The key challenge tackled by the NXTLVL ("NeXTLeVeL") Parking (NLP) project is that of promoting and ensuring efficient, greener and sustainable urban mobility. The overall project objectives are to reduce car use in CE functional urban areas and to improve the provision of sustainable alternatives, and more liveable environments, by the wider use of parking management: managing, rationing and pricing on and off-street parking so its cost becomes more transparent to drivers and thus influences their travel choices.
The project is innovative in several ways. The use of parking management as strategic tool to influence travel demand is uncommon in CE cities; the project aims to change this so that cities understand how to use it as a key plank of their Sust. Urban Mobility Plan. Key means will be a novel parking policy audit tool, ParkPAD, to prioritise improvements in a city’s parking policy; and cross departmental, cross city-limits and multi-stakeholder groups to develop a consensus on future parking policy, and the new parking measures needed.
The ParkPAD tool itself will be improved so that other cities can use it and will benefit from an improved, more effective parking policy that is broadly accepted.Guidance documents in all partner languages and extensive nat. & transnat. trainings transfer the most important results to interested followers free of charge.
The NXTLVL Parking project is financed by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE programme.
Project numbers:
11 project numbers
8 countries
10 regions
2,01 million € ERDFfunding
Project partners:
Cracow University of Technology (Lead Partner)
City of Olomouc
Municipality of the 9th District of Budapest
VISION5 OG
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
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