1. Texas A&M Transportation Institute
(with TAMU Transportation Services, City of College
Station, City of Bryan, BCS Chamber of Commerce,
Convention and Visitors Bureau, Downtown Bryan
Association, TAMU Athletics, 12th Man Foundation,
TxDOT, Safety and Law Enforcement Agencies)

2. • Ability to handle crowds 25% to 30% larger
• Clear congested area in 2 hours
– Give “leavers” a route out of town; return to
normal peak operation as soon as possible
• Substantially reduce intense congestion
• Better and more timely information (and static
maps and lists if no bandwidth connection)
• Increase awareness of BCS dining, hotel and
entertainment options
What Have We
Accomplished?

3. • Traffic and bus routing changes
• Better signalization and contraflow lanes
• Safer pedestrian paths
• Shuttle bus routes
• Pre-pay parking; more efficient entry
• Smartphone app
Key Message: Know Your Options!
How Will That Happen?

4. What Happened?
2013 Alabama
Post-Game
Source: TTI Analysis of Freese
and Nichols Study Data

5. Source: TTI Analysis of Freese
and Nichols Study Data

6. Source: TTI Analysis of Freese
and Nichols Study Data

7. Source: TTI Analysis of Freese
and Nichols Study Data

8. Source: TTI Analysis of Freese
and Nichols Study Data

9. How Do We Know If It Worked?
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
0:00 0:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:30
% of System
Congested Aggieland Post Game Traffic
From 30 Minutes Prior to Game End (4:30 p.m. for Average Day)
Alabama
Auburn
SMU
Rice
Average
Day
End of
Game
Estimated
2014
(Revised)
Source: TTI Analysis of Freese and Nichols Study Data

10. How Do We Know If It Worked?
Source: TTI Analysis of Freese and Nichols Study Data
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
6:00 5:30 5:00 4:30 4:00 3:30 3:00 2:30 2:00 1:30 1:00 0:30 0:00 0:30
% of System
Congested Aggieland Pre-Game Traffic
Alabama
Auburn SMU
Kickoff
-- - - - -- - -- -
Average
Day
-
From 6 Hours Prior to Kickoff (4:30 p.m. for Average
Day)

11. What Will It Take For Buses?
• Fans riding – 8,000 from off-campus,
10,000+ from parking lots
– 35,000 capacity for 2014 (21K total rides Bama ’13)
– Auburn & Penn State ~ 20K to 25K rides total
• Relies on ‘mostly bus’ lanes and traffic control officers
to improve productivity
• Entire fleet will be used (buses are old, operations
will be difficult, but achievable)
• Getting bids for 10 charter buses to accommodate
more riders

12. What Will It Take For Parking?
• Use available campus parking spaces; Same
percentage will park off-campus as in 2013
• Need: All-weather parking – gravel for 2014 to 2018
– Three lots – approx $1.2 million (~2,700 spaces)
• Longer term – more…..
– Garages, Shuttle buses, Premier RV park

13. What Will It Take For
Pedestrians?
• Coordinated with parking and traffic flow system –
enhancing the gameday experience
• Need: Wellborn underpass improvements – improve
safety and make West Campus Garage an asset
– Pedestrian fence and path - $75,000
• Wayfinding signs in North End Zone area

14. What Will It Take For Streets?
Needs:
• Wellborn Rd - overhead signs? electronic system?
– 2014 cost sharing (TAMU-CS) for operations
• Signal system and real-time communication
improvements: CS - $3M; Bryan - $250,000+
• Connections to East Kyle Command Center
• Possible:
– 3rd southbound FM 2818 lane? ~$1 M
– Kimbrough pedestrian underpass? ~$1M to $2M

15. • Pedestrian Safety is Job #1
• Less Congestion is Job #1A
• “Know your options” – Websites, smartphone
app and mailings (plan ahead!)
• Return to normal operation soon
• Improve the game weekend experience
• Monitor and evolve during season
“We can’t be better if we do the same”
Summary

16. • Added lanes on Wellborn Rd – Also improves West
Campus Garage and South of Kyle traffic
• Improved signal timing
– Address bottleneck points
– More green time for outbound; Some turns not allowed
– Shorter cycles, phases & more efficient green time
• Use green time into Bryan
• Suggested paths to restaurants, hotels, etc.
• Blue – pedestrians; Green – cars;
Pink – off-peak traffic
Yellow – buses
Exit Corridor Plans

17. Plan ahead and we
can get you there!
12th Man parkers
enter from Bush
Visitors enter from
Stotzer and
University
Where are you going
after the game?
Are you tailgating?
Consider active
pedestrian areas

18. What Route
Will You Use To
Leave?
….And When?
Tailgate?
Tour? Celebrate?
Learn the New Elements
Discovery Drive
Kimbrough Blvd
Olsen Blvd
Wellborn Road

19. West Campus Exits and Bus Routes

20. West Campus Garage Area

21. 2014 Pedestrian Path Extension: Aerial View
Construction
Fencing
Remove front row of
parking on gamedays.

22. Wellborn Underpass at West
Campus Garage – Fence Design TBD

24. USE
ALL
FOUR
LANES

26. What Will
We See in
2014?
• Intersection
changes
• Signal timing
• Shuttle buses
• Warnings

27. For 2015
and
Beyond ….

28. Downtown Houston
• 150,000 workers
• 7 Freeways
Kyle Field Gameday
• 120,000+ attendees &
workers
• 2 Freeways
Downtown Dallas
• 145,000 workers
• 6 Freeways
Downtown Austin
• 125,000 workers
• 4 Freeways
Some
Perspective

29. • Real time traffic
• Real time parking
• Shuttle bus service
• Parking cost information, pay
through app
• Game weekend in BCS – Dining,
Activities, Hotels, Tickets
• App will evolve in 2015
• Connected to:
gameday.12thman.com
Bandwidth?