Many jurisdictions have vehicle travel reduction targets. Integrating Smart Growth policies can help achieve these reductions as well as other planning goals.
“Future-Proofing” Buildings to Account for Autonomous Vehicles
As self-driving vehicles become more ubiquitous, facility designers and owners will need to develop strategies that cover a wide range of possibilities.
We Require Too Much Parking. These Boston Planners Found Out Exactly How Much.
It’s easy to claim “We have too much parking” but to prove it? These Boston area planners were up to the challenge, surveying over 200 apartment buildings’ parking lots. What they found… might not shock you.
Emeryville may scrap parking requirements for all new buildings to discourage car use
In an effort to encourage people to ditch their cars, Emeryville may scrap a long-standing requirement that developers provide ample off-street parking spaces for their buildings — if any at …
Cities that require builders to provide off-street parking trigger more traffic, sprawl, and housing unaffordability. But we can break the vicious cycle.
Massachusetts telecommuting tax credit would be first in the nation, governor says
To reduce congestion, Governor Charlie Baker is proposing up to $50 million in employer credits for letting employees work from home or at least farther from the office.
What does a world without parking minimums look like?
Building our cities around cars took decades. Undoing it will also take decades, but I don't think it will be necessarily as hard to undo as it was to do.
D.C. tests system that allows delivery drivers to reserve space at the curb
The 12-week study comes as the District and other cities seek more efficient ways to use curb space — their hottest real estate — amid an explosion in ride-hailing trips, online shopping and on-demand food deliveries.
Uber, Lyft and the A-Line train have changed the game at DIA — shelving plans for more airport parking
The rise of alternatives has upended ground transportation at Denver International Airport, with ride-sharing services, the 3-year-old commuter rail line and competing lots reducing on-site parking…