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Second Annual College Town Renter Satisfaction Rankings Rate Renter Satisfaction Based on Ratings by Current Apartment Renters LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 26, 2011) - With college graduation season in full swing, ApartmentRatings.com (www.apartmentratings.com), the leading website for user reviews of apartments around the United States, today released its annual rankings of renter satisfaction for the 100 largest college towns and college cities in the country. Topping this year's list is Berkeley, Calif., home to the University of California-Berkeley, the oldest university in California's University of California system. The university's 35,000 students enjoy a picturesque, small-town feel in the city of about 100,000. Though housing costs can be higher than many other college towns, Berkeley offers numerous public transit options and is extremely pedestrian and bicycle friendly -- an ideal situation for college students . Berkeley takes the top spot from D...

University shuttle operations can use school vacations, like winter or spring breaks, for driver education and training sessions. Summer may be a quiet time on a college campus , but for operators of on- and off-campus bus and shuttle services , summer vacation is no time for relaxing. The proverbial to-do list is a long one that includes addressing issues around staffing vehicle maintenance , route planning , marketing, budgeting, and maybe even international relations. Each school is unique due to the size of the campuses, student bodies, and their locations within their local communities. But, virtually all of them have two key things in common: the layout of the routes and an “off season.” Compared to a standard bus service with a dozens of routes that wind their way through an entire city all year long, a university service requires fewer routes and stops and transports riders to one location — the campus. That means when the spring semester ends , operators can scale back the ...