Review of the Effects of Developments with Low Parking Requirements

Sustainability

Cecilia Hult¹  Åsa Hult²  Anders Roth²  Frances Sprei³ 

[1] Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden;IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 411 33 Gothenburg, Sweden;;Space, Earth &

关键词: minimum parking requirements;    carsharing;    mobility patterns;    car ownership;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su12051744

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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