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Title:

Rationalizing Automobile Park-and-Ride Access to Bus Transit for Suburban Customers

Accession Number:

01625970

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

To save time and money, some urban commuters drive themselves a few miles (kilometers) to specially designated parking lots built for transit customers and located where trains or buses stop. The focus of this paper is the effect Park-and-Ride (P&R) lots have on the efficiency of bus transit. This study describes a series of probes with models and data to find objective P&R influence measures that, when combined with other readily-available data, permit a quantitative assessment of the significance of P&R on transit efficiency. The authors developed and describe techniques that examine P&R as an influence on transit boardings along an entire route. In a King County, Washington case study, quantitative evidence was found that the bus routes with higher productivity (measured by boardings per service hour) are associated with P&R facilities to a greater degree than routes with lower productivity. As an example of financial impact, 53 suburban Seattle bus routes of King County Metro were examined where the strongest influence on boardings per revenue hour was found within the data set. Calculations show that 50 thousand transit service hours, worth $17 million, are saved annually – ten percent of annual operating costs for this sub region – because passengers are picked up at P&R facilities instead of at bus stops not at P&R lots. The authors also illustrate that reasonable daily parking charges (compared to the cost of driving to more expensive parking downtown) would provide sufficient capital to build and operate new P&R capacity without subsidy from other revenue sources.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Transfer Facilities.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-02153

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Niles, John
Pogodzinski, J M (Mike)

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Multimodal facilities

Geographic Terms:

King County (Washington)

Subject Areas:

Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02153

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:47AM