Giuliano Mingardo

Erasmus University Rotterdam | EUR · Department of Applied Economics

Mobility hubs are increasingly mentioned in urban planning and transportation policies as a potential solution for keeping urban areas accessible in the context of growing population and promotion of sustainable mobility. Yet, an overall academic conceptualisation of mobility hubs in the form of a typology is still lacking. This study contributes t...

Congestion and pollution are common urban challenges. Among many policy measures, carsharing has been advanced as an instrument to mitigate adverse consequences of urban mobility. Municipal authorities have responded differently to its promises: some actively promote carsharing and public–private collaboration, others leave this to the market. Like...

Parking policy has long been considered an important tool for the management of urban mobility. One of the major policy dilemmas that urban planners face is the choice between short term versus long term parking i.e., the choice between a parking policy that stimulates short term parking [usually up to 2–3 h] and a policy that stimulates long term...

Understanding the impacts of tourism on the quality of life of residents is a priority for the sustainable tourism agenda, and is especially relevant to the COVID-19 recovery period. However, the evidence is poor, and it is not clear whether the outcomes vary among sociodemographic groups. This study fills this gap by proposing a pan-European analy...

For the past few years, the Netherlands has been experiencing a new phase in the debate on parking standards: Namely, the case of extremely low minimum off-street parking requirements for new housing developments (e.g. 0.2 or 0.3 parking spaces per house). The object of this chapter is to describe this new phenomenon, analyzing its origin and discu...

Both Revenue Management (RM) and Dynamic Pricing (DP) are common practices in many industries—e.g., airlines and hotels—but they are still relatively unknown in the parking sector. In Europe, with the exception of for airport parking and in some pilot tests, DP is rarely used by private parking operators or local authorities. The main objective of...

Transport investment schemes tradition- ally have to undergo appraisal in order to prove their value for money to funding agencies and also in order to justify the expenditure to electorates. Ex-ante appraisals can also be used to assist in the measure selection process by providing an indication of the costs and benefits of specific policy or infr...

Park and Ride (P&R) facilities have become increasingly popular in many European metropolitan areas. Despite its popularity, however, the real impact of P&R has been criticized by many who suggest that P&R can have little or even negative effects on car use reduction. This is mainly due to the so-called unintended effects, the most familiar being t...

We estimate welfare losses of policies that provide on-street parking permits to residents almost free of charge in Dutch shopping districts that are predominantly downtown. Our empirical results indicate that parking supply is far from perfectly price elastic, implying that there are substantial welfare losses related to underpriced parking permit...

Facing climate change challenges, many local governments worldwide became active deploying green urban transport policies (GUTP). By doing so, their central objective was to curb CO2 emissions and manage the latent tension between accessibility, mobility and quality of life. However, in some cases, those policies indirectly foster the localized dev...

In the retail sector the dogma “no parking, no business” is often used to describe the importance of parking for the performance of shopping areas. Accordingly there is a growing pressure on planners to increase parking capacity and/or reduce parking tariffs in and around shopping areas. This paper contains a cross-sectional data analysis regarding...

Successful modern cities must combine high levels of accessibility and quality of life. These aims may conflict with each other: increasing accessibility could be detrimental to the urban environment while the improvement of urban air quality might mean restricting the accessibility of the city. The challenge for cities in the 21st century is to ma...