Promoting sustainability through practical garage design can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and space conservation promotes pedestrian-friendly spaces. City Parking operates over 150 garages in New York City. Here is more information about designing parking garages with sustainability in mind:
Transit Neighborhood Locations
When designing parking garages, management teams can choose locations near public transit hubs, such as subways or bus lines. This allows drivers to park their cars at the garage and then walk to a connecting hub to attend an event or commute to work. Having convenient places to park allows drivers to plan their commutes more easily and catch their connections on time, helping prevent them from being late to events. This supports a mixed commuting model and promotes eco-friendly mobility, reducing the number of cars on the road at a time.
EV Charging Spaces
Some garages include electric vehicle charging stations in parking garage plans. Electric vehicles offer a sustainable transportation option, as they utilize electric drive functions and do not produce tailpipe emissions when they are functioning in an all-electric mode. Hybrid cars can save energy by reusing the energy used in the braking process. These types of cars refuel through recharging; a charging station requires multiple ports for different cars to use, all connecting to an electric grid. Our maintenance team is able to install EV charging stations in a garage.
Providing convenient spaces to charge electric vehicles in a garage allows drivers alternatives to simply recharging their cars at home. Having more EV charging stations available helps reduce the risk of not finding anywhere to recharge. Convenient charging locations allow drivers to recharge their vehicles after their commute or during a longer workday; this helps encourage the use of electric vehicles, reducing fuel consumption.
Space-Saving Designs
Saving ground-level space in urban areas allows for more land to be used for public amenities or housing development. Utilizing space-saving designs when planning a garage allows for more motorists to park in a compacted area; this reduces the amount of space required for the garage, allowing the remaining space to be converted to green space or pedestrian areas.
There are multiple space-saving design strategies available to use when designing garages. This provides an optimized use of the garage. Designs include:
- Mixed-use development: This refers to garages being included as part of a retail or residential space. The garages are built in the basement area or behind the building, adding convenience for motorists who live, work, or shop in the surrounding space.
- Tiered access: With tiered access, there are staggered entry times for motorists at high-traffic times, such as the end of an event. This helps with traffic congestion.
- Smart layouts: Efficient layouts help improve the flow of traffic in and out of the garage. Techniques include angled spaces, clear paths between entryways and exits, and providing grouped parking sections to help motorists find an appropriate parking place.
Other space-saving options include integrating automated lifts or stackable platforms. Compact-only zones allow drivers to park smaller cars in the space. We manage several garages in mixed-use areas; we also promote efficient layouts through clear signage.
Reservation and Easy Access Systems
Promoting a parking reservation system makes it easier for motorists to find spaces to leave their cars. A driver is able to use an app or a website to find and reserve a space next to their destination. The option to reserve parking spaces ahead of time may lower the number of motorists circling the neighborhood searching for street parking spaces or having to leave full garages. This helps conserve fuel and reduce air pollution. City Parking offers daily and monthly passes for drivers to use, allowing them to return to their preferred parking spaces. Streamlining the entry and exit process can reduce idling; features to help with this include license-plate recognition or self-serve stations. Having the option to pre-purchase a ticket through an app helps save drivers time.
Learn More About Parking Garages
Promoting sustainability through well-designed garages allows for an improvement in local air quality. City Parking offers parking discounts through our loyalty programs, and we allow monthly users to automatically renew payments. Our maintenance team follows a regular cleaning and inspection schedule to keep garages in good condition. To learn more about our parking garages and reservation systems, we invite you to contact us today.