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Looking Ahead: The Future of Parking Garages - Merwin claims that futuristic parking garages should have two key facets: increased floor to floor space and level floors. He recommends parking garages have a 15-foot gap between each floor, so they can be repurposed later on as residential, retail, office, or loft areas. Building these forward-looking parking garages would require ...

The Value of Smart Cities - When you think of smart cities, one of the first things that springs to mind is autonomous vehicles driving along a wide expanse of road - but what about the smaller, more subtle technology that allows cars to drive and park themselves without being preyed upon by parking enforcement officers.

In the Office: CEOs dish on how technology can change Austin's daily commute - Technology has the potential to radically change workers' daily commutes, from a hyperloop that can whisk people between cities at hundreds of miles per hour to autonomous cars that efficiently navigate the road, avoiding congestion and accidents. But just as influential will be ...

New York City CTO: Technology Must Strengthen And Empower Communities - Decisions can no longer be made in silos - Feldman reminds business and government leaders to socialize their plans, objectives and strategy to a wider audiences using digital channels like social networks, websites, apps and digital outreach programs ...

What are the scary ripple effects of autonomous mobility? - Parking is another common expense with a poor consumer experience. The omnipotence of autonomous ride-sharing cars will lead us to have fewer parking lots away from high-density areas where mobility service providers can park their automotive fleets when demand is low. Close to half of our urban areas are dedicated to parking ...

5 industries to gain the most from 5G - Although there are tremendous benefits to 5G, this new technology will take many businesses out of their comfort zones ... The smarter city promises the connection of the city’s systems. Joined-up public transport services, dynamic traffic management, smart parking meters and smarter road infrastructure will all support the arrival ...

What are the 10 key things that make a city smart? - After Mobile World Congress and IoT World earlier this year, there was a lot of buzz about 5G, smart mobility, general IoT, and smart cities. It feels like we’re entering the future, and the excitement is palatable. Unfortunately, there are many soldiers on the battlefield without a plan ...

INRIX Study: Parking Costs Angelenos $3.7 Billion A Year - “Our country’s parking pain has widespread impact – on drivers, cities, the economy and the environment. Thankfully, it’s a problem that can be improved through education, technology and partnerships.” said Bob Pishue, senior economist at INRIX ...

Cultural Revolution – Driverless vehicles will dramatically change the commercial real estate landscape - With driverless cars inching closer to becoming a major presence on U.S. roadways in the next decade, the commercial real estate industry prepares for some major changes. Driverless vehicles are coming, and coming fast. Many of the world’s largest and most prestigious corporations are investing billions in the technology ...

Parking Reform Has Big Implications for Sustainable Transit — and for Ride-Hailing, Too - Few people have been leading the fight for parking reform like Donald Shoup, retired UCLA urban planning professor and author of “The High Cost of Free Parking,” and Jeffrey Tumlin, director of strategy at consulting firm NelsonNygaard. Robert Steuteville interviewed the pair recently for the Congress ...

"Death by Parking" by JVH, is available now for purchase on Amazon.com - From the Isle of Islay to the Isle of LA! - BOOK REVIEW: ‘Death by Parking: Book One’ by Astrid Ambroziak - If you want to have some fun with parking and learn about LA, its history and its top PI team, pour yourself a double Laphroaig, settle in, and read JVH’s “Death by Parking: Book One.” You will forget your problems of the day past, and relax while going on an outback journey with the Mannings, Private Investigators ...

Tech in the City: the smart cities of today and the future cities of tomorrow - It is time to smarten up. With IoT devices popping up where we live, work and even eat, the future cities of tomorrow are being ushered in today. What exactly that city should look like was up for debate at the two-day ‘Smart to future cities’ conference in London. While speakers disagreed on what a successful smart city is ...

Are smart cities the way of the future? - What is a smart city? The breadth of technology that’s been implemented under the smart city label makes it difficult to define. “A smart city is a city that has developed some technological infrastructure that enables it to collect, aggregate and analyze real-time data and has made a concerted effort to use that data to improve the lives of its residents ...

