Parking Management Principles
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These ten general principles can help guide planning
decision to support parking management.
1. Consumer choice. People should have viable parking and
travel options.
2. User information. Motorists should have information on
their parking and travel options.
3. Sharing. Parking facilities should serve multiple users
and destinations.
4. Efficient utilization. Parking facilities should be sized
and managed so spaces are frequently
occupied.
5. Flexibility. Parking plans should accommodate uncertainty
and change.
6. Prioritization. The most desirable spaces should be
managed to favor higher-priority uses.
7. Pricing. As much as possible, users should pay directly
for the parking facilities they use.
8. Peak management. Special efforts should be made to deal
with peak-demand.
9. Quality vs. quantity. Parking facility quality should be
considered as important as quantity, including
aesthetics, security, accessibility and user information.
10. Comprehensive analysis. All significant costs and
benefits should be considered in parking planning. Parking Management:
Strategies, Evaluation and Planning
Parking Management Benefits
? Facility cost savings. Reduces costs to
governments, businesses, developers and consumers.
? Improved quality of service. Many
strategies improve user quality of service by providing better
information, increasing consumer options, reducing
congestion and creating more attractive
facilities.
? More flexible facility location and
design. Parking management gives architects, designers and
planners more ways to address parking requirements.
? Revenue generation. Some management
strategies generate revenues that can fund parking facilities,
transportation improvements, or other important projects.
? Reduces land consumption. Parking
management can reduce land requirements and so helps to
preserve greenspace and other valuable ecological, historic
and cultural resources.
? Supports mobility management. Parking
management is an important component of efforts to
encourage more efficient transportation patterns, which
helps reduce problems such as traffic
congestion, roadway costs, pollution emissions, energy
consumption and traffic accidents.
? Supports Smart Growth. Parking
management helps create more accessible and efficient land use
patterns, and support other land use planning objectives.
? Improved walkability. By
allowing more clustered development and buildings located closer to
sidewalks and streets, parking management helps create more
walkable communities.
? Supports transit. Parking management
supports transit oriented development and transit use.
? Reduced stormwater management costs,
water pollution and heat island effects. Parking
management can reduce total pavement area and incorporate
design features such as landscaping and
shading that reduce stormwater flow, water pollution and
solar heat gain.
? Supports equity objectives. Management
strategies can reduce the need for parking subsidies,
improve travel options for non-drivers, provide financial
savings to lower-income households, and
increase housing affordability.
? More livable communities.
Parking management can help create more attractive and efficient urban
environments by reducing total paved areas, allowing more
flexible building design, increasing
walkability and improving parking facility design.