Monash University, Australia
  • Dr Shobhit Chandra, Centre for GIS, Australia
  • The road use generated by the journey-to-work study at Australian universities can be a significant generator of road-use to campuses in disadvantaged locations with regard to access to public transport. Many of these campus’s users are from bike-riding cohorts of the population, hence some interest attaches to provision of bicycle paths, not only for recreation but for week-day use as well. Con-current improvement in provision of bicycle-parking facilities is therefore likely to be appreciated. Such action is in conformity with the recent inclusion of the spirit and purpose of the Talloiers Convention into Monash university policy. Bringing such sustainability policy to practice involves site selection for bike parking facilities. We report here on the deployment of campus asset inventory in building an interactive campus bicycle-parking map. Given the nature of university traffic flow (based on class schedules rather than business hours), the many directions from which students and staff travel to campus, the campus size and teaching venue distribution, not to mention the challenge of inserting bicycle parking facilities among buildings and campus plans that date from before cycling became popular enough to be touted as a sustainable transport option, the mapping and user-interfacing tasks are surely less than trivial. We exemplify this statement with the intention of outlining a generic model for facility retrofit that can be used on other university campuses.