Ecological analysis of parking prices and active commuting in US cities, 2009

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Abstract

We conducted an ecological study to determine whether parking prices are associated with active commuting across US cities. We obtained parking prices for 107 US cities from the Drexel University Central Business District Public Parking Survey, obtained city prevalence of walking and bicycling to work from the American Community Survey, and used weighted least squares linear regression to explore associations between parking prices and active commuting. After adjusting for several covariates, walking to work was 3.1% higher for every additional dollar charged foroffstreetdaily parking, but only among more densely populated cities, and no such association was detected for bicycling to work. These preliminary results hint at the potential for parking policies to influence commuting mode choice, a link that city planners and public health officials could consider when evaluating parking policies and active transportation behaviors.

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Whitfield, G. P., Wendel, A. M., & Auchincloss, A. H. (2016). Ecological analysis of parking prices and active commuting in US cities, 2009. Preventing Chronic Disease, 13(9). https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160097

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