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PARK AND RIDE SCHEMES
R W Bixby
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Abstract
The relative merits and success of several schemes are discussed, including both those based on rail travel and on shopping trips by bus. Of the four major bus schemes introduced in the 1970s only that at oxford survives today. However, several cities with historic cases are now considering park and ride schemes which are seen as part of an overall policy which must include bus controls and control of central area parking. Details are given of new, non-seasonal all-day schemes which are now also operating in bath, chester and exeter; others are being considered in Cambridge, Chichester and York. Traffic flows into the centre of oxford have remained broadly constant whilst national trends have been increasing and land in the city centre has been freed for residential development. Park and ride now plays a crucial part in oxford's transportation system such that it is difficult to imagine what would happen to traffic without it.