Resources

Sample project worksheet for curbside project analyzed in ITE Curbside Management Toole on Broadway in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Convener: Randy McCourt

FHWA Public Roads article from Summer 2021 on Curbside Management.

The FHWA Curbside Inventory Report provides an in-depth technical study pertaining to the collection, inventories, and processing of information relevant to existing conditions, curbside activity, and performance measurement. The analysis provides the practitioner with the tools needed to establish modal priorities within a jurisdiction, paving the way for the pursuit of new projects and strategies. The report identifies appropriate measures of effectiveness to understand project needs, selecting appropriate data to evaluate the measures and project alternatives, and obtaining selected data. It includes a discussion of methodologies for collecting new data relevant to curbside management projects through both manual, in-person observations and automated data collection equipment.

The Treatment Priority Lookup Table is an essential component which provides user guidance to the component to analyze with the ROW Centerlines. It is available as a separate table both within the GitHub repository and on ITE's Curbside webpage.

The Curbside Management Tool User Guide provides information on how to use the Curbside Management Tool's suite of components that facilitate data collection, analysis, and treatment recommendations for curbside regulation and public right-of-way (ROW) allocation. A transportation professional with GIS experience should be able to identify relevant treatment options to help agencies allocate curbs and public ROW in line with policy priorities.

Curbside Management Case Study: San Francisco, CA

Curb space is where movement meets access. However, this valuable and flexible public space is not always optimized for its highest and best use. Curb space can be used not only as car parking and loading, but also as the front stoop, sidewalk café, transit hub, freight delivery zone, taxi stand, rain garden, or trash collection area. It serves many purposes throughout the day and makes possible the exchanges and interactions that occur on great streets. Curb space has historically been a reliable revenue source for municipalities through parking fees, and a key indicator for real estate and retail value. The curb space is usually contested; reassigning curb space for new purposes is often politically fraught, in part because use of the curb is competitive and viewed as zero-sum.

Curbside Management Case Study: Toronto, ON

Curbside Management Case Study: Washington, DC

This paper provides examples of how cities have successfully changed curb use to support transit. It is focused on the types of busy, store-lined streets where high-ridership transit lines often struggle with reliability. These key curbside management strategies support reliable transit and safer streets in one of two ways: either by directly making room for transit, or supporting transit projects by better managing the many demands on the urban curb.

The final report of the Edmonton Parking Management Study, prepared by Bunt & Associates in conjunction with the author and published in January 2013, identified a number of block faces where the installation of pay-parking was recommended. The City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada requested that the consultants prepare a set of criteria that can be used to assess where the installation of curbside pay-parking can be justified. This paper outlines the author's approach to create a criterion to meet the city's needs.

This paper discusses strategies for getting to a set of desired outcomes for metered curbside parking using less capital-intensive solutions. "Asset lite" solutions are discussed in the context of payment options and occupancy detection for metered on-street parking. On the payment side, the revenue stream has evolved from being primarily coin-based to a mixture of coin, credit, and new payment options such as pay by cell. There are inherent cost and convenience benefits for the non-coin options. The relationship between downtown congestion and cruising to find an open parking spot has encouraged local jurisdictions to look at pricing as a tool to ensure that a certain level of occupancy or availability is maintained for on-street spaces. Fundamental to this approach is estimating occupancy. The industry has migrated from manual counts for occupancy sensing to space sensors and, more recently, cameras. However, the cost structures for automated detection as currently used might be cost prohibitive. With the recent infusion of new technology and networked assets in the parking industry, the timing is right for individual jurisdictions to consider less capital-intensive, more cost-effective solutions by implementing smarter solutions and leveraging data from all components of the parking ecosystem. How far a jurisdiction or agency can move along the "asset lite" spectrum will be dictated by customer needs, biases, adoption, and an individual agency's policies and willingness to experiment and innovate.