Parking
Good parking management has shown to be a game changer in cities, playing a pivotal role in revitalising urban areas. Effective parking policies lead to more efficient use of private cars by reducing car travel and favouring the integration of more sustainable transport modes. Furthermore, they improve access to freight travel and generate revenues for local authorities. At the same time, bad parking management can achieve the opposite, resulting in a cluttered urban space with reduced access to sustainable modes and reduced safety.
The world of parking is changing drastically, through planning and technology, and has to relate to shared and autonomous transport.
POLIS-EPA Partnership
POLIS cooperates on parking issues with the European Parking Association (EPA) to create a better understanding among the different actors in parking activities. The EPA is an umbrella organisation of 19 European national parking organisations. The EPA has established a European standard for parking facilities which is available here.
POLIS and EPA regularly exchange information and expertise about improving city parking. They organise joint workshops and events on parking and release joint policy documents. POLIS has signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Parking Association to facilitate, among other activities, cooperation with local and regional stakeholders to address topics such as parking regulations, EV charging infrastructure, and sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs), as well as curb-space management linked to the deployment of new mobility services and urban logistics.
POLIS Working Group on Parking
POLIS members largely benefit from POLIS’ extensive experience and partnerships on parking issues. The main platform for exchanging best practices in parking management is the Working Group on Parking, which convenes several times per year in online and physical meetings.
POLIS projects
POLIS is currently involved in several projects addressing parking-related priority topics such as eCharge4Drivers, which is linked to the topic of Parking policies and infrastructure for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs); and ShareDiMobiHub, linked to the topic of parking as available space not only for cars but for all types of vehicles that are now on the cities’ streets.
POLIS has been involved in the past in parking and urban-space-reallocation-related projects such as Park4SUMP and MORE.

New Brussels-based study investigates car obesity

European Disability and Parking Card Directives become EU laws

POLIS hosts largest cross-cutting Working Group on urban mobility solutions

POLIS at the EPA General Assembly: Strengthening collaboration on EU policy priorities

POLIS publishes fourth edition of Cities in motion magazine

Save the date for ‘Light vehicles – heavy impacts?’, a joint POLIS WG meeting with ACEM and LENS

Member in the Spotlight: Vic

The insights from the ShareDiMobiHub Academy are now available!

EP and Council reach a deal on EU Disability and Parking cards

POLIS and the EPA sign Memorandum of Understanding for innovative parking policies

A missed opportunity: MEPs and Transport Ministers Fail to Address Parking Regulation Compliance

EU will boost free movement for persons with disabilities

POLIS publishes second volume of magazine Cities in motion!

POLIS publishes new report on dynamic curbside management

POLIS unveils its brand-new magazine ‘Cities in motion’!

An autumn of action! POLIS’ Working Group meetings

Kadikoy Municipality joins POLIS

Park4SUMP releases new SUMP topic guide on parking

New ‘Park4SUMP Final Brochure’ summarises the achievements of the project

Access Working Group explores car reduction, from research to action!

New guide to European and international ITS standards has been launched

FlexCurb engages the urban logistic sector in Leuven

Registration for the Annual POLIS Conference 2022 is now open!

Participate in the new Electric Vehicles survey by EPA and EUR

Registrations for Urban Mobility Days 2022 are now open

Save the date for the Urban Mobility Days 2022!

The International Organization for Standardization formally adopts global parking data specification

3rd POLIS-EPA webinar: Parking goes digital!

SAVE THE DATE for the Annual POLIS Conference 2022

POLIS’ Working Groups: what is on the agenda?

FlexCURB project to enhance last-mile operations in four European cities

Second POLIS-EPA webinar: Off-street parking management

Lisbon, Barcelona, Milan and other cities discuss the future of urban parking

POLIS and EPA launch a new webinar series

Paris is radically changing parking management

May’s Working Group meetings: It’s always sunny in sustainability

Electrifying the Curb: POLIS discusses the future of EV charging

Call for Interest: Curbside Management Services Providers

POLIS members to debate the way forward for cleaner and greener transport in May

Postponement of EPA Congress & Exhibition to 2022

New publication explains how to improve parking standards for sustainable mobility

Get ready for the “one-minute” city

Procurement of parking space monitoring solution for freight in Lisbon

Flexible access & space management working session – presentations & recordings

Large-scale survey on curb side management for passenger and freight

Join us at Autonomy’s Get Our Cities Moving programme

Mobilising Mobility Webinar Series: October

Parking alliance launches new data standards

Post-Lockdown Mobility webinar report: Parking matters — current and future measures in times of COVID-19

COVID-19: Networking must go on(line)

SUNRISE takes you through a neighbourhood in Bremen

Sustainable mobility starts with parking!

