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Employer-Paid Parking: The Problem and Proposed Solutions

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  • Shoup, Donald C.
  • Willson, Richard W.

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Employer-paid parking is a popular fringe benefit that invites commuters to drive to work alone. Thus, employer-paid parking works at cross purposes with costly public policies designed to reduce traffic congestion, energy consumption, and air pollution. This article (1) explores the problems created by employer parking subsidies, (2) proposes a policy of requiring employers who offer an employee a parking subsidy to also offer that employee the option to receive, in lieu of the parking subsidy, the fair market value of the parking subsidy either as a cash commute allowance or as a mass transit or ridesharing subsidy, and (3) predicts the consequences of the policy proposal with new data derived from research on commuters to downtown Los Angeles.

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  • Shoup, Donald C. & Willson, Richard W., 1992. "Employer-Paid Parking: The Problem and Proposed Solutions," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt2x6240jr, University of California Transportation Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt2x6240jr
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    1. Jos van Ommeren & Arno van der Vlist & Peter Nijkamp, 2002. "Transport-Related Fringe Benefits," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 02-063/3, Tinbergen Institute.
    2. Shaheen, Susan, 2005. "Smart Parking Management Field Test: A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Parking Demonstration," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt6d58554x, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    3. Delucchi, Mark & Murphy, James, 2008. "How large are tax subsidies to motor-vehicle users in the US?," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt3pc3d715, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    4. Bueno, Paola Carolina & Gomez, Juan & Peters, Jonathan R. & Vassallo, Jose Manuel, 2017. "Understanding the effects of transit benefits on employees’ travel behavior: Evidence from the New York-New Jersey region," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 1-13.
    5. Tscharaktschiew, Stefan & Reimann, Felix, 2021. "On employer-paid parking and parking (cash-out) policy: A formal synthesis of different perspectives," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 499-516.
    6. Evangelinos, Christos & Tscharaktschiew, Stefan & Marcucci, Edoardo & Gatta, Valerio, 2018. "Pricing workplace parking via cash-out: Effects on modal choice and implications for transport policy," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 369-380.
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    8. Mokhtarian, Patricia L. & Ye, Liang & Yun, Meiping, 2010. "The Effects of Gender on Commuter Behavior Changes in the Context of a Major Freeway Construction," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt86c4v6cr, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    9. Shoup, Donald C. & Willson, Richard W., 1992. "Commuting, Congestion and Pollution: The Employer-Paid Parking Connection," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt2f0485tp, University of California Transportation Center.
    10. Shaheen, Susan & Rodier, Caroline J. & Eaken, Amanda M., 2005. "Smart Parking Management Pilot Project: A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Parking Demonstration," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt4vk680h8, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    11. Edward Calthrop & Stef Proost & Kurt van Dender, 2000. "Parking Policies and Road Pricing," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 37(1), pages 63-76, January.
    12. Lehner, Stephan & Peer, Stefanie, 2019. "The price elasticity of parking: A meta-analysis," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 177-191.
    13. Gragera, Albert & Albalate, Daniel, 2016. "The impact of curbside parking regulation on garage demand," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 160-168.
    14. Shaheen, Susan & Rodier, Caroline & Eaken, Amanda M., 2005. "Smart Parking Management Pilot Project: A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Parking Demonstration," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt3p83z8g4, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    15. Shoup, Donald C., 1993. "Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking: A Precedent for Congestion Pricing?," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt8xr2v0j1, University of California Transportation Center.
    16. Shoup, Donald C., 1992. "Cashing Out Employer-Paid Parking," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt4548s6j5, University of California Transportation Center.
    17. Shoup, Donald C., 1997. "Evaluating the Effects of Parking Cash Out: Eight Case Studies," University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers qt5nc6w2dj, University of California Transportation Center.
    18. Delucchi, Mark A. & Murphy, James J., 2008. "How large are tax subsidies to motor-vehicle users in the US?," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 15(3), pages 196-208, May.

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