Call for abstracts for RGS Annual Conference 2014 Transport Geography Research Group-sponsored session:
"Towards Integrated Subregional Parking and Public Transport Strategies" http://tgrg.wordpress.com/
Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words to the convenors Prof. Graham Parkhurst, University of the West of England, Bristol [log in to unmask] , Dr William Clayton, University of the West of England, Bristol [log in to unmask] , and Dr Marc Dijk, University of Maastricht [log in to unmask] by 31 January 2014.
Our session relates to the conference theme 'Geographies of Co-production' through challenging current practices in transport policy implementation for city subregions. http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Conference+theme.htm
Postgraduate student presenters to TGRG sessions can be considered for a prize. Please advise if you require further details.
TOWARDS INTEGRATED SUBREGIONAL PARKING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT STRATEGIES
The location, capacity, quality, and price of parking are important influences on the decision to use private cars or public transport. However, the management and regulation of car parking is generally undertaken independently of public transport strategy, variously involving different local authorities, actors, documents and policy objectives. Parking policy may be seen as a factor in local economic promotion, or as a revenue-raising measure, or one of few effective car traffic restraint measures. Public transport can be identified as primarily a commuter travel solution - as other kinds of car trip are more 'welcome' in the city - or as providing a social service function for those without cars.
However, one aspect of transport policy which has seen attempts to integrate parking and public transport activities is in respect of 'Park and Ride' interchange strategies. A range of objectives may be proposed for such schemes (Dijk & Montalvo, 2011), including providing increased car parking capacity, avoiding car traffic or reducing gaseous emissions. However, as empirical studies have identified (e.g. Parkhurst & Richardson, 2002; Mingardo, 2013) such strategies have mostly been insufficiently ambitious, and have often been associated with increased rather than reduced car traffic.
The session will therefore consider past barriers and future opportunities for enhancing subregional and regional sustainable mobility strategies through integrating parking and intermodal transport policies. Abstracts with a broad range of relevance to the core topic are welcomed, including, but not restricted to, the following suggested foci:
* Better understanding of current travel choices between private, public and intermodal transport options in the urban and extra-urban context;
* Analysis of actors, networks and institutions engaging with subregional transport strategy;
* Theoretical approaches to understanding the role of intermodality in reducing car dependence;
* Empirical analyses of the effects of subregional transport policies;
* Data collection and analysis methods and techniques, such as GIS analysis and parking count techniques;
* Modelling and simulation studies of preferred intermodal passenger transport strategies.
References:
Dijk, M., Montalvo, C. (2011). Policy frames of Park-and-Ride in Europe. Journal of Transport Geography, 19, 1106-1119.
Mingardo, G., (2013). Transport and environmental effects of rail-based Park and Ride: evidence from the Netherlands. Journal of Transport Geography, 30, 7-16.
Parkhurst, G., Richardson, J. (2002). Modal integration of bus and car in UK local transport policy: the case for Strategic Environmental Assessment. Journal of Transport Geography, 10, 195-206.
Professor Graham Parkhurst
Director, Centre for Transport and Society
Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Faculty of Environment and Technology
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol BS16 1QY
United Kingdom
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