Review of the Effects of Developments with Low Parking Requirements

Frances Sprei, Cecilia Hult, Åsa Hult and Anders Roth
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Frances Sprei: Space, Earth & Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Cecilia Hult: IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 411 33 Gothenburg, Sweden
Åsa Hult: IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 411 33 Gothenburg, Sweden
Anders Roth: IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 411 33 Gothenburg, Sweden

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: minimum parking requirements; carsharing; mobility patterns; car ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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