Park and Ride in Breda

The accessibility of cities is one of the aspects that is important for the competitiveness of cities in order to be attractive for visitors, firms and residents. But transport can also cause problems as congestion and pollution what hurts the quality of life. This thesis will make clear if is possible, and under which conditions, to develop P&R in Breda, serving the inner city and what the target groups are? Developing P&R can have several goals but the most important is to improve the accessibility. To stimulate the use of P&R it is needed that P&R offers the user a higher value than the other non-desired mode does. Besides that, people make their choice between travel modes also because of habits, they don’t choose automatically a transport mode if it offers them a better value. Besides aspects regarding P&R itself, also the municipal policy should be in line with P&R, economically but especially the transport policy. P&R should be combined with a restrictive parking policy that reduces the attractiveness of parking in the inner city compared with using P&R. Research among cities already exploiting P&R shows that most cities started because congestion and problems regarding the quality of life. P&R is mostly used by commuters and visitors. Essential for P&R is a relation with the municipal policy, tariff differences with inner city parking, a fast and frequent public transport connection and a good accessible location.