Bicycle parking preferences: costs versus walking time

Successful bicycle stimulating policies may increase the need for bicycle parking capacity, especially at main railway stations located in city centers. A potential solution for this problem involves combining paid surveyed indoor parking near the platforms and free open-air parking without surveillance at larger distances. In this paper, the preferences of train travelers who use a bicycle as egress or access mode are examined with respect to this solution by reporting the results of a stated choice experiment (n=866). In this experiment respondents chose among paid and free bicycle storage facilities and two base alternatives involving another mode of transport and using another station. Based on the observed choices, a multinomial logit (MNL) model and a five-class Latent Class Model (LCM) were estimated. The results suggest preference differences among the segments with respect to all attributes, but especially with respect to type of surveillance. An important finding is that under the researched solution, only a small part of the train travelers stop using bicycle as access and egress mode and of this group, only a very small part will switch to car. Based on these results the authors conclude that the paid bicycle parking is a feasible solution to distribute scarce parking capacity at main railway stations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values. Alternate title: Trade-off Between Paying for and Walking Distance to Bicycle Parking Facilities at Railway Stations
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Molin, Eric
  • Maat, Kees
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle facilities; Costs; Cyclists; Multinomial logits; Multivariate analysis; Parking; Pay parking; Railroad stations; Stated preferences; Surveillance; Walking distance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Willingness to pay
• Geographic Terms: Utrecht (Netherlands)
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01515205
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2258
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 21 2014 3:18PM