Parking Guidebook for Beijing

Content:
  • This report studies Beijing’s existing parking policies and systems and studies several parking locations, residential, commercial, office and mixed use areas, both on-street and off-street, documenting existing parking practices in Beijing. An analysis of problems identifies the main parking issues and Chinese and international best practices described. Recommendations are given for on-street parking, including parking zones, price, policies, technology, enforcement, design, operation models, costing & financing. For off-street parking recommendations are presented for parking maximums, caps and parking sharing. Furthermore recommendations for communication on parking reform are offered.

    The parking recommendations for Beijing as described in this report are based on desk research and surveys and analysis of the existing parking conditions and behavior in Beijing and solutions follow international best practice.

    The objective of this study is to provide detailed insights into Beijing’s parking issues and offer recommendations to improve on-street and off-street parking policies and systems.

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    Bibliographic information:
  • Guidebook of parking recommendations for Beijing, 162 pages

     

     

  • Additional Information:
  • The study is financed by the Asian Development Bank, with some input provided by the Beijing Transport Research Institute (BTRC).

    The work was carried out between August and December 2014. A large team worked on the project including Bram van Ooijen, Yang Li, Shaokun Liu, Xiaomei Duan, Zoltan Gyarmati, Yipeng Du, Judit Ponta, Yusen Wang, Zhitao Li, Chen Dan, Shuling Li and Karl Fjellstrom.

  • Date of publication:
  • 1 March 2015
  • Rights:
  • The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)

  • Contact Information:
  • ITDP office in Chine
    3rd Floor, Municipal Building
    348 (East) Huanshi Dong Lu
    Guangzhou, China 510060
    Phone: (86-20)-83860931
    Email: china@itdp.org
    www.itdp-china.org

  • Languages:
  • English
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