Table of Contents List of Tables 4 List of Figures 4 1. INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 Introduction 5 1.2 Need of the Study 5 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 7 2.1 Terms and definitions 7 2.1.1 Parking 7 2.1.2 Parking Space 7 2.1.3 Parking Occupancy 7 2.1.3 Parking Demand 7 2.1.4 On- street Parking 8 2.1.5 Off-street Parking 8 2.1.6 Parking requirement. 8 2.1.7Parking minimum 8 2.1.8 Parking maximum 8 2.1.9 Bundled parking. 9 2.1.10 Unbundled parking 9 2.2 Review of the parking policy 10 2.2.1 Conventional Parking policy. 11 2.2.2 Parking management 12 2.2.3 Market-oriented parking policy 14 2.3 History 15 2.4 Main Themes and Debates 19 2.4.1 The negative effects of minimum parking requirements. 20 2.4.2 The economics of parking 20 2.4.3 Effects of subsidy on public transport 22 2.4.4 Alternatives to minimum parking requirements 22 3. RESEARCH FRAMEWORK 24 3.1 Hypothesis. 24 3.2 Aim: 24 To analyse the impacts of minimum parking requirements 24 3.3 Objectives 24 3.4 Methodolog 24 4. METHODOLOGY 24 5. DATA COLLECTION 27 5.1 Cities studied. 27 5.2 Data collected 28 6. ANALYSIS 39 HI: Low Density Development. 39 H2: Increased private vehicle demand 40 H3: Loss of public transit ridership 42 H4: Subsidize Private Vehicle .43 10 Acre mall 44 Gallops Mall 46 Venus Mall 49 7. CONCLUSION Bibliography 52