park and ride
Sign in to saveAlso known as P+R, incentive parking, commuter lot
intermodal passenger transport using special car park with public transport connections
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- parking area
- Location
- suburb
- Image
- ParkAndRideSignOxford20050910.JPG
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- Commons category
- Park and Ride
- facet of
- commuting
- name
- parking de dissuasion
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Encyclopedic overview
A road sign for park and ride in Oxford, United Kingdom Standard park and ride sign in the United States A park and ride, also known as a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (rapid transit, light rail, or commuter rail), or carpool for the remainder of the journey. The vehicle is left in the parking lot during the day and retrieved when the owner returns. Park and rides are generally located in the suburbs of metropolitan areas or on the outer edges of large cities. A park and ride that only offers parking for meeting a carpool and not connections to public transport may also be called a park and pool.
Park and ride is abbreviated as "P+R" on road signs in some countries, and is often styled as "Park & Ride" in marketing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “park and ride” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.