Key findings from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Red & Blue Line Corridors Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Parking Study offers new insight from local data on parking use, supply, and management.
See the linked report for additional details.
1
Most TODs are significantly overparked
13 of 16 sites never peaked above 80% utilization over the course of the
72-hour data collection periods.
Excess parking capacity in these 13 sites totaled over 4,500 spaces.
2
Affordable housing and office uses are particularly overparked.
Affordable housing development had peak utilization of 50% or less.
No office-dominant TOD surpassed 65% occupancy.
3
Most TOD parking supplies exceed requirements.
4
Free parking is the norm.
A majority of the parking provided is offered free of charge.
The current median prices of a single parking space in an above ground garage is over $17,000.
5
Shared parking can work.
Availability was plentiful among the studied mixed-use facilities.
For 10 of the 16 sited, shared-parking model outputs came closer to observed peak-occupancy demand.
