Posted by admin pci,Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Coined ‘Out of the car thinking’, the approach is all about making cities more attractive
for people and less attractive for cars. By raising parking costs, investing in
public transportation, and making cities more livable, you’re solving a
higher-order problem. It’s not the quantity of cars that needs to be parked;
it’s the attitude towards cars and our dependence on them for transportation.
It involves not only changing how we drive
but how we live. Make cities more attractive and people will move there. The
first step – raise parking costs. Make it more difficult to park, and people
will find alternatives and change their habits.
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Posted by admin pci,Tuesday, September 01, 2009
The article, ‘Parking spaces are 'created' by £10 tariff’, proves the point – put prices up, and parking spaces are created! In this case,
it’s a slightly different scenario – we have a hospital with free parking, but
such a demand for parking that available spaces are almost impossible to find.
By introducing a £10 tariff to park over four hours, hospital management
eliminated the local commercial office workers from using the hospital car park
for their daytime parking, and created vacancies in the hospital car parking
lots. Simple and effective! Revenue generation is only an added bonus….
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Posted by admin pci,Monday, August 24, 2009
As letters
continue to rain upon the Mosman Daily’s editor expressing rage over the
introduction of parking meters, you could almost be forgiven for thinking that
everything in Mosman is free.
(For those
of you who are not familiar with the latest developments in PCI’s home ground,
view our recent blog post, A Metered Debate?).
As one
example out of many, lessons can be learned from Santa Rosa, California, where
local council has recently applied demand-based pricing theories to the price
of parking spaces, with prices varying based on how popular the spaces are. And we know how popular those Balmoral
beach front spaces can be!
Santa Rosa
Council has found that instead of turning people away, these strategies have
resulted in increases to local retailers’ overall revenue. There are many
benefits to be derived from the application of ‘Shoupian’ theories (based on
the research conducted by Donald Shoup of UCLA), many of which Mosman council
may wish to consider!
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Posted by admin pci,Monday, August 24, 2009
A three
month seafront celebration in Weston, UK, will see colour-coded car parks
arranged according to vehicles’ colour. It’s part of the summer art festival on
Weston’s Beach Lawns.
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Posted by admin pci,Monday, August 24, 2009
August 13,
8pm in a car park in Sydney’s west. An argument over a car space leads to… a
man being stabbed in the buttocks.
All this
could have been avoided with a good Parking Guidance System, or some civil
behaviour!
He won’t be
reverse parking for a while….
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Posted by admin pci,Thursday, August 13, 2009
The car park at 522 Flinders Lane in Melbourne has recently been sold by ISPT for $38 million to a local private buyer. We understand that the car park comprises around 1200 spaces and therefore this would indicate a price per bay of just over $30,000.
Knight Frank agent Clinton Baxter said that new apartment and office towers were generally adopting lower car-space ratios and new car parks were less likely to be approved by the government, making the opportunities to buy CBD car parks extremely scarce.
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Posted by admin pci,Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Mirvac has announced that it is in the process of disbanding the car park management side of its business, reports The Australian.
According to the article, it is in the process of signing over nine of its larger car parks to Wilson Parking, and handing the management of two of its shopping centre car parks, Broadway and Rhodes, back to the shopping centre owners. Further car parks within hotels of the group will be handed back to be managed by the hotel management from next month.
The Australian reports that Mirvac’s car park holdings peaked at 22 locations last year, and the total number of bays being managed by Mirvac as they look to disband their car parking business is around 14,000 across various sites.
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Posted by admin pci,Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The US Senate recently passed a ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program, allowing owners of old, emission-heavy vehicles, to receive up to USD$4500 when they trade them in for new, fuel efficient vehicles.
It should be noted that such programs have been around in Europe for the last 10 years.
PCI’s foreign correspondent, on a trip to Italy in July, noted that there were hardly any old vehicles on the road - most being new, small models. Indeed, in Italy there is a high take up of the incentives being offered to scrap old and polluting cars. The incentives are issued by the government to drivers wishing to scrap their vehicles (classified as Euro 0, 1 or 2 - based on their CO2 emissions) and purchase a vehicle classified Euro 4 or 5 (with maximum emissions of 140gr CO2/km for petrol and 130gr CO2/km for diesel engines). The amount of the incentive for 2009 is of €1,500 (around $A2,500). Higher benefits accrue for the purchase of low emission commercial vehicles. In addition, car manufacturers offer special discounts and, in certain cases, an exemption from the annual registration charge for up to three years. Similar incentives exist in Spain, France and Germany.
So – is the US actually trying to improve the environment from the evils of its polluting automotive range? Or is it just trying to improve the financial health of its automotive industry given the dire performance over the past 12 months…? Well, we think that an initiative that may contribute to both is well worth it!
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Posted by admin pci,Thursday, August 06, 2009
We came across an interesting article in the Canberra Times this week about the most planned of all Australian cities, Canberra. Architects and sustainability experts are concerned about the increasing rate of urban sprawl in the city, especially in the northern suburbs, and the impact on the city’s future.
”But the more that planning and transport experts promote a compact city to address climate change, counter rising petrol prices, traffic congestion, the high cost of doing business in Canberra, the more it seems the ACT is going in the opposite direction. This city which prides itself on sound planning is spending billions of dollars on new roads, freeways, lakeside car parks and multi-level car parking towers to keep cars as the first mode of transport” says John Thistleton.
This is representative of the issues being faced by most Australian cities and the lack of vision in future-proofing of metropolitan areas. We are strongly of the belief that parking is just one of the elements in a wider transportation and accessibility issue and as long as new car park spaces continue to be built…
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Posted by admin pci,Thursday, August 06, 2009
In another story on Canberra this week, it has been announced that our capital will become the first Australian city and only the third in the world to support electric cars, with an international company pledging to establish recharge points in the capital's homes, workplaces and shopping centres within three years.
The company facilitating the installation, sustainable transport company Better Place, said it would begin work on establishing plug-in points and automated battery ''swap 'n' go'' across Canberra in 2011, with completion of a basic network within 12 months.
There would be sufficient infrastructure in place from the outset to accommodate the early uptake of electric vehicles. He said Canberra had been chosen as the starting point in Australia because of its size, high motor vehicle use, and because it had the highest proportion of garage parking and two-car households.
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