The Attitude and Preference of Traveler to the Park & Ride Facilities: a Case Study in Nanjing, China

As a measure of total demand management, park and ride has been widely used in many countries and proved to be successful in mitigating congestion and difficulty of finding parking space in the urban centers. In order to understand drivers' willingness to use park and ride facilities and the factors which influence drivers' decision to support our governments' decision making, we did an onsite face-to-face survey in Nanjing, China. We found that the drivers with higher income and more years of driving experience would less likely use park & ride facilities while higher congestion level and parking fees would increase the odds of using park & ride facilities. The gender and age of the drivers, tolls, expenditure on gasoline, driving stress, and familiarity to the roads did not have significant impacts on the use of park & ride facilities. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Beijing Jiaotong University [BJU], Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC)