the evidence suggests that having a tram connection improves the attractiveness of park and rides to car drivers over the attractiveness with bus service
Tram service attract car drivers to park and rides more than bus service.. Edinburgh experience
How Freiburg’s tram solution was much more effective than York’s cheap bus solution
https://bathtrams.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/APPLRG151210-1.pdf slides 18 – 30 in above show how much better Freiburg did by expanding the trams than York which tried the cheap bus solution; similar size cities York’s failed bendy bus solution Freiburg’s pedestrianised area + trams Below, click to see other tram papers: https://bathtrams.uk/bath-tram-conference/
Good letter in Chronicle describing measures that can be taken immediately in Bath to alleviate congestion
Good summary of what should and could be done now – we would support these measured, but also plan for the introduction of trams in the near future which will re-enforce the effect of these measures. Bath Trams does not think Park and Rides are necessarily a good thing – see: https://bathtrams.uk/is-park-and-ride-the-answer-to-baths-…/
A Bath link road is unlikely to cut Bath’s congestion – letter in Chronicle
For the reasons stated in the letter, based on evidence, a link road will make little difference to Bath’s congestion, because most of the traffic is local. Any difference would soon be swallowed up by induced demand ( more people would make more journeys because they perceive the delays are not as long as previously). […]
Why building more roads, or any traffic improvement scheme is not cost effective and does not cut overall congestion
People generally spend an hour a day traveling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant So any road improvement simply means that people will journey further to their destinations. This means there will be the same number of cars on the road as before but they are spread over a longer road mileage. But immediately other drivers will work out that […]
Buses, Busways or BRT have never attracted sufficient car drivers to reduce congestion even if they are quicker.
See Also: https://bathtrams.uk/buses-and-busways-some-factual-observations-by-prof-lewis-lesley/ It is absolutely not true that if you take away the car choice, people will go by bus. It has been proven over and over again, that people just choose what is easier and go to other destinations” I spent 15 years in Academia and Local Government trying to get people out of […]
Park and rides are significantly more used when served by trams than buses
Note – the Bath, Odd Down, Park and Ride is only about half full at peak-time when it is most needed. Nottingham Nottingham has 5,000 P+R places on 7 sites around the periphery of the city. Most are full most of the day, and some are over-capacity, with parking on surrounding streets. The largest is […]
3. Why was Edinburgh track so expensive and what are the alternatives?
The picture above shows why Edinburgh track laying was perhaps so time-consuming, as there was a thick concrete base laid, then tied sleepers placed on that, and this was then all encased in more concrete. Life expectancy will not allow us to see how worn track will be replaced, but meantime Siberian iron-ore trains could probably […]
Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 4
See Also: https://bathtrams.uk/evidence-that-car-drivers-will-switch-to-trams-but-not-buses-1/ Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 2 Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 3 evidence-that-car-drivers-will-switch-to-trams-but-not-buses-4/ https://bathtrams.uk/buses-and-busways-some-factual-observations-by-prof-lewis-lesley/ https://bathtrams.uk/car-drivers-will-not-use-buses/ See also evidence that car drivers hate buses The Executive summary from report prepared for the Passenger Transport Executive Group – “What Light Rail […]
Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 1
See Also: https://bathtrams.uk/buses-have-a-much-lower-modal-shift-ie-attracting-car-drivers-capability-than-trams/ https://bathtrams.uk/buses-have-a-much-lower-modal-shift-ie-attracting-car-drivers-capability-than-trams/ Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 2 Evidence that car drivers will switch to trams but not buses – 3 evidence-that-car-drivers-will-switch-to-trams-but-not-buses-4/ https://bathtrams.uk/buses-and-busways-some-factual-observations-by-prof-lewis-lesley/ https://bathtrams.uk/car-drivers-will-not-use-buses/ See also evidence that car drivers hate buses USA – home of the car love affair A US Transportation Research Board analysis […]