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The industry's standard reference, rebuilt for the way the industry actually works now. The successor to Dimensions of Parking becomes a modular living edition -- 74 standalone modules across 8 parts, each one a complete answer to one working question, continuously maintained by the Council, peer-reviewed author by author, and cross-linked to every white paper, companion study, and glossary term in PCC Research.
A bound book is right the day it prints. Every module here carries its revision date, its review record, and a currency register behind it -- the dated figures (cost pars, code editions, cap rates) are tracked as verification items, so a code-cycle change propagates through the work instead of waiting for a reprint.
Stable URLs at the module level, a source crosswalk mapping every section to the manuscript it came from, and one visible source line under every figure. A consultant can cite it in a study, a city attorney in a staff report, and the link still resolves.
Each module is 1,200 to 2,500 words, standalone, and ends in a Verdict -- the practitioner's answer in bold. Members read everything; everyone else buys the module their project needs this week. The eight free modules are the open door.
The old table of contents asked where a topic lived. This one asks what the reader is trying to do. Eight parts follow the life of a parking asset -- from the study that justifies it to the fleet transition that will remake it.
Demand, studies, shared parking, and the pro forma. Whether the garage pencils, and how to know.
Multimodal planning, pricing, siting, programming, and conceptual design -- the demand number becomes a building.
Functional design and geometrics: the design vehicle, stalls, modules, ramps, and the architecture people actually experience.
Codes, fire protection, structural systems, durability, budgeting, and delivery -- the part the permit set answers to.
Accessibility, wayfinding, signage, lighting, and ventilation: the systems that decide how the building treats a person.
Operations, agreements, budgets, PARCS, monthly parking, and the digital shelf where drivers now find parking.
Maintenance, restoration, risk, safety, security, and cyber -- the decades after opening day, funded and inspected.
EV charging, fire behavior, automated systems, sustainability, and the autonomous transition the asset must survive.
Nothing publishes until the contributing authors, Council leadership, and the editor have each signed. Author review sets for all 74 modules are in circulation now.
Editorial fixes, factual refreshes, and substantive changes are tracked separately -- a typo repair and a changed recommendation never travel under the same signature.
Every dated figure in the work -- cost pars, code editions, regulatory statuses -- is a tracked verification item with an owner. The register is what makes "living edition" a process, not a promise.
Every part opens with one complete free module -- full apparatus, no registration wall -- so a reader can judge the work before buying it, and a search can find it. Three of the eight:
The peak of the sum, not the sum of the peaks -- and the $70 million worked example that explains why owners commission the study.
Table 208.2 as a lookup, the van ratio riding on top, and every fraction rounding up -- with the calculator to run it.
Every path water takes is a maintenance line item now or a restoration project later. The module the deferral curve wishes you had read.
Also free: #13 Site Selection · #22 Why Compact-Only Spaces Failed · #35 Construction Budgeting · #47 Revenue Beyond the Gate · #64 EV Charging Fundamentals
The Book of Parking is a benefit of belonging -- every NPA member reads the full living edition with their member account, at no additional cost.
Buy the single module your project needs this week, or subscribe annually for the full edition -- consultants, cities, universities, and suppliers who need the standard reference without the full membership.
You're signed in as an NPA member. All 74 modules are drafted and in Council author review; the September demonstration will open the free tier and a working sample of the member edition, carrying the full apparatus -- Verdicts, crosswalks, figures, and the currency register behind them.