Download or read book The Impact of Parking Policies on the Long term Vitality of American Cities written by Norman Washington Garrick and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most municipalities in the U.S. set minimum parking requirements in local zoning and building codes (1). These policies assume that the appropriate supply of parking can be determined by estimating the potential demand and aiming to meet that demand. This view is reinforced through the Institute of Transportation Engineer's Parking Generation (Institute of Transportation Engineers 2010) and other similar guides that provide estimates of parking demand. However, it typically fails to account for the complex relationships between parking supply and demand. This failure is problematic for many well-documented reasons. Parking is expensive to provide, thereby driving up construction and rental prices; it consumes large amounts of space, thereby limiting development potential; and it often encourages driving (3). This last point--the influence of parking on automobile use--is the primary focus of this study. There is a substantial body of literature describing the many ways that the price and availability of parking influence automobile use and travel behavior. For example, the price of parking at work influences whether employees choose to drive alone (4–6). It also influences where and when people choose to travel for discretionary trips and where they choose to park once they arrive (7). Guaranteed parking at home has been shown to influence whether commuters drive to work, versus taking transit (8, 9). These studies suggest that minimum parking requirements, public parking provision, and other mechanisms that push citywide parking supplies upward could potentially cause citywide increases in automobile use over time. Prior research has shown that parking supply and automobile use are correlated across different cities and metropolitan areas (10, 11). Cities where parking has increased considerably over time also experienced marked increases in automobile use (12, 13)."--
Download or read book Parking written by Stephen G. Ison and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adds to the debate with respect to parking covering the issues of supply and demand, the various policy measures, namely economic, regulatory, regional wide or organisational in addition to carefully selected case studies, along with the future direction of parking policy.
Download or read book High Cost of Free Parking written by Donald Shoup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion, but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. The author proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking.
Download or read book The High Cost of Free Parking written by Donald Shoup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the American Planning Association’s most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people, and why American motor vehicles now consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. But it doesn't have to be this way. Shoup proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking – namely, charge fair market prices for curb parking, use the resulting revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove zoning requirements for off-street parking. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained economist and UCLA planning professor, will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Join the swelling ranks of Shoupistas by picking up this book today. You'll never look at a parking spot the same way again.
Download or read book Parking Management for Smart Growth written by Richard W. Willson and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to manage on- & off-street parking supplies to achieve Smart Growth. Offers tools & method for strategic parking so that communities can better use parking resources & avoid overbuilding parking. Explores new opportunities for making most from every parking space & new digital parking tools to increase user interaction & satisfaction.
Download or read book Rebuilding the American City written by David Gamble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five paradigms for redevelopment and a range of perspectives on the complexities, successes and challenges inherent to rebuilding American cities today. Rebuilding the American City is essential reading for practitioners and students in urban design, planning, and public policy looking for diverse models of urban transformation to create resilient urban cores.
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Download or read book Parking and the City written by Donald Shoup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage sprawl, degrade urban design, prohibit walkability, damage the economy, raise housing costs, and penalize people who cannot afford or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative thinking, Shoup recommended three parking reforms: (1) remove off-street parking requirements, (2) charge the right prices for on-street parking, and (3) spend the meter revenue to improve public services on the metered streets. Parking and the City reports on the progress that cities have made in adopting these three reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence that Shoup’s policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic but instead are practical and realistic. The good news about our decades of bad planning for parking is that the damage we have done will be far cheaper to repair than to ignore. The 51 chapters by 46 authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good. Read more about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51 by copying the link below into your browser. https://www.routledge.com/posts/13972
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Download or read book Travel Behaviour written by Eliahu Stern and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines papers from the fourth Network of European Communications and Transportation Activity Research (NECTAR) Euroconference, held in Israel in 1998, and additional works written specifically for this book. Thirteen contributions by 24 specialist from Europe, Israel and Canada explore issues relating to mobility and travel patterns; the relationship between housing and mobility, between infrastructure and mobility, and between parking and mobility; telecommunications and travel, especially travel to work; traffic and congestion; the non-traditional concept that "some congestion is good for the system"; a discussion of congestion on a European-wide scale; estimating the potential of traffic-calming measures; assessing the consequences of urban sprawl from the point of view of environmental and social sustainability; and key issues in modeling traffic behavioral responses. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Walkable City written by Jeff Speck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design
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