ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at asnapshot of the breakdown of parking, by land use type, for 15 large US metro areas, organized by five regions of the United States. We include estimates of current parking from detached housing, multi-family housing, retail, office, parking structures, and institutional space. The cities are grouped into regions including four geographical areas of the United States, plus atransit-oriented group. We also consider short-term demographic trends on car ownership and commuting. Using data from the US census and market summaries of various real estate types from CoStar, we provide estimates by source, and aggregate them to develop ratios of parking spaces per household. Overall, we find that cities in the Southeast and West-Southwestern United States including Raleigh, Tampa, and Houston (with about 3.5 parking spaces per metro household) have the highest amount of parking, while the transit-oriented cities of Chicago (under 2 spaces her household), Boston, DC, and San Francisco (about 2.3 spaces) were the lowest among the cities studied. Parking at home represented 61% of all spaces, with retailsecond at 16% of all parking spaces studied.
