Parking: an opportunity to deliver sustainable transport

Clements, Rebecca

doi:10.4337/9781789900477.00041

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“…Consolidation of on-street car parking into nearby garages with redundant capacity represents a considerable untapped opportunity to systematically free up street space for NBS 56,58,59 . This could be achieved through existing, proven parking management mechanisms, such as the use of centralised car parking facilities (common in Germany 53 and Japan 60,61 ), or peer-to-peer parking apps which operate similarly to AirBNB or Uber 62,63 . While this produces no actual loss of parking, this would represent a compromise to the familiarity of street parking 64,65 , as well as the additional financial cost of facilitating garage parking (either borne by the state as a subsidy, or by drivers in a market model) 58,66,67 .…”

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Finding space for nature in cities: the considerable potential of redundant car parking

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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are recognised as a means to address challenges such as heatwaves, flooding and biodiversity loss. Delivering these benefits at scale will require large areas of scarce urban land to be converted into green space. Here we show an approach by which cities can make substantial progress towards their sustainability targets using NBS, by converting redundant street parking into biodiverse green space. We demonstrate that up to half of street parking in our case study municipality (The City of Melbourne) could be accommodated in garages within 200 m, freeing up large areas for greening. Our modelling projects significant benefits in terms of tree canopy over, stormwater and ecological connectivity. These would represent strong progress towards a number of the city’s ambitious NBS targets. As many cities allocate extensive areas to both street parking and off-street garages, this approach to freeing up space for nature in cities is widely applicable.

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