The Planning Method of Regional Parking Based on Railway Transit Park-and-ride

In order to satisfy the growing parking demand in urban and relieve traffic pressure in downtown, under the condition of railway transit park-and-ride(P&R), the methods of site selection and scale calculation of regional parking facilities are studied. Based on the principle of random user selection, the Logit models of parking demand forecasting both in downtown and peripheral zones are constructed. Using the minimum total travelling distance as objective function, the site selection optimization model of P&R station is constructed. The calculation methods of parking scale both in downtown and at P&R station are also processed. Selecting Xi’an Road business circle in Dalian as study object, both parking demand survey and parking characteristic analysis are conducted. According to the survey data, not only the site of P&R station is planed, but also the scale of regional parking facility is calculated. The research indicates that, for urban with railway transit, this method is more beneficial to lead parking demand to distribute more reasonably on land space, compared with the traditional planning method.