Review of the Effects of Developments with Low Parking Requirements
Journal article, 2020

Parking management and planning can be used to address several issues related to sustainable urban development. For example, parking availability affects both car ownership and usage, and parking planning can affect both land use and building costs. A tool used in several countries is minimum parking requirements (MPR) and lowering these could be a pathway to more sustainable mobility. However, the actual effects of lower MPR have not systematically been studied. In this paper we present the results of a review of sixteen developments with low MPR in Sweden, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Existing research and reports have been analyzed to compare these and draw conclusions on the effect of MPR on mobility patterns and mobility services. In addition, interviews were conducted with representatives from municipalities and developers. Our results indicate that the mobility patterns of individuals in the studied projects are more sustainable than in nearby projects. However, the causality of MPR and mobility is hard to establish due to the risk of self-selection and that all of the studied projects have good prerequisites for sustainable mobility practices. Many of the studied evaluations are also of poor quality with, for example, lack of appropriate control group.

mobility patterns

carsharing

minimum parking requirements

car ownership

Author

Frances Sprei

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

Cecilia Hult

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Asa Hult

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Anders Roth

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Sustainability

20711050 (eISSN)

Vol. 12 5 1744

Parking norms and mobility services

Swedish Energy Agency (44452-1), 2017-10-01 -- 2019-12-31.

Parking norms and mobility services for sustainable mobility

Formas (2017-01029), 2018-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.

Subject Categories

Landscape Architecture

Environmental Management

Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology

DOI

10.3390/su12051744

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5/10/2021