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Estimating Policy Effects on Reduced Vehicle Travel in Hawaii: A Technical Guide

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level State

State(s) Hawaii

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility

This report compares estimates of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in Hawaii under current conditions versus VMT when policies are implemented to manage travel demand. These policies include transportation demand management (employer-based programs that encourage employees to carpool,...

Contemporary Approaches to Parking Pricing: A Primer

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source U.S. Dept Of Transportation Federal Highway Administration

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

United States drivers were introduced to the concept of paid, on-street parking in 1935 when the first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City. In the ensuing decades little was done to improve the basic tools or processes of parking pricing. Many cities arbitrarily set fixed...

2021 Boston Ordinance Regulating Predatory Towing Practices

Type Ordinance

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) Massachusetts

Source Boston City Council

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Transportation & Mobility

This ordinance regulates the towing industry in Boston in order to prevent predatory towing practices that harm consumers. It establishes specific requirements for towing companies, including mandatory signage, reporting requirements, mandatory displaying of rates schedules, compensation...

SFpark: Putting Theory Into Practice

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

As a federally-funded demonstration, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) purposefully and openly shares information about implementing the SFpark pilot project that other cities might find useful as they consider how to manage parking. This book summarizes the...

Parking: A Major Barrier to Equitably Oriented Transit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source SPARCC

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Transportation & Mobility

Parking policies are an integral part of implementing equitable transit-oriented development (eTOD). Policies such as “free parking” (which increases housing and consumer costs), zoning and land use regulations that require an overabundancce of parking, and the application of suburban...

SFpark Pilot Project Evaluation Summary: A summary of the SFMTA's evaluation of the SFpark pilot project

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

SFpark was a federally-funded demonstration of a new approach to managing parking. It used better information, including real-time data where parking is available, and demand-responsive parking pricing to help make parking easier to find....

2011 Austin Ordinance 1006-053 Ordinance Establishing a Parking Benefit District

Type Ordinance

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source City of Austin

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance establishes a parking benefit district program. A parking benefit district is an area in which a percentage of the funds collected from a paid parking space is used to fund improvements that promote walking, cycling, and public transit within the district. This ordinance...

STALLED OUT: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town, County

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development

The Problem with Parking Minimums, analysis of parking in Chicago region, and policy toolkit. EVERY COMMUNITY NEEDS SOME PARKING, BUT WITH THE RIGHT SIZE OF SUPPLY, NEIGHBORHOODS CAN TILT THE SCALES TO DEDICATE MORE SPACE TO PEOPLE THAN TO CARS. THIS IN TURN WILL ALLOW US TO CREATE...

Estimating Parking Utilization in Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Washington, D.C.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Public Spaces, Data & Technology

The District Department of Transportation and the District of Columbia Office of Planning led an effort to develop an empirical model for parking utilization in Washington, D.C, and to apply that model to an interactive, web-based tool utilizing the model named ParkRight DC, to support...

The Power of Parking: A New Parking Paradigm for Kingston?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source City of Kingston

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

Too much parking takes up massive amounts of space, costs significant amounts of money, induces more driving, counteracts efforts to promote walking, biking, and public transit, increases GHG emissions, and overall makes a city less healthy and equitable. This report outlines the...

Who Pays for Parking: How Federal Tax Subsidies Jam More Cars into Congested Cities, and How Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

The federal tax benefit for commuter parking excludes the value of commuter parking provided by employers from the calculation of a worker’s taxable income. The “check” is bigger for people who make more money or work in the downtown areas of major cities, but the costs of the program...

Factors Affecting Residential Parking Occupancy in Madison, Wisconsin

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States, Wisconsin

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

To manage parking provisions and minimize the negative impacts of excess parking effectively, policy makers need a full understanding of how much existing parking is used and how factors affect its use. This paper presents a study of multi-family residential parking occupancy and...

2014 Houston Ordinance 591 Establishing a Parking Benefit District

Type Ordinance

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Texas

Source City of Houston

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

This ordinance designates Houston's Washington Avenue Corridor as a parking benefit district. All fees and revenues generated from the use of parking meters in a parking benefit district shall be used to fund administrative costs of parking meters (i.e. signage, enforcement, maintenance)...

Muskegon Off-Street Parking Standards

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) Michigan

Source City Of Muskegon

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

This document establishes vehicular and bicycle off-street parking standards. This code focuses heavily on incremental infill development, which will enable applicants and the City to strategically accommodate parking needs while not comprising the urban form desired within downtown...

Community Benefits Program for the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District Project

Type Ordinance

Year 2001

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety

The purpose of this Community Benefits Program for the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District Project is to provide for a coordinated effort between the Coalition and the Developer to maximize the benefits of the Project to the Figueroa Corridor community. This Community Benefits...

The New Transportation Demand Management: An Implementation Guide for City Officials

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Nelson Nygaard

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility

Transportation demand management (TDM) programs support and incentivize healthier, more environmentally sustainable transportation behaviors. This report provides an overview of the most prominent and effective options cities can take to advance TDM objectives; these include congestion...

goBerkeley Pilot Program Results and Next Steps

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City of Berkeley City Manager

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Energy, Environment & Natural Resources

The goBerkeley Pilot Program was launched in Downtown Berkeley, the Elmwood, and Southside/Telegraph in July 2013 with 3 overarching goals: to support economic vitality, to reduce congestion and emissions and to assess the feasibility of expanding the program beyond the 2-year pilot...

Cutting the Cost of Parking Requirements

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Access Magazine

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Housing, Public Safety

This brief examines the detrimental effects of minimum parking requirements and advocates for parking management reforms. Minimum parking requirements increase costs, traffic congestion, pollution, and limit affordable housing development. The brief also recommends the reduction...

Voting is the Easy Part: Why LA’s Measure M Hasn’t Led to Greater Transit Use

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Transit Center

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Finance & Procurement

In 2016, citizens of Los Angeles voted in favor of Measure M, a ½-cent sales tax increase that will raise $120 billion over forty years for transit expansion and maintenance, and traffic and street improvements. Despite this, transit ridership in Los Angeles has continued to fall....

Downtown Parking Management Strategy: Saint Paul, MN

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Minnesota

Source City of St. Paul

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

The Downtown Saint Paul Parking Management Strategy is a six-month effort that documents current parking activities, examines expected future parking, and recommends a series of strategies to achieve City goals. In order to establish a baseline of the current state of on-street, off-street,...

Effects of Parking Provision on Automobile Use in Cities: Inferring Causality

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source State Smart Transportation Initiative

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility

Many cities include minimum parking requirements in their zoning codes and provide ample parking for public use. However, parking is costly to provide and encourages increased automobile use, which is linked to traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and negative health and...

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