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Paid parking is the recommended policy tool by economists to deal with excess demand for street parking. However, we … residents have political power and usually vote against paid parking when it is detrimental to residents. Hence, in our analysis …, we take into account that residents receive residential parking permits which provides political support for paid parking …
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We examine the effect of citywide parking policy on parking and traffic demand. Using a large increase in on …-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy caused a substantial drop in on-street parking demand, which … is not offset by an increase in off-street demand. The overall reduction in parking demand implies a 2% - 3% reduction in …
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transport and biking. Special attention is paid to parking problems, and possibilities to cope with these by pricing measures …. It is demonstrated that in some cases parking externalities lead to non-convexities that make pricing policies less … attractive. In that case parking restrictions are called for. A general shift is observed from national to municipality policy …
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A sound empirical and quantitative analysis on the relationship between different patterns of urban expansion and the environmental or social costs of mobility is rare, and the few studies available provide at best a qualitative discussion of these issues. Some recent tentative studies on the...
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Existing work emphasizes the importance of traffic congestion externalities, but typically ignores cruising-for-parking … externalities. We introduce a novel methodology to estimate the marginal external cruising costs of parking. The level of cruising … is identified by examining to what extent the car inflow rate into the parking location falls with parking occupancy …
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Many cities around the world have introduced paid parking but implicitly subsidize parking for example by providing … residential parking permits for street parking. We study the welfare effects of residential parking subsidies through changes in … waiting lists for permits and therefore in the size of the parking subsidy. In the city center, the waiting time for a permit …
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This paper is the first to empirically examine the residents' willingness to pay for on-street parking permits as well … cruising is €1.30 per day. The average residents' willingness to pay for a parking permit is €8 per day. Further, we show that … the introduction of paid parking in a neighborhood decreases house prices in this neighbourhood. …
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Residents are often offered on-street parking at a fraction of the market price which may cause excess car ownership …. However, residential parking costs are difficult to observe, so we propose an approach to estimate implicit residential … parking costs and then examine the effect of these costs on household car ownership. We apply our approach to the four largest …
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It has been argued that urban planning policies, through minimum parking requirements, and income tax policies induce … free employer parking. We show that tax policies induce welfare losses in the order of 12% of parking resource costs …, implying an annual deadweight loss in the order of € 5 billion for Europe. In the US, due to the presence of minimum parking …
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We study the employees' demand for hospital parking. We estimate the effect of the employees' parking price on demand … using a difference-in-differences methodology. The deadweight loss generated by non-optimal pricing of parking is at least 9 …% of the hospitals' parking resource costs. …
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