This publication presents guidelines for improving downtown parking. It explains how to “think right” about downtown parking; how to “plan a total parking system” that meets all needs; how to get the “right amount of parking” and how to define your downtown “parking goals” and shape “parking plans” to reach them. In addition, this report aims to alert downtowners to essential “new ideas and concepts” such as efficient shared-parking, standards for calculating demand, organizing free parking districts, etc. Another basic idea covered relates to “making all parking more productive” by parking system management. Other topics covered include relationship to transit, handling heavy employee parking loads, metering or not metering, and the “ideal” parking system.

Keywords: parking, transportation demand management

Keywords: transport planning, transportation demand management

The Texas legislature relied on this analysis of zip-code pricing (red lining) and uninsured cars in passing the “cents-per-mile choice” law to cure these and other maladies produced by fixed annual rates per-car. As introduced, the legislation drafted to NOW's specifications made the cents-per-mile option a “mandatory offer” to all customers by all companies after a two year phase-in period. As passed, the law makes offering cents-per-mile rates as an alternative to annual rates per car voluntary for companies. Consumers need to demand that companies take the cure: measure the miles of protection they sell for the customers who want it.

Keywords: transportation demand management, insurance

Keywords: transportation demand management

Some interesting notes, especially relevant for my work with Vancouver's Downtown Transportation Plan. They discuss a consensus-building approach they used in discussions over the plan, bringing stakeholders together in an effort to find some common ground.

Keywords: transportation demand management, transport planning, canada

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Keywords: transport planning, congestion pricing, transportation demand management, transit, land use transport link, urban form, induced travel, zoning

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Keywords: transport planning, congestion pricing, transportation demand management, transit, land use transport link, urban form, induced travel, zoning

Keywords: transportation demand management, transport planning

Keywords: transportation demand management

Keywords: transportation demand management, parking

Land-use impacts on travel demand and vehicle emissions is emerging as a topic of major interest, as several regions around the nation struggle to demonstrate conformance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA). The implementation of the CAAA threatens the withholding of federal transportation funding from several regions unable to demonstrate the ability to meet milestone reductions in emissions required by the CAAA. A case study of a network of policies emerging in Washington State as part of growth management efforts is presented. These policies, when coupled with federal clean air (CAAA) and surface transportation legislation (ISTEA), provide a framework for the implementation of land-use strategies that are associated with less vehicular travel and emissions. A review of the land development and transportation investment policies espoused in newly adopted local comprehensive plans in the Central Puget Sound Region of Washington State are presented. This review indicates a shift toward planning solutions that could result in reduced vehicle emissions if implemented.

Keywords: transport planning, transportation demand management, urban form, climate mitigation

Keywords: transport planning, transportation demand management

Keywords: transport planning, transit, transportation demand management, rail

Keywords: transportation demand management, transport planning

Parking's broad influence over travel in the modern urban setting is discussed, including recent changes in urban priorities and transport policies created by contemporary concerns for environment, energy, and air pollution. Downtown parking issues and options are reviewed. They include questions related to how parking affects and is affected by many other factors, including community development, environemental concerns, transportation goals, existing parking facilities and street systems, urban and suburban transit stops and the like. The impacts of increasing or decreasing automobile access are depicted. Three basic city center types are identified and described: extensively transit-oriented, intermediate transit use, and predominantly automobile oriented. The basic problems posed by commuter parking are covered, as are options for dealing with them. Four options for downtown parking and transportation policy are presented: trend projection, maintain present auto-transit balance, all future growth by transit, and reduce the number of automobiles accumulated downtown. Air quality considerations are mentioned. Parking supply and demand can be adjusted by stabilizing downtown parking supply, revising parking rates to encourage short- term use, and implementing new zoning policies to limit parking. Each option is discussed. Urban parking policies require community participation. The groups and concerns involved are reviewed. Parking guidelines are suggested for major transit corridors. Recommendations are made on issues to be considered in forming parking policies and programs in the future.

