Design of Parking Interventions and Evaluation Methodology in Housing Area Estates

This paper provides an overview of the current challenges that occur within the design of the urban mobility concept and urban development concept. These challenges are discussed in view of the unique ELABORATOR project, which brings together different approaches and measures in a total of 12 European cities to improve micro mobility and sustainability and prove a concept toward climate-neutral cities. The main goal of the paper is to clearly describe the current state of mobility in the city of Liberec in the Rochlice housing estate area with the main objective focused on parking availability and identification of undesirable phenomena (incorrect parking, exhausted parking capacity, difficult passage for rescue services etc.). Therefore, the definition of ongoing problems is described from default to design and propose strategic interventions towards efficient parking supporting local mobility needs. Parallelly, the evaluation methodology is defined according to the requirements of strategically defined goals in sustainable urban mobility plans and the goals of the project. The proposed methodology reflects in situ measurement, identification of large-scale impacts based on quantitative analysis, and qualitative feedback collection from public events and applied interviews with city residents, and last but not least, the use of shared experiences of cities within the ELABORATOR project. This complex solution is defined to improve parking availability and to measure the real impact of proposed interventions on traffic on dedicated housing estates.