Tackling Traffic Congestion with Workplace Parking Levies
School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WA, UK
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Sustainability 2020, 12(6), 2200; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062200
Received: 20 December 2019 / Revised: 24 February 2020 / Accepted: 25 February 2020 / Published: 12 March 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Potential Solutions)
On the basis of 17 interviews with employers and 272 survey responses from employees, we explore the perceptions of a Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) in Cardiff, with the aim of understanding if a WPL would be an acceptable traffic demand management policy to tackle traffic congestion. We find that employers would not be very supportive of a WPL, whilst employees would, provided employers were to absorb the costs. Despite this support, the majority of those who drive to work would not be prepared to change mode. An important theme throughout the study was the perception of public transport and active travel provision in Cardiff being inadequate. Most study participants felt that investment in public transport and active travel is needed before a WPL is introduced. We conclude that, although a WPL would not be overwhelmingly acceptable to employers and employees, it would be more acceptable than congestion charging, and there is a possibility that acceptability could be increased with the help of feedback from a public consultation.
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Keywords:
traffic congestion; workplace parking levies; traffic demand management; transport policy; road pricing; commuting; congestion charging; parking; parking policy; parking cash-out
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Santos, G.; Hagan, A.; Lenehan, O. Tackling Traffic Congestion with Workplace Parking Levies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062200
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Santos G, Hagan A, Lenehan O. Tackling Traffic Congestion with Workplace Parking Levies. Sustainability. 2020; 12(6):2200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062200
Chicago/Turabian StyleSantos, Georgina, Anna Hagan, and Orla Lenehan. 2020. "Tackling Traffic Congestion with Workplace Parking Levies" Sustainability 12, no. 6: 2200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062200
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