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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17 C h a p t e r 3 Purpose of This Chapter Planning requires both long-range planning and site-specific project planning. Planning park-and-ride requires an understanding of travel demand modeling and documentation of local factors that may affect service.
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18 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Transit Service Characteristics Transit service characteristics directly affect the opportunities and requirements for parkand-ride. Planning must take into consideration these factors and how they influence travel behavior.
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Strategic planning for park-and-ride 19 Open-lot parking is generally less expensive to build than garages. However, when land costs exceed about $50 per square foot, multilevel garages may have less total cost (land and construction)
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20 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Land Availability The availability of undeveloped land is another key factor. Most transit agencies and local communities are not inclined to pursue eminent domain for parking facilities.
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Strategic planning for park-and-ride 21 for parking and considerations for charging for parking. UTA's Park-and-Ride Lot Master Plan (2014)
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22 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Transit agencies should be active participants in local and regional planning processes, both to get park-and-ride projects into regional plans (to facilitate future development and grant funding) and to identify opportunities to change station-area priorities, including the potential for TOD.
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Strategic planning for park-and-ride 23 highway and transit access and visibility, strong ridership potential, and a perception of security. Facilities should be located where land is available and affordable, and where environmental impacts can be minimized.
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24 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Input data requirements vary by model but generally include, at a minimum, demographic data for the station area, available from the U.S. Census, and data about the existing or planned transit service at the station.
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Strategic planning for park-and-ride 25 Like MPO-maintained travel models, the STOPS mode-choice and transit-loading models predict the number of zone-to-zone trips on transit, the distribution of those transit trips by access mode (including park-and-ride or drop-off and ride) , and the volume of trips by access mode at each boarding location (including designated park-and-ride facilities on fixed guideways or bus routes)
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26 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities One critical aspect of right-sizing a park-and-ride facility is understanding the transit agency governing board's expectations and tolerance for investment in land for future use. For example, UTA policy permits the transit agency to acquire enough land and construct parking to serve long-term demand.
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Strategic planning for park-and-ride 27 • The transit agency owns lots and contracts some operations tasks (e.g., snow removal, cleaning, and landscaping)
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28 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities NJ TRANSIT has several types of shared-use facilities, acting as property owner, leaser, or simply a benefactor of available nearby parking. The majority of NJ TRANSIT's park-and-rides are not directly operated by NJ TRANSIT, and with limited room for expansion, NJ TRANSIT has a high degree of shared-use facilities in its parking inventory.
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