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