A parking place today has changed from the birthright of the car owner to a scarce commodity that has to be paid for. Along with that we have come to realise than an attractive city-centre or other (urban) area mostly does not comply with much cars parked around. On top of that we have come to know that controlling parking to some extent means controlling car-usage. Slowly though recognisable the numbers of parking places are being reduced. A problem though is that not all parties involved accept this in advance. In this paper it is argued that a restrictive parking-policy is possible and even advisable and that such a policy has no negative effect on business. Yet because of a shortage of research results in this field, an international research effort (within the EC's COST-framework) is (A)
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