SUSTAPARK - Optimising price and location of parking in cities under a sustainability constraint
Overview
Background & policy context:
A lot of cities in Belgium are struggling with parking problems. Having too much parking spaces for cars causes traffic problems, congestion, emissions, noise, and, above all, over-consumption of expensive land. Too little parking has also disadvantages: the inner city is less accessible, and many people will keep search for the scarce parking spots and therefore might cause even more traffic related problems.
Objectives:
The objective of the project is to develop a tool providing strategic advice on urban parking.
The instrument considered issues as public versus private parking, on-street versus off-street, fees, time regulations, effects on welfare, city development, spatial competition, enforcement, housing, land use costs, congestion cost, etc.
A spatial disaggregation into city districts was provided to be able to also optimise the geographical aspects of parking management.
Methodology:
The growing demand for parking was balanced with the environmental, economical and social constraints of a sustainability city centre.
The proposal is to build a land use model that is able to manage different options of location, amount and price of public parking spots.
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