Shuttle-UM
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A Shuttle-UM 35 ft. Gillig Low Floor Bus
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| Parent | University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) |
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| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | 424 Paint Branch Drive |
| Locale |
College Park, Maryland Baltimore, Maryland |
| Service area |
Prince George's Montgomery Baltimore |
| Service type |
Bus service Demand responsive transport Charter service |
| Alliance |
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) University of Baltimore (UB) Universities at Shady Grove (USG) |
| Routes | 31 |
| Hubs |
Adele H. Stamp Student Union (UMD) Regents Drive Parking Garage (UMD) Pearl Street Garage (UMB) |
| Depots | UMCP Shuttle Facility |
| Fleet |
Gillig Corporation Chevrolet Setra |
| Daily ridership | 11,200 (2015) |
| Annual ridership | 2,956,600 (2015) |
| Fuel type |
Ultra-low-sulfur diesel Diesel-electric |
| Operator | Department of Transportation Services (UMD) Parking and Transportation Services (UMB) |
| Chief executive | David Allen (Executive Director) |
| Website |
Shuttle-UM UM Shuttle UB Shuttle |
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Shuttle-UM is a transit system for the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), which constitutes the UM acronym of the company, that operates as a unit of the university's Department of Transportation Services. The system is student-run and is supported by student fees and the university's Student Affairs department. Its fleet consists of over 60 vehicles and transports approximately over three million riders a year. The system provides four different services: commuter, evening, charter, and demand response. The latter consists of a paratransit service and a call response curb-to-curb service during the evening, while the former consists of a bus service that runs for 24 hours, seven days a week. Implied by its name, the bus service routes "shuttle" passengers to and from the university with over 20 different routes. Paid upon admission by students to the university, the services are complimentary and only certain services require university identification badges. In 2012, the company expanded to provide service to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) campus under the name, UM Shuttle. Additionally, a new facility was built to house Shuttle-UM's operations and fleet within the campus after over 30 years of being housed off campus.
Shuttle-UM was established in November 1972 by the University of Maryland, College Park's (UMD) Black Student Union as an initiative to promote security for students walking through campus during the evening hours. Operations began with the use of two vans to circulate campus, which were purchased by UMD's Student Government Association (SGA), the campus' student governing body, through approval by the Office of Commuter Student Affairs, a campus organization supporting students commuters. The operations were run in the basement of a residence hall on campus and consisted of running the vans on two fixed routes. By Spring 1973, the Residence Hall Association, the governing body for the campus' dormitory halls, donated an additional van which led to three fixed routes running through campus in the evening. By the end of the system's first year of service, 65,000 had been transported. The following year saw the addition of daytime routes to operations to parking lots and the establishment of Call-A-Ride, which was the original first curb-to-curb service for the transit system. In 1975, four Mercedes Benz vans were purchased to expand the fleet to six vehicles. This same year, the name Shuttle-UM was established, three years after being a service provided by SGA, Shuttle-UM was now an independent entity for UMD. Upon the transit system's independence, Charter service was added to its operations in 1975; the following year saw expansion to the curb-to-curb service with Disability Transit Service" for handicap persons; off-campus routes were established in 1976.
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