TY - BOOK AU - Shah, Jainal AU - Sinha, Shalini (Guide) TI - Park and ride : integration of private and public mode of transport (Also available on CD) U1 - P TH-1472 PY - 2012/// N1 - CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURE ix LIST OF CHART x LIST OF TABLE xi Executive Summary xii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 How Public Transport can be accessible? 2 1.2.1 Landuse Transport Integration 2 1.2.2 Complementary service to Public Transport 3 1.3 Research Problem 3 1.3.1 Issues pertaining the topic 3 1.3.2 Research Problem 4 1.4 Ahmedabad Profile 4 1.5 Research Background 4 1.6 Need of Integration 5 1.7 Research Objective and Question 6 1.8 Research Framework 7 1.9 Scope and Limitation 8 1.10 Outcome of the thesis 8 1.11 Thesis structure 8 2 PLANNING FOR PARK AND RIDE SERVICES 10 2.1 Background 10 2.2 Defining Park & Ride (P&R) 11 2.3 Park and Ride Classification 12 2.3.1 Park and Ride Facility defined by Function 13 2.3.2 Park and Ride Facility defined by distance to destination market 15 2.4 Impact of Park and Ride facilities 19 2.5 User?s perspective for the use of Park and Ride 20 2.5.1 When do people use park and ride? 20 2.5.2 When do people not use park and ride? 21 2.6 Evaluation parameter to attract Park and Ride users 21 2.6.1 Location of facility 21 2.6.2 Cost: 21 2.6.3 Time: 22 2.6.4 Security: 23 2.7 Site Selection Criteria 23 2.8 Summary 24 3 STUDY AREA DEFINITION 25 3.1 SITE SELECTION 25 3.1.1 Availability of Public Transport 25 3.1.2 Worker Population Density (2011) 26 3.1.3 Socio - Economic Characteristics (2011) 27 3.1.4 Distance from Activity Center 27 3.1.5 Access 28 3.1.6 Land Availability 29 3.2 Study Area Characteristics 30 3.2.1 Zone Identification 31 3.2.2 Data Collection 33 3.2.3 Household Survey 33 3.2.4 Secondary Data 34 3.3 Summary 34 4 ANALYSIS AND OUTCOMES 35 4.1 Chapter Structure 35 4.2 Travel Distance and Journey Speed 35 4.3 Coverage of BRT Network 35 4.4 Acceptance to P&R Service 37 4.4.1 Income Based Analysis 37 4.4.2 Travel Distance Based Analysis 38 4.5 Catchment Area for P&R 40 4.6 Economical Travel Distance 42 4.6.1 Generalized Travel Cost 42 4.6.2 Generalized Travel Time 43 4.7 Findings 44 5 FEASIBILITY OF PARK AND RIDE SERVICE 45 5.1 Chapter Structure 45 5.2 Trip Expansion 45 5.2.1 Need for trip expansion 45 5.2.2 Identifying the expansion factor 45 5.3 Scenario Building 46 5.3.1 Scenario 1: Free Park and Ride service 47 5.3.2 Scenario 2: Paid Park and Ride Service 48 5.3.3 Scenario 3: Paid Park and Ride service (Subsidies by 60%) 50 5.3.4 Scenario 4: Parking Charges at destination end for Private users 51 5.3.5 Comparing Different Scenarios 53 5.4 Cost of Implementation 54 6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 55 6.1 Conclusion 55 6.2 Recommendation and future scope 56 7 BIBLIOCHARTY 57 Annexure I: Survey Form 58 Annexure II: BRTS Fare Structure 59 Annexure III: Fuel Price 59 Annexure IV: Parking charges by Janmarg along BRTS route 60 Annexure V: Parking charges by AMC in the city 60 Annexure VI: Emission Factor 60 ER -