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Large vehicles and unsafe streets are killing too many people, including 5-year-old Allison Hart. Now, her mother is fighting for safer streets.

A new case study suggests half of Melbourne’s street parking could be converted to garages, which would free space for new green areas.

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.

TfL has published data from its Travel in London report, which outlines mobility trends in the UK capital over the last three-years.

Nashville is the latest city to enact a substantive change to the parking requirements set by the city’s zoning code—doing away with parking minimums and setting parking maximums in the city’s Urban Zoning Overlay.

Anchorage is the latest city to enact sweeping parking reforms, in another blow to the car-centric status quo of planning.

It was a moment of rare unanimity on the Anchorage Assembly: By a 12-0 vote, the Assembly repealed minimum parking mandates, meaning that new construction in much of Anchorage will not have to provide a specific number of parking places. The ordinance was sponsored by conservative Kevin Cross, and liberals Daniel Volland and Forrest Dunbar. […]

Parking mandates are an obstacle to sustainable communities: remove them and more apartments will be built at the expense of space for cars. But we need to do more.

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.

Progressives and conservatives find common ground on easing regulations on housing and business development.

In 2018, Milan launched its Open Squares initiative, using paint and planters, benches and ping-pong tables to reclaim public space.

Why other rich nations have surpassed the U.S. in protecting pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.

Minimum off-street parking requirements have created a host of problems, leading cities and states to rethink this policy. The wave of reform is just beginning, because the oversupply from a century of misguided parking policy is likely to persist.

Cars? In this economy? Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.

The company once claimed that ride-hail services and robotaxis would make personal cars obsolete. Mounting losses have prompted a rethink.

Download a PDF of "Dynamic Curbside Management: Keeping Pace with New and Emerging Mobility and Technology in the Public Right-of-Way, Part 1: Dynamic Curbside Management Guide and Part 2: Conduct of Research Report" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free.

Sledge’s bill would limit how much parking new developments can provide

If our goal is to build abundant and affordable housing, then we must align our policies to encourage neighborhoods where people can live without a car if they choose to.

Honoring Donald Shoup

Circling endlessly for a car park and sitting in traffic every day are brutal taxes of a different kind.

The move is a sizeable shift away from prioritizing space for vehicles in Nashville's zoning code, potentially freeing up land for uses like housing.

"I'm certainly interested in having the conversation to see what the possibilities are," Johnson said Monday.

Despite claims that lowering speed limits will harm the economy, evidence suggests journey times are hardly affected. And beyond reducing the road toll, there are health and climate benefits, too.

The busy, roundabout intersection is a pain point for drivers and pedestrians alike.

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