Keywords: parking, transportation demand management, transport planning

Keywords: transportation demand management, canada, energy

Keywords: transportation demand management, finance, environmental economics

A very interesting read. Litman raises a number of issues associated with housing that I hadn't considered-my first reaction is to question Vancouver's downtown development patterns. Are parking requirements responsible for the tower fad, by making townhouse and four-story apartment development uneconomic for developers? On interesting bit of trivia: curb cuts reduce onstreet parking capacity. His parking management solutions are quite valuable and innovative ideas, and the studies he cites in Victoria and Mississauga are useful; I should follow up on all of his references. Of the management solutions, the two ideas I found novel were: shared parking, where apartments and businesses share spaces due to opposite peak demand times - very practical for residential downtowns; transportation management associations, where a neighbourhood organisation is formed to trade parking in a neighbourhood. I was initially convinced by his arguments about reducing developer incentive to create low-income housing, but I'm now a little skeptical; figure 12, in particular, says to me that in a scenario where 0 parking spaces are required, developers will have a huge incentive to produce high income housing, since the relative profit difference will be so much greater. Of course, this ignores the entire demand side of the equation. Overall, I think more analysis is needed to determine the real effect on developers.

Keywords: parking, urban planning, transportation demand management, equity

Keywords: transportation demand management, equity, insurance

Keywords: transportation demand management, bicycle planning, pedestrian planning, transit, urban form, parking, urban economics, finance, prioritisation, accessibility

An interesting article on the crisis in transport planning, with some details of new ways of thinking emerging. “Central to this rethinking is the wider shift away from `predict and provide' planning towards demand-management which is slowly emerging across various infrastructure sectors. The common thread linking these diverse services is the attempts by network operators to work with users to reduce demand on the most stressed parts of the network through the introduction of traffic calming and pedestrianisation measures; advanced information technology-based systems to get the msot out of the existing infrastructure; road pricing; and a reduction in the building of new roads.” Their article is followed by comment from David Banister, Michael Breheny, and Bert van Wee, and closes with comments from the authors.

Keywords: transport planning, transportation demand management

Keywords: parking, canada, transportation demand management

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Keywords: urban economics, transport planning, urban planning, congestion pricing, transportation demand management, transit, land use transport link, zoning

This paper was presented at the 'Cost-Effective Traffic Operations Through Innovation' session. The importance of parking policies as complementary policies to an overall urban transportation strategy has been acknowledged as a key component in influencing both transit use and ridesharing. The main focus of this article is the relationship between downtown long-stay parking supply and transit use, and the implications of this relationship for developing downtown parking policies. Based on a survey of Canadian cities, it was determined that peak hour transit modal split to downtown areas is inversely proportional to the ratio of long-stay parking stalls per downtown employee. The analysis indicated that this relationship is highly statistically significant for Canadian and American cities. The implication of the findings is that the main choice with respect to establishing a long-stay parking policy is directly linked to the modal split goal. Thus, policy makers should first establish a desirable and achievable modal split goal and then establish a long-stay parking strategy which would match the supply of long-stay parking with the modal split goal.

Keywords: parking, transportation demand management, canada

Parking policies can complement an overall urban transportation strategy by influencing both transit use and ridesharing. This article presents a study of the downtown parking supply and transportation policies of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in relation to other Canadian cities. The focus of the study is the relationship between downtown parking supply and transit use. In a study survey, a strong relationship is found between peak-period modal split to public transit and the supply of downtown parking. Specifically, the proportion of downtown commuters using public transportation is inversely proportional to the ratio of parking stalls per downtown employee.

Keywords: parking, transportation demand management, canada

Keywords: transport planning, transportation demand management

Keywords: transportation demand management

Keywords: transportation demand management, transport planning

Keywords: parking, transportation demand management

Keywords: parking, canada, transportation demand management

An interesting read. It has a lot of useful Vancouver context, in more detail than other similar reports that I've read. That said, it makes a classic planning mistake: they make some decisions by surveying neighbouring jurisdictions and looking at averages.

Keywords: parking, transport planning, canada, transportation demand management

Keywords: transportation demand management, transport planning

Keywords: transportation demand management, transport planning