ACCESS 51, Spring 2017🔒 SSL Verified

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• ↓ Introduction
• ↓ Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns
• ↓ The Hidden Cost of Bundled Parking
• ↓ Is Travel Really That Bad?
• ↓ Ridesourcing’s Impact and Role in Urban Transportation
• ↓ Parking Benefit Districts in China
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"Donald ShoupACCESS goes digital. After publishing paper copies since its founding in 1992, and also publishing online since 1998, ACCESS will become entirely digital starting with this issue. Changes in readership have led to this change in format. During the past year, ACCESS had 191,000 page views from 122,000 readers in 70 countries, so we are eliminating the cost of paper and following our readers to where we now find them."

"Michael L. Anderson Public transit receives a large share of transportation funds but accounts for only 1 percent of passenger miles traveled nationwide. Nevertheless, public transit subsidies remain popular in many areas. For example, in 2008, 67 percent of Los Angeles County voters approved a half-cent sales tax to raise $26 billion for transit over 30 years."

"C.J. Gabbe, Gregory Pierce Urban renters in the US face fast-rising housing prices, especially in coastal metropolitan areas. Price increases are in part due to restrictive land-use regulations. Minimum off-street parking requirements, a central component of land-use regulation in the US, warrant detailed study and policy reform. In most cities today, municipal regulation requires developers to provide on-site parking. Renters or buyers then pay for this parking as part of their monthly rent or purchase price; the price of parking is thus “bundled” with the price of the housing unit. While many households might have chosen to pay for on-site parking in a free market, this proportion is surely lower than what has been mandated. Moreover, the historical effect of minimums and bundled parking hides a transportation cost burden in housing prices, leaving households unable to choose. Minimum parking requirements force developers to build costly parking spaces that drive up the price of housing. Urban policymakers have recently taken an interest in reforming parking regulations and allowing unbundled parking based on social equity and environmental sustainability rationales."

"Eric A. Morris Okay, the title of this article is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but travel does involve considerable costs. The average household spends about $8,500 per year on transportation, making it one of our biggest expenditures. Time is another cost of travel, because the roughly hour and ten minutes American adults spend traveling each day might be better spent on things like work, family, and even sleep. Travel can also be tiring, stressful, dangerous, and more."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for accessmagazine.org:

Introduction

Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns

The Hidden Cost of Bundled Parking

Is Travel Really That Bad?

Ridesourcing’s Impact and Role in Urban Transportation

Parking Benefit Districts in China