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Norwich (moved from charging per car to per person in 2009)

�There has been a decline in park and ride usage in the last two years

Factors affecting are:-

� Increased parking provision in the city centre with a new multi story car park opening.

� Different parking pricing policy in the city centre with retailers encouraging short term afternoon parking with very cheap prices. �1.50 after 3.30pm.

� The City Council owning about 1/3 of the car parks and needing to encourage usage to protect their revenue stream. NATS and strategy to tariff on medium / long stay car parks to support P&R.� Some undermining of policy as not unitary authority status in Norwich. County responsible for on street and P&R only.

� A large number of development sites being used for cheap all day parking before development starts.

� The recession, it would appear patronage across all city centre car parks has declined this year at a similar level to our experience. 5-6 % and turnover per space down up to 20% on some private short stay sites.

� City centre employers relocating to out of town business parks.

� In June 2009 we changed to pay per person on 5 sites and the last one changed on 31/08/09. Loss of patronage from car sharers has been experienced though we have seen some increase in single occupancy usage.�

Norwich Passengers

	Oct 2006 to Sep 08	Oct 2007 to Sep 08	Change from Oct 06/08	Oct 2008 to Sep 09	Change from Oct 07/08
Total up to Sep		3226673		2916567	-9.61%
Total Jan to Sep	2431211	2268565	-6.69%	2023084	-10.82%

The nine month period up to and including September 2009 showed a reduction of 10.82% in the number of passengers, compared to the same period in 2008.� There was a 9.61% reduction in the number of passengers in October 2008 to Sep 2009 compared to the previous year. �Therefore the number of passengers has fallen in both years.

Norwich		Vehicles
	Oct 2006 to Sep 07		Oct 2007 to Sep 08	Change from Oct 06/07	Oct 2008 to Sep 09	Change from Oct 07/08
Total up to Sep			871102		840914	-3.47%
Total Jan to Sep	632873		610412	-3.55%	589758	-3.38%

The nine month period up to and including September 2009 showed a reduction of 3.38% in the number of vehicles compared to the same period in 2008, and a 3.55% reduction in the previous year.� There was a 3.47% reduction in the number of vehicles in the year from October 2008 compared to October 2007.� Therefore there continues to be a consistent rate in the reduction in the number of vehicles parking for Park and Ride in Norwich.