Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride (2017) / Chapter Skim
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12 C h a p t e r 2 Purpose of This Chapter This chapter helps readers delve into the guidebook by addressing five questions about basic concepts of park-and-ride facilities and related public transportation services: • What is park-and-ride? • What are the benefits of park-and-ride?
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park-and-ride Overview 13 customer leaving his or her origin, driving to the park-and-ride facility, parking, riding public transportation, alighting, and walking to his or her destination. Access from home to transit is referred to as the first mile, and access from transit to the destination is referred to as the last mile (the actual distance may be more or less than a mile)
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14 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities • Provide access to rail and commuter bus transit services. • Provide convenient and safe meeting points for carpool and vanpool users.
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park-and-ride Overview 15 What Are the Types of Park-and-Ride Facilities? There are many types of park-and-ride facilities.
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16 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities facilities, such as those common in the southwestern United States where rapid urban growth presented opportunities for large purpose-built facilities near highway or tollway construction. – Special-case park-and-rides include all other less common types of facilities.
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