Thinking of parking? Be inspired by PARK4SUMP!
19th Congress of the European Parking Association in Malaga: 12 days to the opening

Join the MORE Exchange Forum and contribute to design better road space
A successful INCLUSION mid-term dissemination event in Groningen (The Netherlands)
Do SUMPs promote inclusion and transport justice? Agenda available now!

Making transport more accessible and inclusive for all: new approaches and solutions, 18 June 2019 – Groningen (NL).

Upcoming Polis Working Group meetings in 2019
Just published: Local Opportunities for Digital Parking
Draft programme of 2018 Polis Conference released
2017 Polis Conference: Programme launched and registrations open!
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21st European Parking Conference & Exhibition

Clean Cities, POLIS, Eurocities, and T&E Joint Webinar: SUVs in cities

Light vehicles – heavy impacts? Joint POLIS WG meeting with ACEM & LENS

EPA Parking Day

Intertraffic Amsterdam 2024

The E-Volution: urban space solutions for passengers and freight

Autonomy Paris: Autonomy Mobility World Expo 2023

2022 Annual POLIS Conference

Joint Active Travel & Parking Work Group meeting: Pedal Power meets Parking

ESPORG Online Workshop

Urban Mobility Days 2022

European Parking Association Congress and Exhibition

Go Mobility by MUBIL Tradeshow

EPA-POLIS Webinar #3

POLIS-EPA webinar: 2nd in the series

On-street and kerbside vehicle management: Parking as a tool enabling the transition to sustainable urban mobility

SUNRISE Bremen: Street Space Management – Key for mobility and quality of life

Intertraffic conference

Flexible access & space management working session

Mobilising Mobility: Parking – greener, smarter, stricter

Mobilising Mobility: Dynamic space management – are we there yet?

Mobilising Mobility: Changing the parking fundamentals

Polis Parking Working Group meeting (online)

Roundtable on Safe and Secure Truck Parkings

EPA-Polis Parking Working Group
EPA-Polis-CPA Workshop

Cities in motion – Volume IV: ‘Pathways for Progress’

Cities in motion – Volume II: ‘Leadership for action’
Empowering local authorities towards successful dynamic curbside management

Cities in motion – Volume I: ‘The 15-year city’
Parking standards Freiburg
Park4SUMP: The power of parking management in SUMP planning
Indigo EV Charging Strategy
DB BahnPark

Polis Paper – Parking and Urban Development
Local Opportunities for Digital Parking
Thinking Cities #7
1. Opening statements – local parking challenges by Ivo Cré, Polis
2. How can parking policy change the city? Results from the Madrid parking reform by Sergio Fernandez-Balaguer, EMT
3. How can parking policy change the city? Prague’s parking approach by Libor Sima, City of Prague
4. Getting organised: ESPA on-street award, state of play and next steps by Toni Roig, BSMA and EPA
5. Getting organised: Cooperation for better service provision by Elisio Baptista, Parkeer Service
6. And how can technology help? Feedback from the Polis survey on the use of parking data by Ivo Cré, Polis
7. And how can technology help? Open parking data to help drivers and managers by Sam Friedman, INRIX
A look at the urban mobility of the future by Laurence A. Bannerman, EPA
Polis Position on the upcoming decarbonisation transport strategy
More EU Budget for Transport
Polis-EPA public parking working group meeting – Draft agenda
Uncovering the role technology will have in how we park our cars tomorrow
Summary of main findings of the 17th EPA congress and IPIPS
APCOA hospital‐campus parking
Thinking Cities #5
Member in the Spotlight: Rotterdam’s strategy for electromobility
Member in the Spotlight: Smart Parking in Madrid
Member in the Spotlight: Parking in Madrid gets Smart
Flow? Destination! Polis EPA Parking Paper 2011

eCharge4Drivers
