Salzburg

Post date: 2010.12.4 21:04:57

In Salzburg (Austria; 140,000 inhabitants), comprehensive before-and-after studies (Koch, 1991) were conducted to clarify whether car traffic reductions and

easier parking for the essential share of car traffic were achieved. All on-street parking spaces – without any regulations until then within the expanded inner city

(3,400 before and 2,000 after; besides these there are 7,100 off-street spaces) – were in 1989 converted into shortduration spaces for 90-180 minutes between 8 a.m. and

6 p.m. with fees collected through a parking ticket machine. The new regulations (there are exemptions for residents) are enforced by 13 employees. The average occupancy decreased from 85 to 76 per cent, the average parking duration from 169 to 124 minutes; 50 per cent of all parked cars have residential permits. Average turnover during 13 hours increased from 6 to 8.5. In areas with high demand for short-duration parking, this resulted in more car traffic despite an average decrease of the number of spaces by 23 per cent. But in total, car traffic in the city’s core area decreased by 5.5 per cent which is assumed to result from less search traffic.