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posted on 2015-02-17, 15:42 authored by Isobel F. Beetham, Marcus EnochMarcus Enoch, Martin Tuuli, Lisa DavisonCar parking is a routine yet highly complex part of daily life for both drivers and
those affected by parking. This paper aims to unravel how key stakeholders value
parking, by looking beyond the traditional possibilities associated with supply and
demand to help better inform decision makers with their parking related dilemmas,
by drawing on a series of in-depth interviews. First, interviews were conducted with
eight academics who maintain a research interest in parking, to validate key stakeholders
and their parking dilemmas as identified from literature. Second, interviews
with 20 representatives spanning an assortment of key stakeholder groups affected
by parking were undertaken, to determine their perspectives on the value of parking.
The findings indicate that a considerably broader reach of stakeholders are affected
by parking than the existing literature suggests, and the process of means by which
stakeholders value parking is more sophisticated than previously thought. This new
finding dispels traditional beliefs relating to how stakeholders value parking; the article
outlines the extent to which such beliefs are mistaken, and provides the foundation
for further work to understand the extent of these replacement values.
Keywords: car parking; transport policy; stakeholder values; actor perspectives;
planning attributes
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