Children's Hospital Project to be Featured at IPI Conference

01/18/2010

The International Parking Institute (IPI) selected Trans Associates' (TA) Ms. Cynthia Jampole, P.E. to present the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC parking and transportation planning services project at their annual convention May 10-13, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV, which attracts thousands of attendees from around the world.

In May, 2009 Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, long located in the Oakland section of the City of Pittsburgh, relocated to the Lawrenceville neighborhood of the City.  The new 10-acre campus included 1.5 million square feet of space, a 296 bed, state-of-the-art pediatric hospital, a research center, a faculty pavilion, administrative office building and three on-site parking garages containing about 1,450 parking spaces.  These facilities were knit into a dense urban neighborhood.

 In addition to a parking supply and demand analysis,  TA followed up with development of conceptual roadway improvements, a plan for modified on-street metered parking and loading zones for the adjacent business district, an extensive program of community meetings, and design of traffic signals and pedestrian crossing amenities. There followed a study of an off-site employee shuttle lot, development of a parking operations plan, design of traffic signals, design of street reconstruction for access to the shuttle lot, coordination with the adjacent railroad, extensive community coordination, and development of a new shuttle system to serve the lot. 

The final phase of work involved the development of a door-to-door logistics plan for movement of all hospital patients, family members and staff.  TA coordinated extensively with the hospital's clinical logistics coordinator to develop a moving day handbook, travel routes, plans for ambulance movement for all patients, determination of needs for police control of intersections and signals, plans for a family shuttle, directions and maps for employee and visitor parking and approach routes.  

In addition to the upcoming IPI presentation, the project received a 2009 Project of the Year Honorable Mention award from the Mid-Atlantic Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (MASITE).  We congratulate Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and Ms. Jampole on a successful project!