Location
West Palm Beach, FL
Client
City of West Palm Beach
Services
Parking Planning + Policy
Transportation Demand Management
New Mobility
Feasibility Analysis
Signage + Wayfinding
West Palm Beach parking, curbside, and transportation demand management plan
Parking and curbside management is a key component to any downtown’s mobility, and understanding key parking issues and opportunities allow the city to enhance economic development, leverage other mobility options, and guide development patterns to meet their mode split goals. Partnering with Alta Planning + Design, Sam Schwartz completed a parking, curbside, and transportation demand management plan for West Palm Beach focused on enhancing the use of existing facilities, adopting curbside management strategies to better serve all users, and leveraging mobility initiatives in the downtown as a whole.
The mobility plan was unanimously adopted by City Council. It included recommendations to enhance technology and data management at the West Palm Beach Parking Division, pursue partnerships for shared parking agreements, streamline curbside management policies to better manage loading demand patterns, restructure parking rates to align supply with demand, establish a communication strategy to enhance wayfinding and traffic circulation during large events, and adopt parking maximums in the downtown area.