Acadia National Park, located on Maine's Mount Desert Island, attracts over 2 million visitors each year (National Park Service, 2009). To protect the park's natural resources and provide for superior visitor experiences, the National Park Service established the fare-free Island Explorer bus service in 1999 to transport visitors around the park and to surrounding destinations on Mount Desert Island. This service has seen a steady increase in annual ridership, and will further expand in the future with the completion of an off-island park-and-ride transit hub called the Acadia Gateway Center. The facility would serve as a place for day visitors to park and ride the Island Explorer buses on to Mount Desert Island. Thirty-nine semi-structured interviews and 191 surveys were administered to Mount Desert Island day visitors to determine incentives and disincentives for using this proposed facility. Both quantitative and qualitative results show that the most important factor in a visitor's decision to ride or not ride the Island Explorer is the frequency of buses and the associated length of wait for a bus. Other important factors that emerged from this study such as routing, bus configuration, crowding, driving stress, and environmental values are investigated from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Visitor trip and visit characteristics were examined and significant differences in intention to park at the Acadia Gateway Center and ride the Island Explorer were found. Repeat visitors to Acadia are less likely to park and ride than first-time visitors, and Maine residents are less likely to park and ride than visitors from out of state. Visitors who spend a longer amount of time on Mount Desert Island or lodge nearer to the park are more likely to park and ride than those spending less time or lodging further away.;This thesis is written in the format of a journal article to be submitted to the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration (JPRA). It is formatted in accordance with JPRA article submission guidelines and the American Psychological Association (APA) manuscript submission format. More data was collected than was used for the article; complete questionnaire results are presented in Appendix A. A frequency table summarizing codes derived from qualitative interviews is presented in Appendix B.
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机译：位于缅因州芒特迪德岛的阿卡迪亚国家公园每年吸引超过200万游客（国家公园管理局，2009）。为了保护公园的自然资源并提供出色的游客体验，国家公园管理局（National Park Service）于1999年建立了免费的Island Explorer巴士服务，以将游客运送到公园各处以及到达沙漠山岛的周围目的地。这项服务的年度载客量一直在稳定增长，并且随着名为Acadia Gateway Center的离岛公园和骑行中转枢纽的建成，将来会进一步扩大。该设施将成为一日游游客停车和乘坐Island Explorer巴士前往沙漠山岛的地方。对沙漠山岛一日游的游客进行了39次半结构化访谈和191次调查，以确定使用此拟议设施的激励措施和不利因素。定量和定性结果均表明，游客决定乘坐或不乘坐Island Explorer的最重要因素是公交车的频率以及相关的公交车等待时间。从定量和定性的角度研究了这项研究中出现的其他重要因素，例如路线，公交车配置，拥挤，驾驶压力和环境价值。检查了游客的旅行和访问特征，发现在Acadia门户中心停车和乘坐Island Explorer的意图有显着差异。回头客到阿卡迪亚的游客比第一次来访的游客停车和骑行的可能性更低，缅因州的居民比外州游客的停车和骑行的可能性更低。在沙漠山岛上停留时间较长或在公园附近住宿的游客比在公园停留时间较短或住宿时间更长的游客更有可能停车和乘车。本文以期刊论文的形式撰写到公园和娱乐管理杂志（JPRA）。按照JPRA文章提交指南和美国心理学会（APA）手稿提交格式进行格式化。收集到的数据比文章使用的要多。完整的问卷调查结果列在附录A中。频率表汇总了定性访谈得出的代码，列于附录B中。
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