Car parking policy choices and opportunities in perspective

Interest in car parking policy has become heightened in recent years and conventional parking policy is now more contested than ever. This talk discusses new insights on parking policy developed in two publications by Dr Paul Barter.

One, recently published in Transport Reviews, explores further implications of Donald Shoup's arguments calling for the abolition of minimum parking requirements. The other, soon to be published as an Asian Development Bank (ADB) working paper, reports on a comparative study of parking policy in 14 large metropolitan areas in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Both publications use a new typology of parking policy approaches. The results of the studies and the framework help place common parking policy controversies into a clearer perspective than usual and highlight policy opportunities which are otherwise difficult to see.

Paul Barter is an Assistant Professor in the LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore where he teaches infrastructure, urban and transport policy.

You can view presentation via the GAMUT website.