Parking

Cities must manage all the competing uses for limited roadside space to avoid congestion and maximise efficiency. And that begins with reliable data.

Salt Lake City is proposing new parking requirements for many neighborhoods throughout town. That means more parking for some, less parking for others.

It’s a couple of years in the offing, but parking at the often-congested Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport should improve with the opening of a new 5,000-space ramp in 2020. The Metropolit…

It's the largest contract awarded in the commission's 74-year history.

Parking has become tight in the North Loop area as the number of surface lots has dwindled.

The number of monthly permit holders has plummeted by 82 percent at Des Moines' park-and-ride ramp downtown.

New pay stations and parking fees are coming to downtown Davenport.

Residents are often offered on-street parking at a fraction of the market price which may cause excess car ownership. However, residential parking cos…

The parking garage could add anywhere between 400 to 600 parking spaces.

In Koreatown, one of L.A. County's densest areas, the rhythms of daily life revolve around the scarcity of spaces.

San Diego is on track to eliminate parking requirements within a half-mile of major public transit stops

If you think traffic in city centers is bad now, just wait until self-driving cars emerge on the scene, cruising around to avoid paying hefty downtown parking fees.

Saving space, reducing costs and a pleasant user experience – parking doesn’t get much better than this. Cityscapes around the world are changing,...

Parking garages run rampant, especially in Los Angeles. According to Gensler's co-CEO Andy Cohen there are 500 million parking spaces in the United States. “Think about all that real estate, all that attention to parking, that could be revitalized and reused for the future of our cities.”...

It doesn’t look like much from the outside. But as they say, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. And more interesting design flashes take over inside The Summit, A Dolce Hotel, featuring a

The Broadway Autopark, a 44-unit residential complex, opened on April 1. The apartments were built into the former Knightley's Parking Garage at 303 S. Broadway in downtown Wichita. The parking garage has been converted into apartments.

Parking takes up an extraordinary amount of space in cities. These projects are making it easier to convert it to something more useful than car storage.

In the beginning of 2019, the City of Rio de Janeiro approved new building codes to restrict off-street parking and promote non-motorized transport by removing parking minimums, making Rio the first Brazilian city to pass parking legislation. This ruling comes after years of advocacy by ITDP Brazil, such as the 2017 study on Rio de […]

A year ago, Uber and the City of Cincinnati announced the Cincinnati Mobility Lab, a multi-year partnership that seeks to develop…

The District Detroit has gotten a lot of critical media coverage. It’s pretty clear that the renderings portrayed when the project launched haven’t matched the reality. Instead of city-like streets full of life and teaming with offices, retail and residential — it’s a sea of surface parking lots. Although the Ilitch organization has been getting …

The Council’s twin bills to reserve one side of every residential block for residents only are well-intentioned, but overly simplistic solutions to the complex problem in DC’s Residential Permit Parking (RPP) system. How could we do better?

The District’s one-size-fits-all approach to residential parking results in inefficient allocation of a scarce resource. Tailoring prices by neighborhood for the city’s residential parking permit (RPP) program could make the system more responsive to the unique needs of individual communities. When DC introduced its RPP system in the 1970s, it was designed…

Nothing in urban life seems to be as contentious as on-street parking in DC. One answer may be a Dutch auction, which allows residents to set the price of parking, making parking more responsive to demand. In DC, residential parking permits (RPPs) are sold to residents well below market rates, meaning people have an incentive to use more space than they may need. This restricts…

A new survey from DDOT suggests many DC residents are willing to support more expensive residential street parking if it makes finding a spot near their home easier. Many agree that DC’s Resident Parking Permit (RPP) program isn’t meeting the city’s needs, and should be be updated. But conventional wisdom holds that most substantive changes, especially…

The Prince George’s County Council recently discussed legislation designed to better implement residential parking permits. The bill is a positive step towards better managing on-street parking for the county's growing communities and neighborhoods, but one challenge for any such legislation is addressing how residents perceive property rights, ownership of street space, and what’s “fair.”

Sandpoint, Idaho eliminated its downtown parking minimums 10 years ago. Since then, at least four projects that could not otherwise have happened have brought new vibrancy and economic productivity to downtown.