1. Malin Henriksson, PhD, Researcher
What are the travel habits and needs of those who use multi-storey car parking for everyday commuting in Linköping?
Malin Henriksson, PhD, Researcher

2. An activity-based approach to parking
If we don’t take the everyday practices of people into account, policy will have limited effect

3. Trends affecting the built environment
Urbanisation
Compact cities: risning house prices, attractive for whom?
Peri-urbanisation, urban sprawl
Car dominated planning
Consequences for the everyday travel habits?

4. Interview study: why do you park here today?
49 interviews (+ 10 ”trial” interviews ) in multi-storey car parks in a middle-sized municipality
Themes for the interviews: parking habits, travel habits and the everyday life
The interviews provide insight in the complex everyday life of people who use multi-storey car parks on a frequent basis

5. Five key mobility types
The sustainable traveller
The comfy motorist
The stressed-out motorist
The countryside motorist
The ”I need my car at work”-motorist

6. The sustainable traveller
”It might as well be more expensive to park, then we will get rid of the cars!”

7. ”I want to be flexible. I don’t want to let the clock run my life”
The comfy motorist
”I want to be flexible. I don’t want to let the clock run my life”

8. The stressed-out motorist
”I’m already in the riskzone of not managing my everyday life at all”

9. The countryside motorist
”For us who live on the countryside the car is necessary. Without it we wouldn’t be able to work in the city. Everyone on the countryside reason like I do”

10. The motorist who drive at work
”If I could’nt park in the city it would affect my employer, but not me”

11. Results
The driving motives for car commuting is linked to structural elements in the everyday life
Attitudes about different modes of travelling matter, but not to a great extent
People travel sustainable when they can, and drive car when the must

12. Implications for policy
Parking policy should encourage travelling with different modes of transport, rather than cementing continuous car use, e.g. expensive montly tickets
Will parking policy aiming at changing travel behaviour have negative effects for people with highly complex everyday life, rather than curbing car use?

13. Further reading
(swedish only)

14. Thank you for the attention!
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