Areas of Exploration
Park & Ride gives people more choices for getting around the city. It also helps the City move towards its goal of increasing transit ridership. Increasing transit ridership supports other goals of reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, reducing traffic congestion and promoting transit-oriented development.
The City’s current Park & Ride facilities are primarily aimed at Edmontonians who use transit for commuting to downtown or major activity centres such as universities and for special events.
Areas of exploration with the guidelines include:
- Defining the role of Park & Ride in the context of the broader transportation system
- Understanding how Park & Ride relates to other modes of access to transit centres
- Understanding how to serve a broader range of users throughout the day
- Leveraging third parties in the provision of Park & Ride to realize mutual benefits
- Understanding when and where Park & Ride needs to be established
- Understanding the relationship between Park & Ride and Transit Oriented Development
- Understanding how Park & Ride sites can be better designed to meet city-building objectives
- Managing the demand for Park & Ride
- Understanding the role of the region