[Durham INC] parking studies?

[Matt Dudek]

Don,

Here is a publication by the author John mentions. His crowning work is a
700 page book, but this summarizes it well.

It's difficult to directly apply this to 9th street, but his study of LA
found that free parking caused people to park there cars in prime spaces
all day, and that half of traffic in areas were people looking for parking
spaces. He argues that by finding the optimum market price for parking that
it causes parking spaces to turn over more frequently, which means people
looking to shop can find spaces more frequently, and so more people are
likely to go and shop at places if they are confident they can get parking.

This is not a direct comparison to 9th Street, since I don't think people
are afraid they won't find a space. This might change though once al that
new housing goes online, but if that's the case hopefully 9th street
businesses will be inundated with customers!

Matt Dudek, MPA/MCRP


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:18 PM, John Martin <bulldurhamnc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Don,
>
> A New York Times article mentions a book by Donald C. Shoup, professor of
> urban planning at UCLA.  It's 733 pages and it's entitled The High Cost
> of Free Parking.  Obviously, he's against free parking, but the book
> ought to reference most of the academic literature on the subject.
>
> Here's the Times link:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.html?_r=1&
>
> John
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Don Moffitt <don.moffitt at gmail.com>
> *To:* "inc-list at durhaminc.org" <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 27, 2013 1:42 PM
> *Subject:* [Durham INC] parking studies?
>
>  Do you any of you subscribers to the INC listserve know how/where to
> access studies on the impact of implementing paid parking on adjacent
> retail?
>
> It seems like this is something that municipalities must wrestle with all
> the time, and something that would be easy to study. I did an online search
> and came up with newspaper stories, but not studies. The stories included
> some research, but it would be good to have more detailed studies to review.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don Moffitt
> Durham City Council
>
>
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