Improving social equity while optimizing parking enforcement operations

Improving social equity while optimizing parking enforcement operations

Challenge The City of Chicago Department of Finance is charged with the enforcement and collection of revenues, including parking fines. The department issues approximately 1.3 million parking citations annually and administers several programs to benefit disadvantaged motorists. Still, administering the curb is not easy. City parking managers lacked data and made assumptions about when and…

Kicking Inequity to the Kerb: Using Parking Policies to Dismantle Systemic Barriers

Kicking Inequity to the Kerb: Using Parking Policies to Dismantle Systemic Barriers

Transportation has historically been weaponized against marginalized populations, as demonstrated by the “separate but equal” doctrine and the use of freeways and railways to redline black and brown communities. It’s a troubling truth, but there are opportunities to improve fairness as highlighted recently during an IPMI shoptalk, Impartial Parking Policies and Kerbside Equity. Promoting Fairness…