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Three Policies for Making Driverless Cars Work for Cities

November 6, 2018 By Emily Hamilton

Some urbanists have become skeptical about the future of autonomous vehicles even as unstaffed, autonomous taxis are now serving customers in Phoenix and Japan. Others worry that AVs, if they are ever deployed widely, will make cities worse. Angie Schmitt posits that allowing AVs in cities without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, parking, Policy, Transportation Tagged With: autonomous vehicles, Donald Shoup, driverless cars, parking

Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

May 5, 2017 By Anthony Ling

Marcos Paulo Schlickmann, a transportation specialist and collaborator at Caos Planejado, our Brazilian partner website, recently interviewed Professor Donald Shoup, who answered questions about private and public parking issues. Private parking Marcos Paulo Schlickmann: What is your opinion on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parking, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: congestion pricing, Donald Shoup, parking

Government-Created Parking Externalities

April 27, 2017 By Emily Hamilton

In new research on parking policy in the Journal of Economic Geography, Jan Brueckner and Sofia Franco argue that residential developers should be required to provide more off-street parking in places where street parking contributes to traffic congestion. They argue that because traffic congestion … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, parking, planning, Transportation Tagged With: Donald Shoup, parking

Donald Shoup Takes San Francisco

October 25, 2016 By Sandy Ikeda

 Every so often during his tenure as mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg tried to push through congestion pricing, in which drivers would have to pay to use city streets in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. That’s a popular solution to chronic overcrowding but, like drinking coffee to try to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parking, privatization, Transportation Tagged With: Donald Shoup

Parking Requirements Increase Traffic And Rents. Let’s Abolish Them.

August 17, 2016 By Brent Gaisford

Everybody in LA can agree on one thing - traffic blows hard. Harder, even, than these guys:       Hate traffic? Blame parking. But here’s a secret: people don’t cause traffic. Cars do. And you know what makes people use cars? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Logistics & Transportation, parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup, Los Angeles

Free parking isn’t free

July 2, 2015 By Emily Hamilton

Last week I wrote a piece for City Journal on how smart parking could allow New York City to implement variable pricing. Street parking sensors allow prices to change to maintain an empty spot on each block, as parking expert Donald Shoup recommends. By eliminating the incentive to drive around … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup, parking

Parking is not a public good

July 3, 2014 By Emily Hamilton

Writers at Salon, Slate, and Time have criticized new San Francisco-based apps that allow users to purchase access to a parking spot as another driver is leaving it. The apps MonkeyParking, Sweetch, and ParkModo provide a platform for drivers to let others know when they're leaving a spot, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup

The High Cost of Free Parking Preface and Afterword

August 10, 2012 By Emily Hamilton

This is the last post in the series on Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking. Previous can be found here:Chapters 1 - 4Chapters 5 - 9Chapters 10 - 14Chapters 16 - 18Chapters 19 - 22PrefaceIn these two chapters, which Donald Shoup added for the paperback edition of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture & Books, parking Tagged With: Donald Shoup

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