ITE members benefit from the work conducted behind the scenes by the ITE Technical Programs Division at ITE Headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, often without knowing it. This monthly column seeks to better inform our members of the technical products, services, and partnerships that are being developed, facilitated, and supported by ITE Technical Programs Division staff.
Updating ITE’s Parking Generation Manual and NPA’s Shared Parking Guide
ITE and the National Parking Association (NPA) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on the development of the ITE Parking Generation Manual and the NPA Shared Parking Guide. These tools were last updated in 2010 and 2009, respectively. ITE Technical Programs Division staff will be working with NPA to develop these products in coordination to ensure consistency and ease of use for practitioners. By harnessing the collective experience of both organizations, the goal is to publish definitive parking guides that will usher in the next generation of best parking practices. Parking Generation Manual is expected to follow the lead of the modernized, updated, and expanded Trip Generation Manual, 10th Edition. The analyses in Parking Generation Manual will differentiate the levels of parking demand observed at rural, general urban/suburban, dense multi-use urban, and center city core sites.
Similar to Trip Generation Manual, Parking Generation Manual will be available in hard-copy, electronic, and cloud-based formats in order to cater to the format that works best for users. ITE staff also intend to produce a web-based app (ITEParkGen) that enables a user to produce parking generation data plots and statistics for the complete database as well as filtering by year and location. Shared Parking, 3rd Edition will provide a perspective on case studies and real usage of parking assets. The Parking Consultants Council of NPA working with sponsors the Urban Land Institute and International Council of Shopping Centers, are collaborating to bring current, real-world data and examples of shared parking uses of parking assets that will provide insight into the future of parking through both print and online content.
This month, ITE and NPA staff have issued a joint call for data (see page 12 of the April issue of ITE Journal). After the call for data, ITE Technical Programs Division staff will convene a panel of parking demand experts to guide our efforts and assist in the technical analysis. ITE staff will compile all submitted parking demand data, classify the setting for each site in the database, confirm the validity of each data submittal, evaluate the statistics associated with the expanded database, and develop text and data plots for the anticipated hard-copy, electronic, and WebApp products. The target date for delivering the two products is early 2019. Stay tuned to all of ITE’s communication channels for continual updates related to these resources.
From the April 2018 issue of ITE Journal