Background

Parking planning and management are critical aspects of the transportation system and the urban built environment. On average, a private vehicle is in motion around 5% of the time. That is, the presence of a private car on the move is the exception. However, most of the car’s public attention is for when it is moving and not when it is parked. As a result, today, in many cities, public parking management is deficient. In the absence of proper management and pricing of on-street parking, and without a systemic vision of the parking inventory, there is no optimal parking resource utilization. Data-based parking policies and proper pricing can create a reality of optimizing its utilization while reducing congestion and creating a better and more efficient urban space. All this has led architect Maier Yagod and me to write (In Hebrew for now) an extensive, but yet brief, document on parking policy and management. The document attempts to make the research on parking that has been made by leading scholars around the world more accessible to the Israeli reader in the Israeli context. It includes fourteen steps for policymakers, where the first nine are steps to implement, and the last five are measures that can help cope with the political challenge of implementing the first nine.

The full document in Hebrew:

A Summary of the fourteen steps:

1. Dynamic Pricing: On the street, charge the right price for every hour and area.
2. Manage and price on-street parking for residents as well.
3. “All may park - All must pay.” To Improve accessibility, eliminate payment exemptions, even for disabled badge holders.
4. Encourage employers to allow their employees to cash-out parking with money.
5. Remove minimum parking requirements.
6. Park and walk - manage parking at the regional level.
7. Manage and price parking at sporting and mass events.
8. Create parking spaces for two-wheelers and manage them too.
9. Mark where parking is allowed, not where parking is not permitted.
10. Disconnect politics from the price.
11. Technology is not a policy replacement. Use it to support the policy.
12. Apply effective enforcement measures, but act fairly.
13. Allocate most of the parking revenue to the area where they were collected.
14. Distinguish between current residents living in the neighborhood and future residents.

A new residential street in Jerusalem	And at the same time and place

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