Ray's presentation for Clackamas Community College on the panel about Transit Connections in Suburban and Mixed Land Use Environments at the Oregon Active Transportation Summit in Portland, OR on April 25, 2019.

1. Clackamas Community College’s
Transit Successes and Challenges
By: Ray Atkinson

2. • Overview
– 25,445 students (2017-18 Academic Year)
• 6,616 full-time equivalent
• 50% drove alone, 25% always take online courses, 10%
take transit, 5% carpool, 5% dropped off, less than 5%
walk or bike
– Three Campuses
• Milwaukie (Harmony), Oregon City and Wilsonville
– Transportation Systems Analyst and programs
funded by student fees and grants
• Transportation Systems Analyst supervises student
assistant
• Transportation Office is within Student Life and
Leadership Department

3. Transit Successes
• CCC Xpress Shuttle
• HB 2017 funding new shuttle projects
• New Transit Center on Oregon City campus

4. 0
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CCC Xpress Shuttle Ridership

5. Fall 2018 CCC Xpress Shuttle Survey

6. Fall 2018 CCC Xpress Shuttle Survey
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Evening Summer Weekend Other
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Add Service
Improve Shuttle

7. Fall 2018 CCC Xpress Shuttle Survey
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CCC CMC OCHS Other Doesn't
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School
Which School Do You Attend?

8. New Transit Center on
Oregon City Campus
Old Bus Turnaround New Transit Center

9. HB 2017 Funds New Transit Projects
• Oregon City Last-Mile Shuttle
– Route to be determined Campus

10. Transit Challenges
Campus

11. Milwaukie Transit Challenges
• Preparing for dockless bikeshare and
scootershare
– Harmony campus to Clackamas Middle College
and Clackamas Town Center
– Concerns
• Potential parking concerns
• Potential sidewalk riding concerns
• Rebalancing bikes and scooters

12. Harmony Campus to Clackamas Town
Center MAX Station is 1 Mile
Clackamas Middle
College
Clackamas Town
Center MAX Station
Harmony Campus

13. Incentivize Companies to Rebalance Bikes
and Scooters to Harmony Campus
• Milwaukie and Clackamas County use similar
right-of-way use surcharge as Portland
– $0.20 in Downtown Milwaukie
– $0.05 near Harmony campus
Source: PBOT

14. Oregon City Transit Challenges
• Rural Clackamas County to Oregon City
– TriMet does not provide fixed-route service to
rural Clackamas County south of Oregon City
– SCTD has limited geographic coverage
– CAT ends at Oregon City Transit Center
• Must transfer to TriMet to access Oregon City campus
– Wilsonville’s SMART does not connect to Oregon
City

15. No Transit from Beavercreek
to Oregon City Campus

16. On-Demand Shuttle
• What about people who do not have smartphone?
Source: Wunder Mobility

17. Wilsonville Transit Challenges
• Vanpool or shuttle from Oregon City to
Wilsonville
– Partnering with Wilsonville’s SMART to provide
vanpool
• Provide bikeshare and scootershare from WES
Station to Wilsonville campus

18. Transit from Oregon City Campus to
Wilsonville Campus

19. Wilsonville Campus to
Wilsonville WES Station is 2 Miles

20. Ray Atkinson
Transportation Systems Analyst
ray.atkinson@clackamas.edu
503-594-0989