Transportation Strategic Plan
Overview
Harvard is undertaking development of substantial new academic facilities during the next few years. These plans are the culmination of efforts over the past decade to increase academic resources in nearly every school.
To maintain excellence in teaching and research, the University strives to create an environment that is dynamic and highly adaptive. In its work, the University must not only address new areas of inquiry, but also be responsive to the global teaching and research environment. These requirements provide impetus for hiring faculty and staff, and for undertaking capital projects that support teaching and research initiatives.
As Harvard's schools grow over the next decade, much of the new construction will take place on campus land that is presently used for parking. This increased development poses some difficult and competing challenges for transportation and parking. Unfortunately, Harvard does not have enough parking now to meet the needs of our faculty and staff. In short, parking has become a key planning element in support of the overall academic development programs of the schools.
For some time we have been working on solutions to these challenges. Our planning process has been enhanced through extensive discussions and consultation with many members of the Harvard community, including the Faculty Council, Deans, faculty members with economic and transportation systems expertise, and more than 20 discussion groups across the campus. This ongoing dialogue has been enormously helpful in creating a plan that will meet these objectives.
In brief, the current plans are to build several new underground garages that will replace existing parking spaces lost to new academic and research buildings. To manage this additional growth, we are expanding University transportation services and increasing efforts to make public transportation services more convenient and less expensive.
The following transcripts and links highlight some of the initiatives completed to date by the Transportation Working Group to address the growth issues while soliciting help and support from the entire Harvard community.
Transportation Planning Communication to FAS Faculty
The Transportation Planning communication was prepared by Sally Zeckhauser, Vice President for Administration and Thomas Vautin, Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental Services to update faculty on the transportation strategic plan initiative. Learn More »
