Topic

Parking

Good parking management has shown to be a game changer in cities, playing a pivotal role in revitalising urban areas. Effective parking policies lead to more efficient use of private cars by reducing car travel and favouring the integration of more sustainable transport modes. Furthermore, they improve access to freight travel and generate revenues for local authorities. At the same time, bad parking management can achieve the opposite, resulting in a cluttered urban space with reduced access to sustainable modes and reduced safety.

The world of parking is changing drastically, through planning and technology, and has to relate to shared and autonomous transport.


POLIS-EPA Partnership

POLIS cooperates on parking issues with the European Parking Association (EPA) to create a better understanding among the different actors in parking activities. The EPA is an umbrella organisation of 19 European national parking organisations. The EPA has established a European standard for parking facilities which is available here.

POLIS and EPA regularly exchange information and expertise about improving city parking. They organise joint workshops and events on parking and release joint policy documents. POLIS has signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Parking Association to facilitate, among other activities, cooperation with local and regional stakeholders to address topics such as parking regulations, EV charging infrastructure, and sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs), as well as curb-space management linked to the deployment of new mobility services and urban logistics.


POLIS Working Group on Parking

POLIS members largely benefit from POLIS’ extensive experience and partnerships on parking issues. The main platform for exchanging best practices in parking management is the Working Group on Parking, which convenes several times per year in online and physical meetings.


POLIS projects 

POLIS is currently involved in several projects addressing parking-related priority topics such as eCharge4Drivers, which is linked to the topic of Parking policies and infrastructure for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs); and ShareDiMobiHub, linked to the topic of parking as available space not only for cars but for all types of vehicles that are now on the cities’ streets.

POLIS has been involved in the past in parking and urban-space-reallocation-related projects such as Park4SUMP and MORE.

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