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Friday, August 6, 2010

San Francisco's new automated demand-based parking pricing

One day, posts will return with some frequency.

I have been wanting to write about parking for a long time but... have not. However, San Francisco is unveiling a new parking management system that works on the premise of market-rate parking, whereby prices increase (or decrease) depending on demand -- usually so that ~90% of spaces are always occupied. In SF's case, they aim for one free spot per block.

This sort of parking strategy can provide a myriad of benefits (as demonstrated in the video) as well as increase revenues for -- as utilized in other cities -- local area improvements (public space aesthetics, etc.).

Anyways, check out this video...


SFpark Overview from SFpark on Vimeo.

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