Parking is among the most discussed topics in local politics, with citizens and business owners frequently concerned about supplies being too low. This paper by Rachel Weinberger and Joshua Karlin-Resnick looks at parking supply and usage in 27 mixed-use districts around the country, the largest sample of districts examined in this type of study.

The findings, which conclude that parking is oversupplied by 65% on average and by 45% in areas where the explicit purpose of the study was to ease a parking shortage, were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. in January 2015.