Chris Urmson Reflects On Challenges, No-Win Scenarios And Timing Of Driverless Cars - When Chris Urmson talks about driverless cars, everyone should listen. This has been true throughout his career but it is especially true now.Few have had better vantage points on the state of the art and the practical business and engineering challenges of building driverless cars. Urmson has been at the forefront for more than a decade ...

How to fix L.A.'s failed parking policies by Ethan N. Elkind, Mott Smith - For more than five decades, local leaders throughout Los Angeles County have been trying to manage parking by managing development. They have failed at both. Fourteen percent of L.A. County — over 200 square miles — is now dedicated to parking. In fact, 40% more land is reserved for parking than for the entire roadway system in L.A. ...

What Smart Cities of the Future Will Look Like - The emergence of Internet of Things technology is driving the development of smart cities in many booming metropolitan areas around the world. The visions that planners have for these cities are bold—from autonomous buses and free Wi-Fi throughout Barcelona to LED streetlights in Los Angeles that have sensors to monitor their conditions ...

Untold Stories in the Parking Industry - With all the talk of alternative transportation, it’s easy to forget that a majority of people in the U.S. rely on cars every day. Though we now talk about development corridors popping up around light rail or subways, highways have pushed development beyond city centers for decades. With those easy, fast roads comes the need for a place to park when drivers get where they’re going ...

Smart Cities Are About People - Cities are organisms, not machines: The growing appreciation of the importance of cities, especially by leaders in business and science, is much appreciated and long overdue. Many have embraced the Smart City banner. But it seems each observer defines “city” in the image of their own profession. CEOs of IT firms say ...

Self-driving cars will disrupt more than the auto industry. Here are the winners and losers - Over the next five years, self-driving vehicles will become pervasive. This month was just a glimpse into the future with Tesla passing Ford and General Motors in market value, Daimler and Bosch partnering for autonomous vehicle development and Ford announcing it's on track for a fully autonomous vehicle by 2021 ...

9 radical changes that are coming to transportation - We’ve gotten used to transportation technology improving at a glacial pace. Today’s cars and airplanes look and work about the same as they did 25 and even 50 years ago. But two announcements this week made it clear that the pace of innovation in transportation is about to accelerate dramatically ...

Reduced and More Accurate Parking Requirements by Todd Litman - For each dollar motorists spend on their vehicles somebody spends more than a dollar to park it. To reduce these costs many jurisdictions are eliminating or reducing parking requirements and encouraging more efficient parking management. You can too! Motor vehicle parking is costly [pdf]. Considering land, construction ...

The Incoming Privatization Assault - In this model, there’s plenty to be wary of—just ask Chicago. In 2008, former Mayor Richard M. Daley signed a 75-year public-private partnership with a Morgan Stanley–led consortium to operate the city’s parking meters, which puts taxpayers on the hook for any city decision that eliminates parking spots. If Chicago throws a street fair ...

The Rise of the Smart City - Officials are tapping all kinds of data to make their cities safer, healthier and more efficient, in what may be just the start of a sweeping change in how cities are run. Cities have a way to go before they can be considered geniuses. But they’re getting smart pretty fast. In just the past few years, mayors and other officials in cities across the country ...

How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl: Don’t let people park for free - And then, unfortunately, there’s the car park. For 14,000 workers, Apple is building almost 11,000 parking spaces. Many cars will be tucked under the main building, but most will cram into two enormous garages to the south. Tot up all the parking spaces and the lanes and ramps that will allow cars to reach them ...

The Evolution Of Point-Of-Sale - Charlie Youakim, Sezzle - E-commerce is still in its infancy. Currently, it only makes up 8.3% of sales in the USA. But I believe that’s about to make a radical change. We’re on the cusp of dramatic change because point-of-sale commerce is about to hit the accelerator towards e-commerce. In 5 years time ...

