01514506

Component

Residential streets serve a variety of uses including the provision of on-street parking despite the fact that almost all suburban residential homes contain private driveways and/or private garages. In a typical 34-foot curb-to-curb roadway, parking constitutes fourteen linear feet or forty-one percent of the paved space. But is that much on-street parking warranted and utilized? This study looks at three residential neighborhoods built during the 1920s, 1970s, and 1990s in Eugene, Oregon to assess on-street parking utilization. The neighborhoods reflect changes in development patterns and residential design relative to car ownership. Despite the differences in development patterns and varying proximity to the city center, on-street parking utilization was consistently low with an average 89% vacancy rate. Moreover, almost every surveyed street had double the capacity for on-street parking than was needed. This residential parking mismatch has real costs from road construction and maintenance to the ability to sell more land for private profit and public tax revenue. For new developments, the findings of this study should be taken into account when designing and building new streets. For existing residential neighborhoods, this paper provides options for partial street retrofit from environmental management to new opportunities for urban agriculture.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFB40 Landscape and Environmental Design. Alternate title: Parking Mismatch Phenomenon: Excessive Residential Parking and What to Do About It.

01503729

14-1815

English

0000-0002-7698-4814

16p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables

Costs; Highway design; On street parking; Residential streets

Eugene (Oregon)

Design; Highways; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1815

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:39PM