Company mobility plan for Geneva’s University Hospitals (HUG)

HUG is Switzerland’s first university hospital, with 8 sites, 1’800 beds, more than 900.000 yearly ambulatory interventions and more than 10.300 employees (figures: HUG 2013).

In 2005, the Hospital has started a work on a company mobility plan in order to manage efficiently the accesses by the different modes for the employees, patients and visitors, and face the parking spaces reduction required in order to adapt to the current regulation. The mandate has been given to Citec Ingénieurs Conseils, a Geneva-based transportation consultant company, with the objective to propose solutions adapted to the specific functioning, corresponding to the needed modal split improvement and deliver a set of clear rules for the parking spaces attribution. All the elements were to be refined with the dedicated work group and approved by the Hospital’s authorities.

Tamara Bozovic worked on this mandate as a junior engineer. Her main tasks were:

• Achievement of a diagnosis of the actual functioning (employees / patients and visitors flows, used modes, origins/destinations, use of the private parking lots and the public spaces, …)
• Estimation of the modal shift potentials, considering the origins/destinations and the compatibility of travels with the different existing offers
• Proposal of adapted principles for the attribution of the parking places (taking into account the incompatibility of movements with the public transports or the specific needs)
• Proposal of adapted solutions for the improvement of the use of the soft modes and the public transports, in particular: analysis of the adaptation possibilities of the public transport offer and the hospital’s intern shuttle service.

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