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Parking Policy World Cafe Session results

This session explores the importance of having a parking policy as part of a larger strategy for creating a livable city. It emphasizes the need for data gathering, assessing the situation, and creating a vision to effectively plan for the future. The session also highlights common errors in parking policies and shares good examples of convenient payment methods and booking parking spaces.

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Parking Policy World Cafe Session results

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  1. Parking PolicyWorld CafeSession results Michał Brennek REC Poland Sofia, 21.10.2014

  2. Vision is critical • Since we will ban cars from certain areas people will feel that their freedom of choice is being restricted • A vision of „livable city” or so popular „inteligent city” is something people can relate to.

  3. Context and strategy • Parking policy must be part of a bigger plan or strategy. If it is done as the only tool to regulate traffic in the city it will fail! • It is cruicial to propose a set of measures rooted in the context of both space (the city) and the culture

  4. We are dealing with needs of inhabitants • It is important to gather data and assess the situation first! • There are lots of different methods but when using a questionnaires be speciffic ask „What transport modes were in use yesterday” not how GENERALLY you travel across the city.

  5. Vision + Data -> Plan • Whenyouknow the situation and have a visionitis the time to plan the ways of getting „there”. • It’sgoodwhensomeone (EU, Ministry…) pays but without the situationassessment and a vision of the futureeven the best plan will not getyouanywhere. IF THE DESTINATION IS NOT KNOWN EVERY WIND DIRECTION IS BAD

  6. …plan the work & work the plan… COMMON ERRORS: • Parking zones not tooexpensive for the userso P+R facitiltiesare not used Solution: use progressive fees(1hr: 1Euro -> 2hrs: 10 Euro) Notice: introduction of parking zones and paymentsystemsisoftendoneatvery high politicalcost

  7. …plan the work & work the plan… COMMON ERRORS: • P+R facilities not usedbecause the RIDE part isstuck in the traffic jam (ortakeslongerthan by car). Solution: • useprioritylanes and separatetrams from the traffic. • P+R & train to the citycetreis a goodsolution. • Adjust the schedulessoitwould be moreconvenientthan by car

  8. …plan the work & work the plan… GOOD EXAMPLES: • Useconvenientpaymentmethods Solutions: • In Madriditispossible to pay for the parking just by startinganapp on yoursmartphone (register yourplatesfirst). Notice: the data alreadygathered • In Warsawyoucanpay by sendingan SMS. • Whenyouleaveyour car in P+R youalreadyhave a ticket to go to the citycentre and back. • Useelasticpaymentmethods (one cardfitsall transport modeswithin a region).

  9. …plan the work & work the plan… GOOD EXAMPLES: • Useconvenientpaymentmethods Solutions: • In Madriditispossible to pay for the parking just by startinganapp on yoursmartphone (register yourplatesfirst). Notice: the data alreadygathered • In Warsawyoucanpay by sendingan SMS. • Whenyouleaveyour car in P+R youalreadyhave a ticket to go to the citycentre and back. • Useelasticpaymentmethods (one cardfitsall transport modeswithin a region). • But not every driver usessmartphone

  10. …plan the work & work the plan… GOOD EXAMPLES: • Bookyour parking Solutions: • It isveryusefull to show usingelectronicsignswhere parking placesareavailable • If we knowthat - itiseasy to allowpeople to bookthair parking

  11. We are dealing with people We can have the fanciest infrastructure, the most modern apps and solutions but without changing peoples behaviour we are not getting anywhere. Good dose of marketing always helps … … this is where the vision is important!

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