Parking

A 2019 law legalizing

The city council voted for the change in November, as part of a larger push led by Progressives and Black activists over the past six months to shift funding and responsibilities away from police.

R Rawlings, Vestre Ltd, discusses how COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst for transforming urban spaces, and why introducing parklets could be the way forward

Power Switch: Fourth in a continuing series about the German energy transition. BERLIN—In Germany, you can go almost anywhere on a train. Inside this city’s glass-enclosed central station, trains from the local transit system arrive on the upper level from all over the region, their doors opening to disgorge the morning commuters. Down several turns of an escalator […]

In shoreline metropolitan regions, summer means beach season. Public beaches in urban and suburban areas serve multiple purposes: vital shoreline ecosystems, recreational amenities, vital spaces for cooling down during hot summers – especially for households without air conditioning – and open spaces for the public.

Philadelphia City Council passed a bill lowering the city’s parking tax. The move would roll back progress on meeting city goals and generating revenue at a time of financial crisis.

Digitising the kerb opens the door for more dynamic regulations and new approaches to kerb-usage fees that could enable more goal-driven management strategies.

Parking infrastructure is pervasive and occupies large swaths of land in cities. However, on-demand (OD) mobility has started reducing parking needs in urban areas around the world. This trend is expected to grow significantly with the advent of autonomous driving, which might render on-demand mobility predominant. Recent studies have started looking at expected parking reductions with on-demand mobility, but a systematic framework is still lacking. In this paper, we apply a data-driven methodology based on shareability networks to address what we call the “minimum parking” problem: what is...

As car-sharing, ride-sharing and self-driving vehicles transform urban mobility, what use can we put the space once devoted to vehicles doing nothing?

Smart Columbus said the Pivot and ParkColumbus apps now give users the ability to pay for multiple trips, find parking Downtown and in the Short North

Jon Burke, the London Councillor for Hackney responded to Britain’s plan to ban all gas and diesel vehicle sales by 2030 by pointing out that this only addressed half the issue. In an…

Shortchanged holders of bonds told parking company owes $34 million in interest alone on unpaid rent and other debts to the city. A possible deal to build a home for the NYCFC could stop the bleeding — if the Yankees and lot owners can make peace.

The City, the web publication with the ungoogleable name that was funded with Craig Newmark’s guilt money over accidentally destroying newspapers, ran an article last night headlined “Yankee Stadium Parking Lot Woes Block Soccer Field Goal, Cost Taxpayers Millions.” This is a subject that should interest FoS readers on a couple of levels — the New […]

The French capital wants to replace 70,000 parking spots to improve air quality and make the city more eco-friendly and sustainable for its residents.

As the city struggles to balance the 2021 budget in the face of a worsening pandemic, councillors are coming to grips with a steep drop in revenue from the Toronto Parking Authority. Coun. Brad Bradford calls the figures "staggering," but not surprising.

Strategies > Transportation Demand Management > Parking Availability and Pricing

Many transportation problems are virtually unsolvable without efficient road and parking pricing. When people say "I oppose road tolls," they are really saying "I support traffic congestion." Here

ADU demand skyrockets in jurisdictions that removed regulatory barriers.

While glimmers of hope about an impending vaccine glimmer in the future, the coronavirus still rages on. The toll the pandemic has taken on people’s lives and health will be difficult to measure for a long time coming, but there is no question that our livelihoods and norms have changed. One hopeful outcome has been...

Instead of free parking, our post-COVID CBDs need a big vision to become attractive destinations that aren't car-friendly at the expense of being people-friendly.

The holiday shopping season is heading into full swing and so is an annual program that helps thousands of stu...

Suggestions from advocates for closing a $68 million SFMTA deficit

Deploying automated traffic enforcement systems can free up law enforcement resources to be allocated in communities where they are needed most.

CEDAR RAPIDS - Park Cedar Rapids, the company managing the city's paid parking downtown, has laid off many of its employees to cope with a sharp drop in revenue because the pandemic has paused large events and forced many downtown employees to work from home.

We are thrilled to announce we completed all the deliverables for the Autonomous Valet Parking project and have successfully completed the project both on time and on budget.

Designers, artists and contractors have sprung into action to help restaurants and to spark ideas about what public space could look like.