Parking management for smart growth txt
Richard W. Willson.
- 232 p. ill. 25cm book
Includes index.
Contents: About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: What Is a Parking Space Worth? -- Parking as a Contested Space -- Problems of Unmanaged Parking -- Understanding Parking Behavior -- Strategic Parking Management and the Future -- Key Terms -- Map of the Book -- Conclusion -- 2. Parking Management Techniques -- Origins of Parking Management -- Basic Methods of Parking Management -- A Framework for Organizing Parking Management Measures Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Parking ManagementParking Management Gone Wrong -- Conclusion -- 3. Creating a Parking Management Strategy -- Planning and Strategy in Parking Management -- Parking Management Stakeholders -- Process for Developing a Parking Management Strategy -- Process Pays -- 4. Managing an Integrated, Financially Sustainable Parking District(by Rick Williams) -- Management Principles -- Organizational Structure: Administration and Management -- Defining the Role of On-Street Parking -- Relationship of On- and Off-Street Parking Assets Rate-Setting Policy and ProtocolsMeasuring Performance -- Identifying and Communicating the Integrated Parking System -- New Technologies -- Financial Analysis and Management -- Conclusion -- 5. Best Practice Tools and Strategies -- Best Practice: Individual Tools -- Best Practice: Comprehensive and Coordinated Approaches -- Global Perspectives -- Best Practice Conclusions -- 6. Implementing Strategic Parking Management -- Politics and Community Participation -- Setting Prices -- Implementing Shared Parking Agreements Accessible Parking and the Abuse of Disabled Parking PlacardsMeter Equipment Pitfalls -- Failure to Implement Coordinated Measures -- Parking Enforcement -- Greening Parking Operations -- Conclusion -- 7. Parking Management for Smart Growth -- A Paradigm Shift -- Why Not Rely on Pricing Alone? -- Strategic Parking Management and Smart Growth -- It�s Time -- References -- Index --
The average parking space requires approximately 300 square feet of asphalt. That's the size of a studio apartment in New York and enough room to hold 10 bicycles. Space devoted to parking in growing urban and suburban areas is highly contested-not only from other uses from housing to parklets, but between drivers who feel entitled to easy access. Without parking management, parking is a free-for-all-a competitive sport-with arbitrary winners and losers. Historically drivers have been the overall winners in having free or low-cost parking, while an oversupply of parking has created a hostile environment for pedestrians. In the last 50 years, parking management has grown from a minor aspect of local policy and regulation to a central position in the provision of transportation access. The higher densities, tight land supplies, mixed land uses, environmental and social concerns, and alternative transportation modes of Smart Growth demand a different approach-actively managed parking. This book offers a set of tools and a method for strategic parking management so that communities can better use parking resources and avoid overbuilding parking. It explores new opportunities for making the most from every parking space in a sharing economy and taking advantage of new digital parking tools to increase user interaction and satisfaction. Examples are provided of successful approaches for parking management-from Pasadena to London. At its essence, the book provides a path forward for strategic parking management in a new era of tighter parking supplies