The Reports of Parking’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated - Richard Simpson, ParkPlus System - I was reading an interesting article called The Self-Driving Car Will Kill the Parking Garage Dead by Nick Lucchesi. While I don’t disagree with the general sentiment I do think people are getting very caught up in the hype. I attended a recent session at PIE in Chicago called Market Launch Conundrum for Autonomous-‘Driverless’ Vehicles by Dale Denda ...

Parking Spots Are Still Hot Property, But Ride-Sharing Is Changing That - Thanks to the rise of on-demand ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, the need to have a car (and a parking space) is lessening even for daily commuters. A recent study by NerdWallet found that in 7 of 11 cities including New York, Washington D.C., and San Francisco, commuting to and from work using UberPool was cheaper than owning and driving a car ...

Smart city projects have CIOs on the hunt for new business models - Becoming 'smart' is on every city's agenda these days. But what projects should be extended beyond a pilot phase and how cities should fund the initiatives remain unclear. Smart cities are a typical internet of things story: Sensors are cheap, the cloud is readily available and vendors ...

Employed in Parking? Here’s Where You Might Be in 5 Years - For All Those Interested in Employment in the Parking Industry. Picture this: It’s the roaring 20’s and you’ve driven your car into downtown to do some shopping. You get there and want to park – but there are no available spaces! People who work in the area had taken all the stalls in front of the shops ...

Meet Michael Houlihan, One of our Key Note Speakers at PIE 2017: WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD AMERICA’S LARGEST WINE BRAND, WITH BAREFOOT WINE’S MICHAEL HOULIHAN & BONNIE HARVEY - Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey do not fit the stereotype. You probably wouldn’t even expect them to be wine-lovers, let alone the co-founders of Barefoot Wine, the largest wine brand in the world. But according to them, the reason they’re so successful is precisely because they knew nothing about the industry going in ...

Job Hoppers: To Hop Or Not To Hop by Kathleen Laney, LaneySolutions - It’s not exactly a secret. Recruiters and hiring managers have a long history of rejecting “job hoppers.” After all, it’s expensive hiring and training new employees. So why take a chance on someone who isn’t likely to stay? The answer is simple ...

How I Changed Commuting Culture at Lyft by Evan Goldin - Instead, we pushed forward a simple, radical new approach: Charge employees to park by leasing each spot to a specific employee on a monthly basis. Taking a page straight from Donald Shoup, America’s parking guru, we felt this approach would solve a myriad of problems in one fell swoop. First, it would create predictability in the parking lot ...

The Self-Driving Car Will Kill the Parking Garage Dead - Autonomous, electric, sustainable, and accelerated transportation technologies change human lives and landscapes – mostly for the better ... Reasons for the decline of the parking garage are many, and the rise of ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft are top-of-mind, but the autonomous car is what will ultimately make them extinct ...

Barter, Goulston, Houlihan — When They Speak, People Listen - JVH Parking Today Media - Barter, Goulston, Houlihan. What a terrific group of speakers we have lined up for PIE 2017. I’m going to tell you what makes them terrific, but you may not like it. These three have attained the zenith in their respective fields. They know what they are talking about. They are going to tell you about parking, your employees, and your organization ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Parking Today Media - ParkNews.biz is on a Christmas Break - we will not be posting any news from Thursday, Dec 22nd, 2016 till January 3rd, 2017

Buckle Up: Everything our industry thought it knew about parking could be set to change as consumer car habits evolve, especially in more urbanized areas. The underground garageIn multifamily and mixed-use development, we design as much for cars as we do for people. Parking requirements ...

The FinTech effect and the disruption of financial services - The Fourth Industrial Revolution brought the convergence of the physical and cybernetic worlds, and the digital technologies that came along with it have created new paths of innovation that have disrupted the once known as the most traditional business model: the financial services industry. Will banks and financial institutions survive the arise of the FinTech era?