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...]
Government-Created Parking Externalities
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...]
Parking is not a public good
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...]
The High Cost of Free Parking Preface and Afterword
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...]
The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 19-22
This post from the series on The High Cost of Free Parking is reposted from last week because the site's database caused recent posts to be deleted.Chapter 19: The Ideal Source of Local Public RevenueIn this chapter, Donald Shoup makes the case that passing up the potential revenue source of … [Read more...]
The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 5-9
This post follows on the earlier discussion of the first four chapters of The High Cost of Free Parking.Chapter 5- A Great Planning DisasterShoup sets up parking requirements as a great planning disaster. If an individual developer chose to dedicate more of his land to parking than his … [Read more...]
The High Cost of Free Parking Chapters 1-4
Here's the first installation of Market Urbanism Book Club, covering the first four chapters of Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking. If you've read the book previously or are reading along, please share your thoughts and questions in the comments.Chapter 1:Shoup outlines the unusual … [Read more...]
A far-too-long rebuttal of Randal O’Toole on parking
Donald Shoup and Randal O'Toole – they just can't get enough of each other! Donald Shoup, you may recall, is the granddaddy of free market parking policy, and Randal O'Toole is the self-styled Antiplanner. Though they both claim to be libertarians, they seem to have some pretty fundamental … [Read more...]