TY - JOUR
T1 - Parking by the bay
T2 - The supply and implications of parking infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area
AU - Li, Rui
AU - Helmrich, Alysha
AU - Chester, Mikhail
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from San Jose State University’s Mineta Transportation Institute. It was developed in partnership with SPUR, a nonprofit public policy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. The authors thank Laura Tolkoff (SPUR), Nick Josefowitz (SPUR), Kenji Anzai (SPUR), Ke-ary Smith (MTC), Bob Allen (Urban Habitat), Hayley Currier (Transform CA), and Dr. Hilary Nixon (SJSU) for their guidance, contributions, and feedback.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Rui Li, Alysha Helmrich & Mikhail Chester.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most progressive transportation regions in the deployment of high-capacity transit and the use of policies to encourage active transportation. Yet, there remains a dearth of knowledge on the abundance and location of parking infrastructure. The extent and location of parking supply, including on-street and off-street spaces, are estimated for the nine-county Bay Area by creating a federated database that joins land use, transportation, parcel, building, and parking code layers to estimate the number and characteristics of parking spaces at the census block scale. This bottom-up parking space inventory results in an estimated 15 million parking spaces in the region: 8.6 million on-street and 6.4 million off-street. Residential parking dominates the share of supply at 70%, followed by commercial at 9.4%. Space density is greatest in downtown San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose—largely attributed to high-rise structures. On-street parking is dominant in the North Bay, commanding 78% of total parking in Napa, 75% in Solano, 68% in Sonoma, and 67% in Marin County. Parking area constitutes 7.9% of the total incorporated area. Notably, when compared to other southwest cities (Phoenix Metropolitan Area and Los Angeles County), the Bay Area parking supply appears better utilized considering spaces per person, per car, and per job. The density and quantity of parking spaces in the Bay Area are critical insights toward developing targeted policies that encourage active mobility and support affordable housing.
AB - The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most progressive transportation regions in the deployment of high-capacity transit and the use of policies to encourage active transportation. Yet, there remains a dearth of knowledge on the abundance and location of parking infrastructure. The extent and location of parking supply, including on-street and off-street spaces, are estimated for the nine-county Bay Area by creating a federated database that joins land use, transportation, parcel, building, and parking code layers to estimate the number and characteristics of parking spaces at the census block scale. This bottom-up parking space inventory results in an estimated 15 million parking spaces in the region: 8.6 million on-street and 6.4 million off-street. Residential parking dominates the share of supply at 70%, followed by commercial at 9.4%. Space density is greatest in downtown San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose—largely attributed to high-rise structures. On-street parking is dominant in the North Bay, commanding 78% of total parking in Napa, 75% in Solano, 68% in Sonoma, and 67% in Marin County. Parking area constitutes 7.9% of the total incorporated area. Notably, when compared to other southwest cities (Phoenix Metropolitan Area and Los Angeles County), the Bay Area parking supply appears better utilized considering spaces per person, per car, and per job. The density and quantity of parking spaces in the Bay Area are critical insights toward developing targeted policies that encourage active mobility and support affordable housing.
KW - automobility
KW - infrastructure
KW - parking
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U2 - 10.5198/jtlu.2022.2123
DO - 10.5198/jtlu.2022.2123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136106435
SN - 1938-7849
VL - 15
SP - 527
EP - 545
JO - Journal of Transport and Land Use
JF - Journal of Transport and Land Use
IS - 1
ER -