Mobility Framework
CAMPUS MASTER PLAN MOBILITY FRAMEWORK UPDATE
Virginia Tech’s campus master plan is a flexible guide for shaping the university’s physical environment in step with its strategic goals. Adopted in 2018, it outlines adaptable frameworks for land use, design, and mobility. Now, the mobility framework is being updated to reflect new technologies, campus needs, and regional connections—ensuring the plan remains a living roadmap for a vibrant, connected campus.
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All members and affiliates of the Virginia Tech community can provide feedback based on your campus experience, whether you travel through the Blacksburg campus, the greater Washington, D.C. area campus, the Roanoke region, or one of the Agricultural Research and Extension Centers (ARECs), your input helps shape updates to the university’s campus master plan mobility framework.
ALL VIRGINIA TECH STUDENTS & EMPLOYEES
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BLACKSBURG AREA
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Questions, comments, other related feedback should be directed to mobilityframeworkupdate@vt.edu.
Virginia Tech’s campus master plan informs opportunities for future land use, but it is not a capital outlay plan. The campus master plan provides key principles and, in some cases, broad recommendations for making decisions about particular building siting, design, and anticipated infrastructure needs. A campus master plan is not a blueprint for future development, rather, it is a flexible, adaptable, and evolutionary document that sets forth principles for future land use, while preserving and enhancing the unique character of Virginia Tech’s campus locations.
Virginia Tech’s current campus master plan – adopted in 2018 – is organized around six thematic frameworks for the future of the campus, which collectively contribute to a comprehensive and coordinated guide for incremental change. These frameworks combine to provide an integrated and comprehensive structure for development and change across the Blacksburg campus.
The campus master plan mobility framework provides a guide for improving physical access throughout Virginia Tech’s campuses. Virginia Tech’s current campus master plan promotes a balanced approach to mobility – including human-powered movement, bicycle, and transit connectivity. To ensure that the campus master plan is a living document reflective of the university's current needs the mobility framework is undergoing an update. This is because nearly ten years after adoption there have been significant advancements in transportation technologies, university programming across the Commonwealth of Virginia, and infrastructure development, elevating the necessity for an update to Virginia Tech’s campus master plan mobility framework.
This update to Virginia Tech’s campus master plan’s mobility framework accounts for key outcomes from the plan adopted in 2018, as well as micro mobility, efficient parking and transportation infrastructure across the Blacksburg campus, as well as travel to, from, and around the Roanoke and Washington, D.C. regions.
Over the next year and a half, the Division of Facilities and Auxiliary and Business Services – in conjunction with an independent consultant – will foster meaningful participation and engagement with the university community, its visitors, and regional stakeholders in the update process to the university’s campus master plan mobility framework through digital and in-person feedback collection processes.