Is There a Problem With Parking at Florida State?

Jeremy HanesDavid Hyer

Mary JeanesMarlene Marte

What we will cover…

Opinions from the source:◦What we have heard from the students

The Facts:◦What we have observed

The Other Side:◦Equal representation of the argument

Opinions from the SourceWhat the students are saying

Expansion of Parking?89% - Yes

Need more spots! (92%) Depends on where they would be (77%) Only if they don’t raise tuition & fees (39%)

11% -- No 74% = they’ll only raise tuition & fees 50% = parking isn’t that bad..

Why?

Sum up parking at Florida State with one word.

Satisfactory – 12% Unsatisfactory – 88%! Parking isn’t all

that hard.. I’ve never had a

problem

Too Hard!Too far awayToo inconvenient

The Fact of the MatterWhat we have directly observed

Student Parking Diagram

Average Amount of Open Spots in the Park

Ave. Garage Open SpotsTaken Spots

Average Amount of Open Spots in the Woodward GarageOpen

SpotsTaken Spots

Average Amount of Open Spots in the UCB

Lot Open SpotsTaken Spots

A Quick Look:Average

Open Spots

Mean, Median, Mode - Parking

Open SpotsPark Ave. Garage Woodward Garage UCB Lot

Mean 3.4/856 spotsor .39 %

14.2/973 spotsor 1.5 %

63.4/583 spotsor 10.9 %

Median 2 9 49

Mode 0 0 12, 21, 39 & 95

Avg Spaces VS Avg Seekers

08:00 A.M. 09:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:00 P.M. 01:00 P.M. 02:00 P.M. 03:00 P.M.0

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AVG SpacesAVG Seekers

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Fishbone Diagram

The Other SideThere are two sides to every argument

Of the 50 students interviewed…

66% are rarely or never late to class.

40% said that parking isn’t that bad and it could be worse.

Take about 0-20 minutes to find

parking.

Take 0-10 minutes to walk to class from their parking spot

51% of students interviewed

35% interviewed

22% of the students interviewed said that Parking at Florida State is relatively easy to find, as long

as you know where to park.

58% of these students Did not have any suggestions on improving parking at

FSU.

In Conclusion.

Opinions ObservationsOpposing argument

There IS a problem with parking at Florida State

But at least we don’t have problems with Transformers.