DOWNTOWN PARKING POLICY ANALYSIS
Cities have a substantial investment in downtown parking facilities which should be managed carefully since parking is a limited resource intended to meet diverse needs. This article outlines a framework for recognizing parking policy alternatives and evaluating their effectiveness or desirability for solving parking problems. Interest Group and Achievement Matrices are recommended in this article because they are beneficial to the policy analyst. Three broad strategies can be followed: Reduce parking demand; increase parking supply; or improve parking management. Evaluation is the process of organizing, examining and judging the consequences of the alternative policies. Trade-offs can be made explicit by comparing alternatives in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. Traditional cost-benefit analysis (where the common unit of measure for all impacts is dollars and a discount rate is selected) is generally not appropriate for downtown parking policy analysis.
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Corporate Authors:
Eno Transportation Foundation
P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
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Authors:
- Kuner, R
- Publication Date: 1983-10
Media Info
- Features: Tables;
- Pagination: p. 559-566
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Serial:
- Transportation Quarterly
- Volume: 37
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
- ISSN: 0278-9434
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Analysis; Central business districts; Parking; Policy making; Traffic restraint; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
- Old TRIS Terms: Analytical method
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00382316
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-036 247
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 30 1984 12:00AM