In the context of assisting municipalities to revise the Inter-municipal Local Urbanism Plan - PLUi- of metropolitan territories and the revision of the Paris PLU, Apur has documented and compared the norms and regulations linked to the parking of motorised vehicles in real estate projects.
Since the end of the 1990s in Paris and 2000 in the Metropolis, the decline in the number household car ownership observed has provoked a reduction in the need for parking space in buildings and has confronted some car-park managers with difficulties in marketing parking spaces. In addition, the link between the use of private cars and ease in parking has been demonstrated in many surveys. Also, public policies have taken on the job of managing parking as a tool for controlling the use of motor vehicles.
A parking place for a car represents 10 to 12.5 m² (exterior to traffic circulation). Controlling the parking of private vehicles can therefore contribute both to developing more sustainable forms of mobility and moving towards a reduction in the surface area taken up by parking thereby reducing the construction cost and enabling this space to be used for other purposes.