On-street parking is defined as parking and garaging motor vehicles at ground level, along and in the street or in a car park. Wanting to implement effective parking policy, municipal authorities often face the question of how they should go about drafting qualitatively solid parking policy. This publication offers guidelines, facilitating the development, implementation, organisation, management and assessment of effective on-street parking policy. This publication is comprised of three sections: policy development, policy implementation and organisation, management and assessment. Section on - policy development - distinguishes the following three points: the procedural steps leading to policy development are addressed, the legal foundation of parking regulation is brought into the spotlight, and the various possible policy themes are discussed. The focus on the second section is policy implementation. The last section explains the management tasks (maintenance of parking equipment and signposting, security, operation and management) and examines the possibility of outsourcing the various activities more closely. Obviously, each parking policy document should dedicate time to monitoring and assessment. The goal of a parking assessment is to determine afterwards the extent to which the proposed objectives were achieved. If necessary, policy adjustments can be made or supplementary measures taken.
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