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Car parking spaces occupy significant areas land within cities and, in many areas, is often provided to motorists free of charge or at low cost. This …

Harvard Medical School study comparing hospital car parks in 2019 to 2018 finds spike in October

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This trend is expected to grow significantly with the advent of autonomous driving, which might render on-demand mobility predominant. Recent studies have started looking at expected parking reductions with on-demand mobility, but a systematic framework is still lacking. In this paper, we apply a data-driven methodology based on shareability networks to address what we call the “minimum parking” problem: what is...

(2021). The Width and Value of Residential Streets. Journal of the American Planning Association. Ahead of Print.

The projects will be funded by the Southern California Association of Governments.

Written by University of Illinois at Chicago students Maggie Kochman, Zane Jacobson, and Bobby Siemiaszko. From January through May 2021, three students at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s…

In the pursuit of sustainability, the concept of ‘car-reduced neighborhoods’ promises to decrease car ownership and increase car-independent mobility.…

(2021). What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices. Mobilities. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform. Journal of the American Planning Association. Ahead of Print.

What if cities and communities rethought parking policy and designed it not only to serve transportation goals but also equity goals? Leading with equity creates better transportation options for all. It also opens up new ways of looking at traditional problems and solutions. This includes the commo

Strategies > Transportation Demand Management > Parking Availability and Pricing

By Karen Chapple, Ph.D., Dori Ganetsos, and Emmanuel Lopez

TransForm analyzed plans for housing at several urban rail stations, offering ideas about how to best achieve goals on reducing single occupant vehicle trips to transit stations.