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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85 C h a p t e r 7 Purpose of This Chapter Some transit agencies with park-and-ride facilities provide parking as part of the transit fare, and others choose to charge for parking separately from fares. Charging for parking can offset capital and operating costs associated with the park-and-ride facility.
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86 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Case Study Transit Agencies To provide context for parking fees, Table 12 summarizes the median daily parking fee for each case study transit agency (as available)
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Charging for parking 87 Transit Agency CBD Daily Pricing (Median)
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88 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities A transit agency must also consider the parking market within the service area to determine if the market is capable of supporting charges for parking consistent with these goals. The following section discusses market analyses and the variables to consider when implementing parking fees.
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Charging for parking 89 • Houston METRO recovered about 29 percent of park-and-ride facility O&M expenses from parking revenues in 2013. • NJ TRANSIT charges for parking at most of its park-and-ride facilities to help offset parking facility costs and add to the transit agency's revenue stream.
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90 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities According to the case studies, CTA, Metra, NJ TRANSIT, and BART assess the cost of transit and parking at destinations to set parking fees. The transit agencies' experiences are as follows: • CTA adjusts parking fees in an effort to better manage parking at rail stations to maximize revenue and ridership.
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Charging for parking 91 Equity Concerns: Title VI Analysis The FTA requires that certain transit agencies conduct fare equity analyses and report specific data to ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Title VI does not require transit agencies to conduct analysis of parking fees, but transit agencies may choose to consider the equity of charging for parking.
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92 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities • Any future board decision on pricing SOV parking permits will also take into consideration options for discounted pricing for low-income riders. Methods of Collecting Fees Once a transit agency decides to charge for parking, it must determine how it will collect the parking fees.
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Charging for parking 93 • Houston METRO accepts payments at the Fannin South park-and-ride facility from a machine in the lot. Riders at the Cypress park-and-ride pay for parking using the transit agency's smart fare card.
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94 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Payments Accepted by Staff (In-House/Contracted) Methods of Accepting Payment Transit agencies that wish to provide immediate customer service and have on-site fee enforcement may choose to hire staff (or contract for the service)
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Charging for parking 95 enforce parking policies and practices using license place recognition and other matching techniques. Calgary Transit's facilities do not have dedicated on-site security personnel.
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96 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities new park-and-ride customers and resulting in a net increase in ridership. However, parking fees may increase the total cost of the transit trip to the point that there is a loss of ridership.
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Charging for parking 97 jurisdictions and transit agencies may have different laws, policies, and goals for charging (or not charging) for parking at park-and-ride facilities.
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98 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Mobile Payments Some transit agencies in the United States currently accept mobile payments for parking. As more transit agencies adopt mobile ticketing platforms and become more technology focused, the share of transit agencies that charge for parking via smartphones will increase quickly.
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