ASSESSMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD PARKING PERMIT PROGRAMS AS TRAFFIC RESTRAINT MEASURES

Residential parking permit programs have become an important component of traffic restraint schemes designed to improve the social and environmental characteristics of neighborhood areas. By restricting nonresident and commercial vehicle parking, such programs are effective in controlling the use of the neighborhood street network; however, these programs could also have many other effects that were never anticipated. This paper assesses the impact of neighborhood parking permit programs on economic, system efficiency, mobility, equity, environmental, and amenity objectives. Experiences with recently implemented permit programs are used to illustrate these impacts. A conceptual perspective on how such programs fit into a regional transportation system is also provided. This paper concludes that residential parking permit programs are generally beneficial to the neighborhoods in which they are implemented and have no discernible impact at the regional level, if their implementation considers that the result might be a simple redistribution of unwanted traffic rather than its absolute reduction. Finally, long-term evaluations of permit programs is recommended to discern those impacts that can only be identified over longer periods of time. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Meyer, Michael D
  • McShane, Mary
• Conference:
  • 60th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1981-1-12 to 1981-1-16
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 35-42
• Monograph Title: Transportation system management, parking, enforcement and other issues
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 816
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Equity; Mobility; Parking regulations; Residential areas; Traffic distribution; Traffic restraint
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345947
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309032571
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 27 1982 12:00AM