PARKING RESTRAINT BY PRICING

IN TOWN CENTERS EVERYWHERE MOTORISTS COMPLAIN OF A SHORT- AGE OF PARKING SPACE AND POLICE COMPLAIN OF THE DIFFICULTY OF ENFORCING PARKING REGULATIONS. THE DEMAND FOR AND SUPPLY OF PARKING MAY BE BALANCED BY RESTRAINING THE DEMAND AND/OR INCREASING THE SUPPLY. THE DEMAND MAY BE RESTRAINED BY QUEUING, RATIONING OR PRICING, OR A COMBINATION OF THESE MEANS. THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF PARKING RESTRAINT ARE NEITHER EQUALLY JUST NOR EQUALLY ENFORCEABLE AND, UNLESS CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE SATISFIED, INCREASING THE SUPPLY OF PARKING CAN BE A DISBENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY. PARKING RESTRAINT SOLELY BY PRICING IS PREFERED AS A METHOD MORE JUST AND MUCH MORE READILY ENFORCED THAN RESTRAINT INVOLVING TIME LIMITS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 138, No 4130, PP 26-29
• Corporate Authors:

  Surveyor-local Gov't Technology /UK

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• Authors:
  • Smith, E
• Publication Date: 1971-8-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Constraints; Parking; Parking demand; Parking regulations; Prices; Time management
• Old TRIS Terms: Time restriction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226095
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 1 1971 12:00AM