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Parking provision, parking demand and public transport accessibility
Published in Corinne Mulley, John D. Nelson, Stephen Ison, The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport, 2021
Barbara T.H. Yen, Corinne Mulley
Park-and-ride facilities are usually located at the edge of urban areas or in suburban areas, especially for low population density areas where there is enough physical space for provision. Park-and-ride facilities provide access to various public transport modes. In Europe, park-and-ride is usually provided by light rail, bus and heavy rail. In Australia, park-and-ride facilities are usually heavy rail or bus based and are located in suburban areas. In particular, bus based park-and-rides are popular in Brisbane, Australia, where the bus service is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system (known as the Busway) with limited bus stops at higher service frequencies. A similar case can be found in United Kingdom, where bus-based park-and-ride services are generally operated by dedicated (often branded) buses serving only the park-and-ride sites at high-demand destinations (Meek, 2008; Meek et al., 2011; Mingardo et al., 2015). As a supply-side management policy, park-and-ride provision is probably the most important proactive implementation. However, in terms of public transport access and parking, to consider only the supply side ignores the way the supply needs to meet the needs of car drivers and other stakeholders using our cities.
First and last mile travel mode choice: A systematic review of the empirical literature
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2023
Ying Lu, Anthony Kimpton, Carlo G. Prato, Neil Sipe, Jonathan Corcoran
Driving private cars to public transport (i.e. using a park and ride or parking nearby) not only contributes toward traffic congestion and air pollution but also increases the expenses on constructing and maintaining parking facilities around stations (Habib et al., 2013; Transportation Research Board, 2016). Specifically, during the peak hours, it is likely that park and ride is insufficient, and car drivers need to spend time in searching for vacant car parks. However, expanding the park and ride increases the expenditure and results in significant traffic congestions in the local area surrounding the transit stations (Olaru et al., 2014; Ortega et al., 2021; Parkhurst, 2000). Additionally, by relying on park and ride to attract people to use public transit, the overall capacity of public transit system is limited by the amount of parking which can be offered (Habib et al., 2013; Mingardo, 2013).
Optimization-based study of the location of park-and-ride facilities
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2019
Joana Cavadas, António Pais Antunes
Park-and-ride facilities are parking lots located on the periphery of cities to intercept trips made by cars with origins in the suburbs and transfer them to a transit system (Noel 1988). Facilities of this type were first implemented in the United States in the 1950s and in the United Kingdom in the 1960s (Meek, Ison, and Enoch 2008; Dijk and Montalvo 2011), with the purpose of decreasing car use in urban areas, therefore contributing to mitigating the undesirable effects of automobiles with respect to traffic congestion and air pollution. On the negative side, park-and-ride is generally considered to favor car trips in suburban areas (Parkhurst 1995, 2000), causing ridership losses in thin transit routes that may eventually be abandoned, with serious consequences for people in those areas that do not own a car, cannot afford to pay a taxi, and who are left with virtually no option to travel to urban areas.