The University of British Columbia (UBC) campus, with 40,000 students, isthe second largest transit trip destination in Greater Vancouver. The current UBC transit loop has been in place for 20 years and, despite several expansions, is at capacity for both vehicles and passengers. In order to meet future service demands, the physical dimensions of the facility would have to be expanded to three times the existing size. Such an expansion isnot desirable due to both environmental considerations and UBC's own overall development vision in which a below-grade transit facility is proposed. The resultant constrained terminal footprint proposes a number of operational challenges for both bus and passenger movements. The success of the proposed transit terminal is dependent on not just one terminal subsystem,nor the sum of those subsystems, but the integration of all subsystems using ITS components.
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