Intro -- About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: What Is a Parking Space Worth? -- Parking as a Contested Space -- Problems of Unmanaged Parking -- Understanding Parking Behavior -- Strategic Parking...

Intro -- About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Reframing Parking Requirements as a Policy Choice -- Parking Requirements as Policy -- How Did We Get Here? -- Origins and Current...

Employer-paid parking is a popular fringe benefit that invites commuters to drive to work alone. Thus, employer-paid parking works at cross purposes with costly public policies designed to reduce traffic congestion, energy consumption, and air pollution. This article (1) explores the problems...

Employer-paid parking is a form of matching grant whereby an employer offers to pay the cost of parking if employees are wiling to pay all the other costs of driving to work. In this paper we estimate how employer-paid parking increases the number of vehicle miles travelled to work, the energy...

A multinomial logit model of downtown Los Angeles commuters is used to assess the effect of employer-paid parking on mode choice and parking demand. Employer-paid parking significantly increases the probability that an employee will drive to work alone. The best performing models predict that...

This article reviews empirical studies of how employer-paid parking affects employees' travel choices. A strong effect is found: parking subsidies greatly increase solo driving.When employers reduce or remove parking subsidies, a significant number of solo drivers shift to carpools and/or...