We present a reduced-boundary-function method for longitudinal solute transport in symmetric laminar flows. Flow is confined by two flat plates separated by a distance of 2a or by a tube with a radius of a (Figure 1). The standard advection-diffusion equation is mapped onto the boundary (r=a and r=0, where r is the distance from the centerline shown in Figure 1). The original problem of solving c(x,r,t) is reduced to solve the solutions of c at the boundary, and the problem dimensionality is reduced from 3 to 2. Final results show that the boundary concentration ca(x,t)=c(x, r=a,t) is advected at the mean velocity with a dispersion equal to the molecular diffusion. The centerline concentration c0(x,t)=c(x,r=0,t) is also advected at the mean velocity, but with a dispersion much larger than the Taylor dispersion. The cross-sectional average concentration is in agreement with the classical Taylor dispersion by neglecting higher order contributions. This study is relevant to the upscaling of solute transport.