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Paying for Parking

We engineer our roads to accommodate traffic, but cars and other vehicles spend almost all their time parked. All those parking spaces - and finding them - cause huge economic, environmental, and even social problems. Dave Redel searches for a good spot to survey the situation....

We engineer our roads to accommodate traffic, but cars and other vehicles spend almost all their time parked. All those parking spaces - and finding them - cause huge economic, environmental, and even social problems. Dave Redel searches for a good spot to survey the situation.


Participants in the Program:


Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA, author of  The High Cost of Free Parking.

John Van Horn
, Editor & Publisher,  Parking Today magazine, Los Angeles.

Todd Litman, Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute.

David Hill, Manager of Transportation Planning, MMM Group, Calgary.

Andrew Velkey, Professor of Psychology, Christian Newport University, Virginia, researcher in predator behaviour in parking.

Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor at MIT, author of  ReThinking a Lot:The Design and Culture of Parking.


Related Websites:

Parking Today

World Parking Symposium

Victoria Transport Policy Institute


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