Nantucket residents and visitors struggle with parking during the summer tourist season. Our goal was to propose improvements to parking management in the historic downtown in collaboration with the Nantucket Planning Office and the Civic League. We interviewed stakeholders and surveyed homeowners to understand the preferences and concerns of residents. We found that lack of turnover, along with employee parking, are the primary causes of parking difficulties and, contrary to expectations, a majority of respondents favored paid parking as part of the solution. Finally, we propose short, medium, and long-term recommendations, such as the implementation of new technology and the improvement of alternative transportation, to improve the parking management.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Hosea, Richard Douglas
• Lanotte, Nicholas John
• Alvarez, Shannon S
• MacLeod, Angela

Subject

• Sustainability
• Well-Being
• Infrastructure
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121317-204544

Keyword

• Transportation

Advisor

• Vaz, Rick
• Golding, Dominic

Year

• 2017

Center

• Nantucket, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Nantucket Planning Office

Date created

• 2017-12-13

Location

• Nantucket

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright