Parking Planning, Operations, and Policy Development

Quite commonly, a driver’s first impression of a city is dependent on their parking experience. The success of businesses and vibrancy of a downtown largely depends on the availability of safe, convenient, and affordable parking. When it comes to new developments, parking plays a key role in numerous deciding factors including size, footprint, financing, and attractiveness of the new development to potential clients. Over the last four decades, TJKM has provided parking solutions in more than 500 studies. Parking studies generally evaluate increased demands for existing projects, or the potential for parking generated by a new development, and then recommends solutions for parking requirements.

TJKM has completed parking studies for office buildings, shopping centers, residential developments, hospitals and medical facilities, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and other transit stations, civic centers, major universities, and other institutional uses.

We have also conducted numerous downtown-area parking and circulation analyses. For these often high-profile community projects, TJKM collaborates with city staff, community and neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders to determine specific issues and develop implementable solutions. TJKM often works with other consultants, such as architects, civil engineers, and financial planning firms to evaluate the feasibility and cost of making improvements to existing parking structures, such as electronic guidance systems.

Specific parking-related services we provide include:

• Evaluation of existing and future parking conditions and facilities
• Parking supply, demand, occupancy, and duration studies
• Parking rates and elasticity studies
• Operational audit and recommendations
• Development of parking strategies
• Parking lot access and circulation analysis
• Parking lot layout and design
• Parking related equipment (Revenue Control System, Parking Guidance Systems, etc.)

Relevant Projects

• Danville_Downtown Parking Utilization Assessment
• Parking In-Lieu Fee Study, Redwood City
• Downtown Parking Plan, Turlock
• Downtown Parking Study, Walnut Creek
• Downtown Parking and Circulation Study, Vacaville
• West Dublin / Pleasanton BART Station and Transit Village Study
• Lake Merritt Parking Study, Oakland
• Chinatown / North Beach Area Parking Study, San Francisco
• San Francisco State University Parking Study, San Francisco
• Development of Statewide Planning Guidelines for 450 Superior Courts, California
• Bayer Campus Parking Study, Berkeley
• Pacific Commons Retail Development Shared Parking Analysis, Fremont
• Renaissance ClubSport Shared Parking Study, Roseville
• Downtown Parking Study, Healdsburg
• Downtown Parking Study, Grass Valley
• Midtown Parking, Access and Circulation Study, Palo Alto
• Traffic and Parking Study for Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View
• Circulation Study for the Downtown Revitalization Project, Pleasanton
• City Hall Parking Design Project, El Cerrito
• Downtown Parking Study, San Carlos
• Traffic and Parking Analysis for State Center Community College District Campuses, Fresno County
• Safeway Gas Station Parking Layout Analysis, Pleasant Hill