City planners and the University of Windsor are working on a transportation plan to provide a more convenient way for students to get to the school's downtown campuses.

"We call it a modal shift, which means what form of transportation will they take?" said Thom Hunt, the city planner. "It may be that we can, depending on the facilities that are provided, make it more cost-effective and time-saving to use the bus."

There is a concern there won't be enough parking if students decide to drive their own vehicles.

Hunt said the plan could include a shuttle service.

"We might locate the parking lot at the current campus, near Sunset and University, and then shuttle people into the downtown," Hunt explained. "So we're looking at other options and other ways that we would get people downtown, rather than I think the default that seems to be that they would take their own car and try and park it downtown."

It will be a couple years before all the university's new properties downtown are developed.