Education
Take an Education @USGBC course to learn more about Parksmart, sustainable mobility, and smart parking structure design and operation.
Courses are available for free, a la carte or through a subscription. This page is your go-to place for official education on Parksmart. We are continuously developing content, so check back often.
Parksmart courses on Education @USGBC
Choose from our selected list of Education @USGBC courses to learn more about Parksmart and sustainable transportation:
Sustainability in Parking and Transportation
Parking and Sustainability; Innovation and Case Studies
This course highlights various case studies regarding the future of parking, new innovations, managing renewable resources and stormwater management in lots and facilities.
Parksmart: An Introduction to Certifying Parking Structures
This course introduces the relationships between parking, transportation and sustainability. It also covers the Parksmart Certification Standard.
Transportation Demand Management: Parking Strategies
Learn about Transportation Demand Management strategies involving parking. This course highlights organizations that have successfully used TDM to improve employee and patron commutes; to improve the overall transportation experience; and to help mitigate parking constraints.
From Asphalt to Green Infrastructure: Transforming Surface Parking
This webinar highlights innovations in sustainability practices that organizations can implement for surface lots and greening the neighboring community.
Greening Communities through Parking
This course highlights case studies on how parking structures can achieve sustainable goals that benefit the surrounding community.
Sustainability in Parking
Learn how the parking industry can support the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. This course covers parking design, facilities and operations based on IPI's Framework on Sustainability and Parksmart.
Bicycle Parking and Storage Inside and Out
This course examines best practices for bicycle racks and shelters for indoor and outdoor bicycle parking and storage.
Parksmart Advisor
Learn how to lead a facility through the Parksmart program. This training covers the management, programmatic, technological and structural elements of Parksmart certification.
Education @USGBC
Parksmart education also is available a la carte or via an Education @USGBC subscription (available for $199, and discounted at $175 for USGBC members).
Subscribing to Education @USGBC gives you access to over 500 courses on the platform, including those related to LEED, WELL and sustainability. All Education @USGBC courses are approved by GBCI. Automated reporting for GBCI and AIA continuing education credits are available whenever you take a course and complete the quiz.