Demand responsive parking pricing is awesome!

One of the key initiatives in Auckland Transport’s Parking Discussion Document is the expansion of “demand responsive parking pricing” beyond just the city centre and out into places where people struggle to find a parking spot at the moment. Here’s how it’s described in the document: As Auckland grows, the demand for the limited supply of on-street space will intensify.…
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Parking guru on National Radio

There was an interesting interview of parking guru Donald Shoup – author of “The High Cost of Free Parking” – on Sunday morning’s national radio. You can listen to the interview here. Mr Shoup makes some excellent points, recognising the highly political and somewhat irrational feelings which are related to parking.…
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The need to “unbundle” parking

In typical fashion, I am reading about 14 different books at the moment – one of which is the excellent “The High Cost of Free Parking” by Donald Shoup. In some respects, this is one of the most important planning/transport books that has been written in many many years in my opinion – because it looks at an issue that has a huge impact on the structure of our cities and on the way transportation functions, but for some reason has been almost completely ignored by both land-use planners and by transportation analysts.…
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