Beijing-parking-ITDP-China

Sizing UpParking Space6m (20 ft)One Parking spaceis 18m 2 (220 ft 2 ).That’s equivalent to...3m (11 ft)1 SmallStudio inParis3 OfficeCubicles1 Low IncomeHousing Unitin IndiaLunch with15 FriendsOn-street parking spaces,but especially off-street carparking spaces consumearound 35m2 (includingdriveways and ramps) inprecious urban areas. Onecar parking space usesthe same space as a smallstudio apartment, threeoffice desks, 15 restaurantseats or 10 bike parkingspaces10 Bicycles 5 Motorbikes 2 Rickshawsthe development, all public space has made wayfor on-ground parking. The places where childrencould once play, elderly could exercise and residentswould meet and chat, have disappeared tomake room for a few residents with a car.4.5 Institutional challengesIt is hard for any government organization inBeijing to achieve positive parking reform, sinceroles and responsibilities are scattered amongmany organizations. Parking prices are set bythe Development and Reform Commission, butthey do this without data on traffic and parking,which are with the Communication Commission.Districts, who initiate paid on-street parking,need traffic police approval and cannot controlthe parking operator, since this responsibility iswith the city-wide Communication Commission.Enforcement is done by the Traffic Police (foron-street) and the Urban Management Office butthese have no capacity, incentive or interest inproper enforcement.Parking operation and revenueCCTV did surveys and found that theparking operation is often not carried out bythe companies who won the right from thegovernment, but they rather rent these parkingspaces out to individual subcontractorsand ask for a revenue target. A parking guardwas interviewed in the Jianguomen area whosaid he works for 16 hours from 7am-11pmand has a revenue target of 20,000RMB permonth from 25 parking spaces. This equalsto 27RMB/parking space/day.CCTV also reports that the Beijing governmentin 2011 published financial data ongovernment revenue from parking concessions.In 2009 this was 33.7 million RMB andfor 2010 21.1 million RMB. CCTV expectsthat the actual parking revenue from payingdrivers is likely to be around 300 millionRMB, so only a small share is given by thegovernment.Source: River City evening newspaper (December2014), Beijing parking revenue: occu-pying thepublic road but who does the revenue go to?,http://www.jcwbw.com/gngjnews/201412/t20141209_327783.htmlBeijing Parking, ITDP-China 1011 March 2015