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Parking Management.Strategies, Evaluation and Planning <br /> Victoria Transport Policy Institute <br /> Alternative Ways To Determine How Much Parking To Supply <br /> There are better ways to determine how much parking to supply at a particular site. <br /> Efficiency-based standards size facilities for optimal utilization. This means that most <br /> parking lots are allowed to fill,provided that management strategies can insure user <br /> convenience and address any problems. For example,parking facilities at a store can be <br /> sized to fill daily or weekly,provided that overflow parking is available nearby,motorists <br /> have information about available parking options, and regulations are adequately <br /> enforced to address any spillover problems that develop. <br /> Efficiency-based standards take into account geographic,demographic and economic <br /> factors that affect parking demand. They also reflect the relative costs and benefits of <br /> different options, so less parking is supplied where parking supply is relatively costly to <br /> provide or where management programs easy to implement. Efficiency-based standards <br /> should also reflect strategic planning objectives such as a desire for more compact <br /> development, or to reduce traffic. <br /> Because it is not possible to predict exact parking demand and management program <br /> effectiveness,efficiency-based standards rely on contingency-based planning,which <br /> means that planners identify solutions that can be deployed if needed in the future. For <br /> example,if a new building is predicted to need 60 to 100 parking spaces,the <br /> conventional approach is to supply either the middle value (80 spaces), or the maximum <br /> value(100 spaces). With contingency-based planning,the lower-bound value(60 spaces) <br /> is initially supplied, conditions are monitored, and various strategies are identified for <br /> implementation if needed. This may include banking land for additional parking supply <br /> and various parking management programs. This allows planners to use lower parking <br /> standards with the confidence that any resulting problems can be easily solved. <br /> 10 <br />