Reasonable Site Selection of Urban Rail Transit Park-and-Ride Facilities

Abstract

Briefly introduced the concept and development status of P&R (Park-and-Ride). Analysis the importance and necessity about developing urban rail transit to the improvement of traffic congestion and realizing green traffic and low carbon travel. First, the problem research mainly discusses the permanent residents who live outside the urban central area with private cars and takes characteristics of the differences of service level of different travel modes as starting point. Then, establish logit travel mode choice model and figure out the utility of travelers from residence to urban central area by three travel modes such as urban rail transit for whole range, private cars for whole range and P&R. And determine the choice probability of travelers towards these travel modes according to this. At last, establish the site selection model of urban rail transit P&R based on choice behavior of residence. The goal of the model is to meet the demand of parking and riding of residence and reduce the number of private cars entering the urban central area and traffic corridor in the maximal degree. At the same time, it takes constraint conditions such as investment upper limit of facilities and the reasonable parking number of a single facility into consideration. This model provides a solution for site selection of urban rail transit P&R facilities.