Micromobility and Car Parking

In this episode, Horace and Oliver discuss Donald Shoup’s work, The High Cost of Free Parking, and why micromobility offers such a compelling counter to the dominant mindset that has existed around parking for the last 70 years.

Specifically, we cover:

• the financial and spatial impact of parking minimums in the US

• The Catch-22 of parking legislation - parking creates sprawled landscapes that increases the need for them to move around.

• The importance of pricing parking appropriately

• The odd behaviour that our misplacing of car parks has created in Japan and the US

• the logical use case for autonomy in RV’s if we can’t better price/allocate roadspace

• Why micromobility offers such a fundamental rethink of space allocation and parking requirements