Parking

Cities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: 'It's about the climate, it's about walkability.'

Instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable, writes Phineas Harper.

“Keep on fighting, that’s the message – it’s worth it,” insists Michael Glotz-Richter, Senior Project Manager for Sustainable Mobility at the Municipality of Bremen. He would know. The idea of car sharing was one of the first things to hit his desk when he started working for the city back in 1990, and in 2020

Downloadable Excel tool

16 online calculators for housing, transit, social justice, etc.

Try GreenTRIP Connect: A free climate impact calculator for new homes in smart places, at affordable rents, designed with affordable healthy transportation choices.

Changes likely to sharpen political focus on choices about urban design and transport implied by Irish Government plans

But CARB sidestepped real commitments on reducing VMT, even though the agency has acknowledged for years that reducing driving is key to meeting climate goals

Where and how you live shapes your household’s contribution to climate change. Explore differences across the nation.

Car emissions are killing the planet. Can congestion pricing and better public transit end our love affair with automobiles?

The Department of Transportation’s Every Day Counts program once emphasized auto-oriented infrastructure. Now it's doing more to take climate and safety into account.

Finding space for nature in cities: the considerable potential of redundant car parking

As the effects of climate change begin to worsen, replacing heat-absorbing pavement with new trees can help make a difference toward expanding our urban canopy when space is limited.

State and local governments are rethinking land use policy to cut emissions and improve social outcomes.

See how a rental development eliminates parking.

Suburban sprawl adds to climate disruption by promoting driving and to accommodate commuters, some 30 percent of urban land is already devoted to parking. Even more spaces are often required when buildings are constructed or renovated. Now some cities and states, including California, are steering away from parking space mandates. Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss what parking reform may look like for cities.

Finally, people and housing needs are getting preference over the automobile.

Perhaps there just isn’t enough space on the road — or hours in the day — to drive any further.

Op-Ed: If we want to address barriers to access, and the public health and climate impacts of car-dependence, we must make it easier for non-drivers to get around our communities.

Also today: Los Angeles’s plan to boost public transit ridership, and inside the world’s strictest Covid Zero city.

“Like the Dutch have reclaimed land from the sea, we can reclaim land from parking”

Despite its environmental achievements, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act substitutes electric vehicles for a more holistic, climate-friendly approach to urban planning and design.

A bill intended to reduce the Golden State’s car-dependency and protect the climate is still sitting on his desk.

People must both drive less and switch to electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Fossil Fuels are not just warming the climate—they are endangering us.

The EU is set to miss its 2030 target to reduce transport-related noise pollution by miles.

Europe is engaged in an ongoing transportation revolution that aims to simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution and noise pollution, while increasing livability in urban areas, including the implementation of designs for “15-minute cities,” where daily necessities are located mere steps away from homes.

Barcelona’s public transport operator recently released some statistics regarding its positive impact on the city’s environment. The study asked the question – what life would be like in the Catalan c..