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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

management plans and preferential policies for system is really manual. Here, people use the ropes
managers. to cross over the entrance to control vehicles
accessing and these ropes are controlled by a worker.
Norlida Abdul Hamid (2009) [5]. His study
focused on the evaluation of utilization patterns of In other hand, service systems in station are
two P&R facilities in Seremban and Shah Alam extremely poor with 02 chop – houses outside and
(Malaysia) based on occupancy rate, accumulation 01 small canteen inside the main building. Although
and duration pattern of the parkers of the stations. the acreage of YEN NGHIA station is quite large,
This study indicated that parking availability and but the number of buses is sparse.
easy accessibility were important factors to assist in
the success of P&R scheme.
Saksith Chalermpong et al. (2018) [6] The
results of this study provided evidences on P&R user
characteristics in Bangkok and confirmed the P&R
effectiveness on time savings and travel distance
reduction. In other hand, this research was able to
define the catchment area of a transit station and this
result could support for policy establishment and
researchers proposed key policy implications for this
city.

Robert J. Spillar [7] established the
guidelines of Park-and-Ride to provide a
comprehensive handbook to design and plan a P&R Figure 3: Parking lots currently in Yen Nghia
facility. This book clarified the definitions of P&R station
by different ways. Otherwise, this handbook provide
P&R planning process. According to the survey, this station has 12
bus routes, including 1 BRT line and 11 intercity bus
Based on the basic of previous studies routes. In the area belonged to station, there are
related to P&R measure in ASEAN and Hanoi city. currently 2 commercial parking lots with a capacity
In this study, the purposes are finding out issues of about 600 motors and bicycles managed by
related with current infrastructure of Yen Nghia private owners and 1 parking lots for workers and
station and propose improvement plans based on real employees of Yen Nghia station.
demand of users. It is expected to attract more
passengers and contribute to the success of P&R
application.

3. Methodology
3.1 Interview survey
The conducting area of interview survey is
Yen Nghia station located in National Highway 6
(NH.6), it is far from city center about 14km and is
one of gateway areas of Hanoi. It has the acreage of
nearly 7 hectares, including 4,050 m 2 of
administrator building and 13,800 m parking yard
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and other facilities such as catering, refreshments
and other services for drivers and passengers.
Figure 4: Rope system in the entrance to control
The operation of Yen Nghia station has vehicles accessing to station.
many restrictions, for example, the bus and taxi gate

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