Drivers and residents parking in most on-street parking spots Downtown are noticing a steep increase in parking rates at the digital meters.

I am not proposing that we rid our streets of the ability to stop or park. What I am seeing, rather, is the need to adapt the way we utilize this scarce resource.

An Isle of Palms plan that barred non-residents from most streets on the barrier island is being revoked by the S.C. Department of Transportation.

Cities are coming around to the idea that on-street parking should be managed and priced based on the demand for the space. San Francisco, for example, created SFpark, a program that adjusts the prices of 7,000 parking meters to achieve a target occupancy rate for on-street spaces, and received much praise among transportation policymakers and professionals. Yet as on-street parking management programs garner attention, cities routinely build off-street parking garages at great cost with scant public scrutiny. Other than recovering the cost of building and maintaining the garages, cities co...

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A surprising amount of traffic isn’t caused by people who are on their way somewhere, but by those who have already arrived and are looking for a place to park.

Everyone knows that driving on the streets of New York can be challenging. Parking your car there is even more formidable. For two hours of off-street parking in New York City, you have to shell out $37. In fact, per day off-street parking rates are the highest in the Big Apple, with an average price of $47.34.

The County Board approved a test of surge-price parking in Arlington on Tuesday, after discussing the potential impacts on people with lower incomes. The $5.4 million project is funded by VDOT, and the funds are expected to cover everything from developing to installing the needed parking softwar

COVID-19 has been catastrophic for public transit. Plunging fare and tax revenues are forcing drastic cuts. In a guest post for SPUR, two UC Davis law professors suggest that there’s a solution right under our feet: Make private drivers pay market rates to park on the public’s roads. And yes, they argue, it’s legal.

ities and towns face a massive hurdle to managing their curb space: the lack of a uniform way to define the curb and its users. Without a universal curb standard, it’s difficult for local governments to coordinate with each other and private entities and assess the effectiveness of their curbside management policies. Participants in our Smart Cities Collaborative joined together to develop five principles that should inform any universal curbside language and standards.