Bibliography
TRANSPORTATION:
- US school bus fleet is 2.5 times the size of all other forms of mass transportation combined.
School buses: America’s Largest Transit System
US Department of Transportation Bureau of Statistics
- Research universities have annual budgets that run in the range of $1 to $10 billion budgets which includes medical research and healthcare delivery enterprises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States
- Larger universities worldwide run in the range of 40,000 to 2,000,000 enrolled students which may or may not live on campus. This does not include the faculty and staff that must use transportation systems to get to their work. Parking is a challenge in almost all college towns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_universities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_university_campuses_by_enrollment
- College towns are not getting smaller; quite the opposite.
https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/college-rankings/fastest-growing-college-towns-2/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/business/college-towns-can-be-attractive-later-in-life.html
- Unlike many colleges and universities in Europe and Asia which have grown within “intersticially” within older cities; larger college and university “towns” run in the range of 10 to 40 square miles — especially land grant institutions with agricultural enterprises and/or medical research and healthcare delivery enterprises.
https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/college-rankings/biggest-college-campuses-in-us/
- School district and university transit systems sometimes run cooperatively with with host city transportation systems.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_and_college_bus_systems
https://www.apta.com/resources/links/Pages/USUniversityTransit.aspx
