A 'fietsvlonder,' or bicycle platform, lets a neighborhood trial the change from car parking to bike parking to get used to the switch—and see if there's a demand—before it's made permanent.

In a parking lot, 'Everything is scaled around the car too, whether that's lights, signs, or even the storefronts themselves,' the expert explained. 'In a city though, everything becomes human scale.' ...

Now, the department has announced it’s received a $120,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop new design standards that could achieve that goal of greater safety.

For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an ...