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<br /> OPT Short Range Transit Plan <br /> <br />Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. | 2-4 <br /> <br /> <br />Travel Demand <br />Figure 2-2 shows the trip lines for the largest commute patterns for Orange County residents that <br />commute to either Orange or Durham Counties. The strongest commute patterns from the north <br />and west portions of Orange County are to the Duke University, Duke Hospital, and the Durham <br />VA Medical Center area. More than 500 individuals make this trip daily. Given the cost of <br />parking near Duke University, the level of demand is sufficient to support park-and-ride based <br />commuter type service in the I-85 corridor. <br />South Orange County residents are more likely to commute into Chapel Hill. While many people <br />commute into Chapel Hill from north and west of Carrboro, the most common commute trips <br />originate from neighborhoods on both sides of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill. <br />The demand pattern suggests that commuter type service from Hillsborough and the NC 54 <br />corridor may be viable. Currently, the NC 54 corridor is not served by park-and-ride based <br />service. Given some of the additional demand to UNC-Chapel Hill coming from Alamance <br />County, some additional consideration to a park-and-ride in this location should be considered.