Conventional wisdom identifies restricted availability of car parking in the Sydney central business district as the main determinant of high public transport use. This paper explores the relationship between commuter mode choice to the Sydney CBD and car parking availability and the relative attractiveness of non-car modes for this particular travel. A description of transport and land use characteristics of the CBD is provided, in order to orient the reader and provide an indication of the scale and nature of the commuter transport task. Preliminary analyses are summarised that seek to find a simple relationship to explain commuter mode choice to the CBD. A relative accessibility analysis of the CBD for different modes is used to examine and try to explain the market structure evident in the journey to work data. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E214666.
Samenvatting