Reducing the Costs of Mobility

In a new study about the congestions in the access corridors to Barcelona, the Foundation has warned about the increase of the congestion that has reached levels, which are similar to those before the economic crisis, about the negative external factors of traffic jams (individual and collective loss of time and money, and more polluting emissions), and about the need to take corrective measures to reduce the lost time and the related costs.

Another example of the actions carried out by the Foundation to adapt car taxation to the new reality of mobility is a new comparative analysis of the price of blue parking zones, which shows that surface parking in big cities is a great tool to regulate mobility.

Thus, the study places Barcelona once again at the same level of, or even above, the most expensive cities in northern Europe, i.e. those with a higher income level. Barcelona is the European city with the highest value as regards the density of public parking lots per inhabitant, both as regards surface parking and underground parking. The municipal government has turned the regulation of car parking through a fee system into a management tool that allows having an influence on the type of vehicles that access and travel around the city centre, thus reducing the amount of vehicles and, consequently, the respective emissions and pollution.

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ISSN 2013-4371