Cost of parking, more traffic

A surprising amount of traffic isn’t caused by people who are on their way somewhere. Rather it is caused by people who have already arrived. Our streets are congested, in part, by people who have gotten where they want to be but are cruising around looking for a place to park.



Donald Shoup is professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (shoup@ucla.edu).

http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/CruisingForParkingAccess.pdf