Description

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most progressive transportation regions in the deployment of high-capacity transit and use of policies to encourage active transportation. Yet like many other metro regions, there remains a dearth of knowledge on the abundance and location of parking infrastructure supply. Parking infrastructure remains one of the least catalogued infrastructure but is perhaps the most spatially dominating set of assets. This research estimates the extent and location of parking supply, including on-street and off-street spaces for the nine-county Bay Area. This parking space inventory is the most detailed assessment of parking infrastructure produced for the Bay Area, and represents an important starting point for addressing the impacts of and crafting policy for future transportation goals.

Key findings from the parking census include:

  1. The nine-county Bay Area has 15 million parking spaces, enough parking to wrap around the planet 2.3 times.
  2. Twenty percent of the region's unincorporated land is devoted to driving and storing cars.
  3. There are approximately 2.4 spaces for every car and approximately 1.9 parking spaces for every person in the Bay Area.

This technical report, and accompanying San Francisco Parking Census dataset, was the result of a partnership between MTI and SPUR, a nonprofit public policy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Publication Date

2-2022

Publication Type

Report

Topic

Planning and Policy, Sustainable Transportation and Land Use

Digital Object Identifier

10.31979/mti.2022.2123

MTI Project

2123

Keywords

San Francisco, parking, inventory, census, urban

Disciplines

Infrastructure | Urban Studies and Planning

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