Abstract The paper is based on research conducted with support from the German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Research Stays for Academics funding. While German cities vary in their transport patterns and mobility cultures (Klinger et al. 2013; Scheiner 2012); they have in common federal laws including those defining the purpose of public streets and the basis of rights to them. This paper examines how such higher-level legal norms and rights relating to public streets shape and constrain parking management across heterogenous German cities. Following Treib et al.'s (2007) typology of modes of governance, the paper argues that certain binding or ‘hard’ federal policy dimensions frame competing claims to curb space. They do so in ways that privilege parked cars as traffic; and that constrain the limited political frameworks within which German cities may vary their approaches to parking. They also define the conditions through which emerging forms of mobility are able to be established (Marsden et al. 2020). The paper draws on interviews, primarily with transport planners, undertaken to compare car parking approaches across 8 German cities with different transport mode shares; and on a desktop review of parking and related laws mentioned in these interviews.

    Highlights Examines how higher-level legal norms and rights shape parking management in German cities of varying transport and mobility cultures. German road laws restrict parking fines and use of revenue, define the purpose of streets as traffic, and define car parking as traffic. Following Treib et al’s (2007) typology of modes of governance, argues ‘hard’ federal policy dimensions frame competing claims to curb space. Implications include high rates of illegal parking; limits to pricing or conversion of street space; and uneven take-up. Road rights privileging parked cars encode 20th century automobility, and define conditions through which new forms of mobility may emerge.


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    Titel :

    Free parking for free people: German road laws and rights as constraints on local car parking management


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    Erschienen in:

    Transport Policy ; 101 ; 23-33


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-11-20


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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