Research – Parking Reform Network

Building a U.S. Parking Minimums Database

Tung Lin and Wilson Lee — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:50:14 +0000

Using data to inform and reform policies isn’t new. However, in order to analyze data, you need to be able to access the data — even better if it’s already processed and formatted. There’s no unified database for parking minimums in the United States, so we were tasked to build one. Parking minimums are a set of parking requirements for new developments, ranging from residential to…

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Federal Highway Administration Releases New Findings on Parking Cruising

Natalie Montanez — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:47:19 +0000

Cruising for parking affects nearly 10% of city traffic during peak hours, according to research recently conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Building on work done in previous studies, FHWA used GPS breadcrumb data from smartphones to measure excess travel from parking cruising. Thanks to this work, we now have a more accurate understanding of the impact that searching for open…

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How Much of Portland is Used for Off Street Parking?

Ryan Martyn — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:33:56 +0000

Article reposted with permission from Wasted Space The Parking Reform Network recently released their new parking lot map. The interactive map displays the area of city centers and downtowns dedicated to off street parking. Across the 50 city centers analyzed, 20% of the area within the boundaries are dedicated to parking. This is valuable urban land that, if developed differently…

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Meet Thomas Carpenito, Creator of the Parking Lot Map

Thomas Carpenito — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:26:36 +0000

We know parking lots take up too much valuable land in our communities. But how much land, exactly? Parking Reform Network researcher Thomas Carpenito wondered how he could find out — and how he could make that data make sense to people. Parking Reform Network: How did you first become interested in parking reform? Thomas Carpenito: I started university as an environmentalist and…

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A new way to look at costly parking mandates

Jane Wilberding — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:00:00 +0000

In 2015, Strong Towns led a landmark campaign in the fight to end costly parking mandates by developing a crowdsourced map of cities that have eliminated minimum parking requirements. Circulating far and wide, this map has been an emblem in illustrating where cities have made progress to prioritize people over cars, and inspires other communities to do the same. The increasing number of…

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