Parking Management Best Practices

• Authored by:  T. Littman

Littman, T., Parking Management Best Practices, American Planning Association, (2006)

This book addresses a variety of strategies for more effective parking management, including shared parking policies. It investigates problems with current parking planning, discusses the costs of parking facilities and potential savings from improved management, describes specific parking management strategies and how they can be implemented, discusses planning and evaluation issues, and describes how to develop optimal parking management in a particular situation. It notes that cost-effective parking management programs can usually reduce parking requirements by 20-40% compared with conventional planning requirements, providing many economic, social and environmental benefits.