Do Cities Have Too Much Parking? [Brief]

Details

• Creators:
  Schwartz, Ellen
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Parking Policy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Parking
  • Infrastructure
  • Driving behavior
  • Residential areas
  • Research
  • Urban areas
  • Housing
  • Climate
  • Literature reviews
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; California
• Edition:
  Brief
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Transportation Studies
• Abstract:
  Urban land is a limited resource, and allocating it to infrastructure devoted to storing motor vehicles — parking — reduces the amount of space available for other priorities, including housing, economic development, and green space. This issue brief synthesizes research on the large share of land devoted to parking in urban areas, the large share of parking spaces that go unused, and the role of minimum parking requirements in creating this oversupply of parking. Eliminating minimum parking requirement scan curb excess parking supply and give cities greater flexibility to allow more space to be dedicated to land uses that support their other goals.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/91223/dot_91223_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 328.66 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e255203a6b428f2708db30a11d972af4e4f7762664bb87afb241c2c4233f77163ebbd96a5dc5ac1b8abbfe792b2803f585bcaf5fbd0846f8545666f84b6107aa