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Title: Developing effective, context-sensitive residential parking standards

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Responsibility for establishing minimum parking requirements for new development largely falls on local governments. Unfortunately, many municipalities do not create parking standards that are appropriate to the various uses and locations that they regulate. Local parking standards are rarely derived from parking utilization studies, and are instead based on small, nationwide samples drawn from varying land use contexts offering varying transportation options. The standards applied to a particular development often do not depend on its physical environment.The present research takes an important step in improving parking regulation: it develops a method for computing context-sensitive residential parking standards. First, it reviews transportation analysis literature to discern the latest thinking on the relationship between vehicle ownershipthe main component of residential parking demandand environmental and demographic variables. Second, it translates these lessons into a form appropriate for land use regulation. Third, it proposes and validates a method for estimating household vehicle ownership using only regulation-appropriate variables.

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Authors: Cuddy, Matt

Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Department: Program in Urban Planning and Policy Development

Advisor: David Listokin

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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