Mission Statement
To better accommodate pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and vehicle movements in a more user-friendly environment.
Overview
The Phase III study area includes the area bounded by University Avenue to the north, St. Mary’s Road to the south, Neil Street to the west, and Lincoln Avenue to the east.
What are the transportation needs in the University of Illinois campus area? How should travel be accommodated among pedestrians, bicycles, transit, and vehicles?
And which transportation projects should receive priority for future funding? In a collective effort with the Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS), the City of Champaign, the City of Urbana, the University of Illinois, and the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (CUMTD) have completed two phases of the Campus Area Transportation Study (CATS) to answer these questions.
Over the past several years much effort has been spent identifying transportation/circulation deficiencies and issues that exist within the campus area. Out of this process have come reports such as the Campus Safety Task Force Report and the Campus 2000 Report, which detail many of these deficiencies. While these studies have set forth concerns about specific problems, there was not previously a study which looked comprehensively at transportation issues in the Campus area, included all of the jurisdictions and agencies serving the campus area, or which recommended integrated solutions for all transportation modes.
The CATS represents the first transportation study that all agencies have participated together to address campus area transportation problems. It is the intent of the CATS to identify a comprehensive approach to address transportation issues within the study area. The study addresses the following issues:
- Pedestrian safety
- Community traffic flow needs
- University-oriented traffic
- Interaction among travel modes
- The role of non-auto travel modes including pedestrian, bus, bike and travel by persons with disabilities
- Truck traffic, freight deliveries and loading issues
- Traffic calming
- Interaction between parking supply and traffic circulation
- Identifying projects, priorities and cost estimates
Updates
Inside Illinois articles
Related FilesPhase I: Executive SummaryPhase I: Final ReportPhase II Final ReportPhase II Final Report: Executive SummaryPhase II Final Report: AppendixPhase II Final Report: ExhibitsPhase II Interim ReportPhase II Interim Report: Appendix APhase II Interim Report: Appendix BPhase II Interim Report Plan 4: Green StreetPhase II Interim Report Plan 5: Green StreetPhase II Interim Report Plan 7: John and DanielPhase II Interim Report Plan 9: Sixth StreetPhase II Interim Report Plan 10: Sixth and HealeyPhase II Interim Report Plan 11: Wright StreetCampus Circulation/Alternative Parking presentation
Campus Area Transportation Study Design Concepts
