01475756

Component

This study surveyed parking citation problems from the perspective of the city that uses them as a source of revenue as well as the users that would like to avoid them. Drivers of all types have received meter parking citations indiscriminately and sometimes unfairly. The parking citation data obtained from the city of Baltimore indicated more than one million tickets for a total amount of revenue of $46 million in 2010. Parking meter violation ranked first among all types of citations causing disputes and frustrating among citizens. An innovative solution to street parking fee collection is proposed. The solution would streamline the collection process for the city, while drivers would more operatively disburse for the length of stay at the street parking spot. Dynamic parking rates corresponding the demand and length of stay, and substitution of the incremental pricing for time limit enforcement promote this study. The authors believed that the proposed method is among the most efficient plans to mitigate parking congestion externalities.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Transportation Demand Management.

01470560

13-5325

English

0000-0002-2497-3443

14p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Equity; Field studies; On street parking; Parking fees; Parking violations

Baltimore (Maryland)

Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-5325

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 1:00PM