ABSTRACT
More and more cities in Europe are adopting parking schemes targeted at improving urban accessibility, without increasing car dependency and the related negative externalities. However, possible links between such parking systems and contexts within they work are generally not investigated. This paper summarizes the findings of a study aimed at exploring, from a quantitative viewpoint, the gap between theory and practice also showing that, at practical level too, there is not yet a common understanding in selecting specific parking measures. Starting from an in-depth analysis of parking policies implemented by a sample of European cities, a set of indicators, specially defined for this analysis, were calculated. The statistical variability of the related independent variables was also examined, in order to find probable cause-effect links between local context features and selected measures as well as to provide a first methodological approach to explore the effectiveness of the applied parking strategies.
