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Title:

Does the Availability of On-street Parking Affect Car Ownership of Households with Off-street Parking?

Accession Number:

01372950

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Local governments' minimum street-width standards often force developers to over-supply, and residents to pay for, a large quantity of on-street parking in residential neighborhoods. Such a policy is believed to encourage car ownership while reduce the affordability of housing. This paper examined the car ownership impact and focused on households who already have off-street parking. A sample of 403 households are randomly selected from a household travel survey in the New York City region. Their off-street and on-street parking supply are measured through Google Street View and Bing Maps Birds Eye View. After controlling for the endogeneity between parking supply and car ownership and the correlation between off-street and on-street parking supply, this paper finds that free and readily available on-street parking increases private car ownership by 8.8 percent, or one out of eleven cars purchased by households with off-street parking in the study region can be explained by on-street parking availability. Because private developers are reluctant to provide on-street parking and residents are unlikely to pay for such parking if the cost is not bundled with housing, this increased car ownership is largely the result of (ineffective) government intervention in the market. Local governments should revise their street standards and make the provision of on-street parking optional. They should let the market decide whether, and how many, on-street parking spaces to provide in new residential developments.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Transportation Demand Management

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-2856

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Guo, Zhan

Pagination:

25p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Google

Geographic Terms:

New York (New York)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-2856

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:12PM