EMPLOYER-PAID PARKING: A NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS' PARKING SUBSIDY POLICIES. IN: THE FULL COSTS AND BENEFITS OF TRANSPORTATION: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORY, METHOD AND MEASUREMENT

Ninety-five percent of automobile commuters in the United States have free parking at work. To deal with traffic congestion and air pollution caused by parking subsidies, California law now requires many employers to offer employees the option to cash out their parking subsidies. Similar Federal legislation has been proposed. The paper reports on a nationwide survey that found that employers in the United States offer employees 84.8 million free parking spaces. Employers own 65,3 million of these free parking spaces, and rent the other 19.5 million. Employers of fewer than twenty employees provide more than half of all employer-paid parking spaces.