Parking

Investigating emerging transportation services is critical to forecasting mode choice and providing appropriate infrastructure. One such infrastructure is parking, as parking demand may shift with the availability of ride-hailing services. This study uses ethnographic methods—complemented with passenger surveys collected when driving for Uber and Lyft in the Denver, Colorado, region—to gather quantitative and qualitative data on ride-hailing and analyze the impacts of ride-hailing on parking, including changes in parking demand and parking as a reason to deter driving. The study also examin...

As the City of Falls Church moves toward accommodating car-alternative transportation, City officials are following the consensus among urban planners that investing in a public parking garage is passé. But does a government-level disinterest in building a public utility represent a budding trend of disinterest in residents’ own garages? The […]

Driving is ruining our lives. Only drastic action will kick our dependency, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Increasing parking fees and fines could encourage people to use mass transit, research suggests.

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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer proposed a set of reforms to the city's parking requirements Friday, allowing the construction of housing projects without parking spaces as long as they're close to a planned or currently-existing transit stop.

With Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles moving forward with land-use reforms, the thinking behind how American cities work could soon change.

Curb space in city centers is a scarce resource. And as demand for this space increases — with the rise of urban deliveries, shared…

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It was a huge success: Parking spots are now bike lanes, transit is fast and easy, and the streets (and local businesses) are full of people.

In 2012, Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability set out to answer a simple, urgent question: how much do apartment rents go up…

The parking benefits that churches, synagogues, hospitals, colleges and other nonprofits offer their employees are suddenly taxable.

Cars are, and will for the foreseeable future continue to be, an incredibly important component of our society. In new research Guang Tian looks at the models used by transport planners to determin…