Street parking takes up space and incentivizes driving. New curb management companies are trying to help cities better use this space

To fight climate change, cities need to be designed with much more walking, biking, and public transit use in mind.

With the pandemic opening up streets, Donald Shoup and his followers say it’s time to stop subsidizing drivers at the expense of everyone else.

Part two of the Taming Traffic webinar series will focus on the critical role that parking management plays in urban traffic reduction. Parking management ha...

In recent years, cities across the United States have adopted a range of parking policy reforms to manage the existing parking supply, reduce traffic, cut pollution, and bolster city finances. Reforms include eliminating minimum parking requirements for development projects, enabling developments and businesses to share parking facilities, and using technology solutions to efficiently manage the supply of on-street parking. This interactive report allows users to access information on policies from cities across the U.S. A searchable, filterable database includes a range of recent policy examples that represent significant shifts from the status quo depending on the local context.

Donald Shoup, the author of the seminal planning book "The High Cost of Free Parking," explains how parking requirements have poisoned cities and why poor planning is to blame.

Parking requirements attack the nature of the city itself, subordinating density to the needs of the car.

Los Angeles has the space to solve it's housing and transportation problems, it just needs right priorities. LA County has more than 110,000 acres of parking, enough to pave over Manhattan 7.5 times. Turning 10% of these parking spaces into homes could easily satisfy the current 550,000 home deficit for low-income renters. More than $1 Billion is spent every year just building new parking in Los Angeles.

Car culture in the U.S. spurred a parking boom since the early 1900s. As a result, cities are chock full of parking lots and garages. Cheddar explains why this happened and the often unseen damage it's doing to our urban centers.

A resource to help parking reformers find examples of parking policy reforms from all over the world.

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Underutilized parking lots are a costly waste. By managing parking more efficiently, cities can free up land to house people rather than cars.

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Season 1 Episode 43: A DISCUSSION W/ DONALD SHOUP ABOUT HIS THREE FOUNDATIONAL PARKING REFORMS In this episode, John has a fascinating conversation with Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA about how strategic parking policy reforms can help create healthy, vibrant communities.

When you zip into a space and don’t pay for it, somebody is still footing the bill. It’s not just somebody else – it’s you. You’re paying for the traffic jams and pollution you’re getting stuck with.

Many transportation problems are virtually unsolvable without efficient road and parking pricing. When people say "I oppose road tolls," they are really saying "I support traffic congestion." Here

The real parking problem is that there's too much of it and people expect it to be cheap and widely available. This has fundamentally changed cities.

How will we ensure there’s enough parking if we don’t require property owners to provide any? There’s a simple answer to this question.

Players should pay if they land on board game square, says Professor Donald Shoup

In an interview, the guru of progressive parking policy reflects on his decades of research and writing, which transformed how cities look at the curb.

San Francisco's SFPark trial has raised the profile of performance-based pricing for on-street parking (see a video on this at the end of t...

Waste of money. Waste of space.

Advocating for progressive parking policy since 2015

Promoting better local parking policy all over the world

Excellent example of handout for parking reform basics. Focused on Chicago.

How obscure parking rules have misshaped our communities and opportunities for better options. [long] Garages and driveways are the primary entrance to this Tigard, OR apartment complex. Photo credit Brett VA. Parking rules buried in city land-use codes have surprisingly pernicious effects. Requirements that builders provide ample quotas of off-street parking spaces worsen traffic, multiply collisions, push up housing prices, dampen business profitability, amplify sprawl, and pollute both air and water. Parking rules are a surprisingly potent hidden force shaping—or misshaping—our communiti...

Last week, San Francisco and Minneapolis struck down bans on car-free housing. What that could mean for cities in Washington and Oregon.