Sustainable Parking Management

Sustainable Parking Management provides the latest research findings in the field, encouraging transport planners and policymakers to use parking policy as a tool for managing parking and transport systems. The book teaches up-to-date parking management techniques for selecting parking policies and understanding parking behavior when faced with policy interventions. It shows when to apply each policy, how to include user attitudes in policy definition, and how to model user behavior when refining parking policies. In addition, it stresses the need to reduce overall city driving and the need to allow users to choose the transport mode that best suits their needs. As the growth of cities and car dependency worldwide has led to parking problems resulting in increased traffic congestion, pollution, and overall urban chaos, this book creates a model to help deal with the fallout. - Offers step-by-step procedures for defining sustainable parking policies - Synthesizes the latest research into one source - Links theoretical knowledge with hands-on best practices from around the world - Includes learning aids, such as chapter openers, textboxes, end-of-chapter review questions, and a glossary