The Mineta Transportation Institute, in partnership with SPUR and researchers at Arizona State University, recently created a parking census of the Bay Area has revealed the true enormity of land that we dedicate to our cars: 15 million spaces spread across the region’s nine counties. To coincide with the launch of this census we’re also releasing the database that was used as the backbone for our research. This innovative, publicly-available tool can serve as an important asset to help policymakers and planners throughout the Bay Area make more strategic decisions about parking. But such a tool is only useful if you know what to do with it. Take part in an interactive workshop to learn how this data-rich index of the region’s parking surfeit can be wielded to inform policy changes, both big and small, in your own city.
- Laura Tolkoff / SPUR
- James Choe / Metropolitan Transportation Commission & Association of Bay Area Governments
- Mikhail Chester / Arizona State University
- Rui Li / Arizona State University
- Alysha Helmrich / Arizona State University
Co-presented by the Mineta Transportation Institute, Parking Reform Network, ULI San Francisco and APA Northern California.
1 AICP CM credit is available for APA member attendees.