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FACILITY REQUIREMENTS TABLE 3-24 PUBLIC PARKING REQUIREMENTS Planning Activity Level 2016PAL 1PAL 2PAL 3 Short-Term Capacity237237237237 Required Spaces239253251282 Surplus / (Deficiency)(2)(16)(14)(45) Long-Term Capacity1146114611461146 1 1146127013591551 Required Spaces (Intial Estimate) 2 1256139214901701 Required Spaces (Alternate Estimate) Required Spaces (Best Estimate)1201133114251626 Surplus / (Deficiency)(55)(185)(279)(480) Source: Analysis by Curtis Transportation Consulting LLC, 2017 Notes: (1) Assumes 10 days per year use of overflow parking. (2) Assumes no overflow days or hours. 3.7.3.2Public Parking Requirements Assuming a Change in Parking Products Current use of the short-term lot at Eugene reflects two users groups: travelers, chiefly on business, with low-sensitivity to parking costs and a high priority for locational convenience, and those dropping off or picking up passengers (well-wishers and meter-greeters). The latter group park for an average of less than an hour, and in almost all cases are there less than two hours. The former group have nearly the same parking duration profile as long-term parkers, i.e., they are gone for several days on average. These longer duration users tend to depart on early morning flights, and thus they readily find empty short-term spaces nearest the terminal, and park in them. This leaves the true short-term (< two hours) parkers stuck with parking further away, or, on some days of the year, having to park in long-term, even though they are parking for such a short time. At Eugene, 63 percent of all parkers’ park for three hours or less; 61 percent park for two hours or less. To serve the greatest number of patrons with the highest level of service, it makes sense to provide spaces set aside for these very short-term duration parkers, referred to in the industry as true “hourly” parkers. Indeed, these parkers average duration is only 50 minutes. The following are two ways to improve customer service for this significant majority of parkers: »Create a parking system with an hourly lot and a long-term lot »Continue the system of short-term and long-term lots, but set aside the closest spaces in the short-term lot for exclusive use of those parking either two or three hours, or less. Such a system 14 is typically implemented with signing, and gently enforced until compliance is achieved. 14 One successful example of this program is in place at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which has provided such spaces in many garages since it opened in the 1970s. EUGENE AIRPORT MASTER PLAN 3-49