The crisis of climate change has jumpstarted a renewed interest in environmental sustainability. The growing awareness of the problem and the ensuing intense search for solutions called for a scrutinizing reexamination of the relationships between transportation, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions. Major publications such as The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup in 2005, and Parking Management, Strategies, Evaluation and Planning by Todd Litman in 2008, have identified parking as a crucial link. Parking issues are intrinsic to planning because parking facilities are a major land use type that affects how we design and build our commercial and residential areas, as well as influences our travel behavior which directly affects the form of urban infrastructure demanded by society. The management of parking demand and supply is highly complex because of its political and controversial nature. This thesis studies parking comprehensively in order to provide a guide for Silicon Valley cities. The contents of this comprehensive toolbox include background information, overview of major strategies with local examples, suggestions for securing financial and human resources necessary for planning and implementation of parking policies, and an inventory and analysis of current policies of 22 Silicon Valley cities. Also included in the appendix is a presentation with illustrations summarizing the thesis, titled "The Story of Parking”. This study recommends strengthening the language of existing, adopted parking policies and following up with appropriate implementation measures to decrease general parking demand in Silicon Valley cities. Cities can further manage their parking supply and demand by adopting new policies such as parking maximums, allowance of off-site parking with shuttle services, allowance of parking lifts, and improving accessibility of parking user information.. More aggressive policies to adopt and implement include parking taxes, parking pricing, encouraging car share, and unbundling parking.

Thesis (MEng)--University of South Australia, 2000

Thesis (M.T.P. 1978) from the Department of Architecture, University of Adelaide).

Major Paper (M.U.A.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-81). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 68-71).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 94).

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33-34). Also available on the World Wide Web.

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Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 88-91).

Recent decades have seen many localities revisiting traditional town center-style development as a response to problems caused by sprawl. In some cases, these more compact developments occur in areas that are otherwise primarily suburban in character. Of the many facets of these developments, parking has one of the largest impacts on the compactness, walkability, and accessibility of those developments, but little information, academic or otherwise, exists to inform the planning of parking for mixed-use projects in an otherwise suburban environment. Many localities rely on zoning-based parking minimums, but a lack of situational parking strategies may limit the benefits of these suburban mixed-use projects. In an effort to ascertain trends or best practices in a suburban context, information on eleven mixed-use developments was collected from planners and developers. In addition, quantitative data related to the mix of uses and amount of parking in similar developments was obtained from Urban Land Institute case studies. The analysis revealed that in general, suburban municipalities do not capitalize on potential parking reductions created by mixing uses, do not truly share parking between uses, and do not implement parking regulation in the form of time limits or pricing. In a few cases, there were exceptions to these general trends, with some developments implementing detailed shared parking plans that have thus far been successful in balancing demand and supply. The related quantitative analysis suggests that the most important strategy as it relates to parking is to have a varied mix of uses in the development, with attention to those that have opposite peak times. Based on the case studies and shared parking analyses, recommendations for effective parking strategies for suburban, mixed-use development include: development of a shared parking plan, the use of ULI\'s Shared Parking as a starting point but not a final determinant in those shared parking plans, the use of proffers to require periodic checks on the shared parking supply, and ongoing local parking studies to better understand local need. / Master of Urban and Regional Planning