Park and ride schemes are public transport facilities which allow commuters to park their cars in a car park usually located on the outside of a city and transfer to a bus or rail system which will take them the rest of their journey.

Park and ride schemes are very popular in busy cities where parking is hard to find and extremely expensive. Park and ride buses or train services often offer express services taking a quicker route than other services and stopping at fewer stops.

Park and ride schemes have been introduced to cut congestion in major cities and to help to reduce pollution. Park and ride schemes can often save commuters time and money and offers a more pleasurable ride to the city than sitting for hours in rows of traffic.

Park and ride car parks are usually free of charge to those purchases a ticket on park and ride transport and are usually manned all day to make the site secure and encourage people to use the service.

Here are just a few cities which offer Park and Ride services, for more information on each of them just click through.

• Cambridge
• York
• Edinburgh
• Norwich