Park And Ride Essay

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The Park and Ride services, otherwise known as ‘incentive parking’ seek to attract as much as possible, single occupancy vehicles from going to the major cities to park in these facilities at the sub-urban fringe while shifting people to use high occupancy vehicles such as urban shuttle services, busses, minivans for the latter part of the journey. (Ginn, 2009) These refer to a “peripheral” Park-and-Ride facilities, trips originate outside of the congested urban areas; the destination are usually dispersed at different points in the urban areas. Some transport researchers have questioned whether such facilities should be located close to the city boundaries i.e. the sub-urban fringe or located near the origin of the trip.

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The Remote Park and Ride was aimed to intercept drivers close to their point of origin in order to alleviate traffic congestions at the suburban areas, the second was based on the ‘peripheral’ system whereby the service was designed in such a way, that it intercepted people for their final part of their journey by providing parking spaces and other amenities in order to absorb the traffic flow before entering the city. The last category was based on the fundamental idea that drivers must be intercepted at a ‘local level’ i.e. focusing on major routes which are prone to traffic congestions.
The majority of the Park and Ride services operate on 24/7 basis, these permanent park and ride sites which cater for daily activities like shopping and work in the city central areas whilst there are some Park and Ride services which operate on a part time basis or temporarily. These are generally catered during the Christmas shopping season or as a result of a massive and occasional event like concerts, major sporting events being organised. (Cairns, 1997). The provision of this brief service, is subjective to any traffic management arrangements in order to maintain the same level of accessibility. (Woods, …show more content…

The majority of the Park and Ride are intermodal accessible or promote an interchange system, but others are are too restictive only to those arriving by private transportation, Moran (1990) states that such systems were designed to accomodate the motorists rather then the general public especially those that make use of public transport, while this assesment recognises that fact that the focus should be dedicated on those making use of the single occupancy veichles, Parkhurst (2000) however states that there are economic and social implications which may have dire effects on the success of these

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