April 9, 2008.
California Office of Traffic Safety Summit
San Francisco, CA.
May 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Bloomington, MN
June 23, 2009
Driving Assessment 2009
Big Sky, Montana
June 26, 2009
PRI World Congress
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 27, 2009
Day of Architecture
Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 13, 2009
Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
Phoenix, AZ.
August 12-14
Texas Department of Transportation “Save a Life Summit”
San Antonio, Texas
September 2, 2009
Governors Highway Safety Association Annual Meeting
Savannah, Georgia
September 11, 2009
Oregon Transportation Summit
Portland, Oregon
October 8
Honda R&D Americas
Raymond, Ohio
October 10-11
INFORMS Roundtable
San Diego, CA
October 21, 2009
California State University-San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center
San Bernardino, CA
November 5
Southern New England Planning Association Planning Conference
Uncasville, Connecticut
January 6
Texas Transportation Forum
Austin, TX
January 19
Yale University
(with Donald Shoup; details to come)
Monday, February 22
Yale University School of Architecture
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Friday, March 19
University of Delaware
Delaware Center for Transportation
April 5-7
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
McMurrin Lectureship
April 19
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (Organization Management Workshop)
Austin, Texas
Monday, April 26
Edmonton Traffic Safety Conference
Edmonton, Canada
Monday, June 7
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Wednesday, July 6
Fondo de Prevención Vial
Bogotá, Colombia
Tuesday, August 31
Royal Automobile Club
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, September 1
Australasian Road Safety Conference
Canberra, Australia
Wednesday, September 22
Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s
Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Program
Statewide Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wednesday, October 20
Rutgers University
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Piscataway, NJ
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre
Injury Prevention Forum
Toronto
Monday, May 2
Idaho Public Driver Education Conference
Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, June 2, 2011
California Association of Cities
Costa Mesa, California
Sunday, August 21, 2011
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Attitudes: Iniciativa Social de Audi
Madrid, Spain
April 16, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Gardens Theatre, QUT
Brisbane, Australia
April 17, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Centennial Plaza, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
April 19, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne, Australia
January 30, 2013
University of Minnesota City Engineers Association Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 31, 2013
Metropolis and Mobile Life
School of Architecture, University of Toronto
February 22, 2013
ISL Engineering
Edmonton, Canada
March 1, 2013
Australian Road Summit
Melbourne, Australia
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February 19th, 2010 at 9:54 am
The parking revenue need not be lost. Some cities have learned that their parking enforcement officers can write a ticket and be long gone in the time it takes for the driver to walk the half-block or more, do whatever needs to be done with the machine to make the payment and get a receipt, and then walk back to the car.
What about pay-by-phone methods, whereby the driver enters a parking meter or parking stall number and it gets billed to their account, phone bill or credit card? That sounds a lot simpler than those stupid central kiosks.
February 19th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Awesome! If the people who drive around looking for coffee stop filling parking spaces, than the business that sell good and services that people actually need will have more available parking.
It’s really sad that people would rather pay a dollar each hour rather than walk half a block. (To your parenthetical ending, I bet they also take the elevator to the 3rd floor of the gym to use the stair-master…)
February 19th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
At first I thought this blog was about getting a parking ticket while walking to the kiosk. I went to college with this guy. Disappointing.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
In most places feeding the meter every hour is illegal. You may only stay for one maximum payment period, and then leave the zone for at least as long as the max payment period.
This is seldom enforced currently, but with plate readers in the parking wardens vehicles these days we should be seeing more fines.
February 19th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Without knowing if my reasoning for doing this same question was broached, I am going to at least partly assume that part of the reasoning is the worry that your going to get a ticket WHILE getting the parking voucher from the pay kiosk.
Here on Staten Island, this did become an issue awhile back, and if I am not mistaken was even covered in the local paper. When I had to visit a sick relative at the hospital in question, I would resort to typically parking many blocks away to avoid that hastle of worrying about getting tickets. And sure enough, there would be ticket agents strolling the area with the ticket kiosks.
Additionally, a quick google search is already finding a bunch of news articles talking about just such a thing, wherein people receive parking tickets while waiting on long lines at the ONLY parking ticket kiosk located on an entire city block. Philly seems to be having a real problem this winter with thier new system.
I really don’t think this is a point about people being cheap for the sake of being cheap. I think it’s about people being cheap so that they don’t continue to subsidize the goverment, or in Chicago’s case Morgan Stanley.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
This makes me think of the people who circle the parking lot looking for a spot up close. 9 times out of 10, I can park in just about any spot they passed-up and walk into the store while they are still circling.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
The only solution to this problem is to assign property rights to all roads and parking spaces.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
It seems like there is a period of adaptation at work here. People had gotten used to parking at, and feeding, a meter. But with the new system of payment, a new approach to parking is required. I live in Chicago, and if I know that I’m going to park at a metered location, I will look for the paybox and park close to it. In fact, in some situations, I will stop before I get to my destination (if I know I will be parking far from a paybox), and get the dashboard receipt at an open paybox several minutes from where I’m going to park.
While unhappy about what we Chicago taxpayers got as part of the privatization deal, as a driver I appreciate the effect of pricing the scarce good (parking spots) and the innovation the is driven by the profit motive. (I can’t imagine the department of parking ever converting to payboxes.)
February 21st, 2010 at 10:56 am
You’re never going to get people to stop making those cost/benefit analyses, even if their perception of the cost is completely skewed. Honestly though, I can’t really find fault in the first example given, which seems to boil down to “Hmm, I’d like a latte, but it would take longer to walk over and pay for parking then it would to go in and get the drink. Eh, guess I don’t want it that badly.” The same situation would have occurred if there had been meters, but the nearest parking space was a block away, and the person would have been right in judging that the thing they wanted (a hot drink) was not worth the extra time and hassle. If the driver had needed to stop for something more serious, something they actually needed instead of just wanted, then the walk would have been worth it.
Really, what is the point of making all spaces in an area pay spots if it isn’t to modify people’s behavior in this way? Removing free parking makes more spaces available at any given time of day, but how do you think that happens? You didn’t generate more spaces out of thin air, all you did was change the cost/benefit ratio for drivers, so people are thinking more about parking and it’s costs, if they can maybe get to work by bus, and if they really need that coffee they were going to “zip in” and get.
February 21st, 2010 at 12:08 pm
In a lot of European cities like Amsterdam where I live in it is becoming increasingly popular to pay via your cellphone. Either via text message or by calling a number. There is small fee involved, but it saves time, and more importantly you only pay for the amnount of time you actually stayed in the spot…
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:05 pm
There’s a lot that can be done. Pay-by-phone is one example (making it easier) but there are many arguments that street parking should not be subsidized, nor limited unless the businesses want to do either of these.
ie. street parking should be the same rate as other parking (if there is other parking) and while it might have a time limit, it should be paid for by the actual time you use. Ie. you should be able to “log out” of the parking spot (at the meter or by phone) and pay only for the time you used/get a refund if you prepaid for time.
Right now cities lose revenue from people whose meters expire and are not caught, but they make revenue from everybody who overpays at the meter and leaves before it expires. (At least at meters like the central ones where you can’t pass on your extra time to the next car.)
Subsidized parking increases car use, which may or may not be the goal of the city, of course. Retailers want to encourage all ways to get to them. If validation because really trivial they will do it. By really trivial, I mean that, for example, while in the Starbucks you wave your cell phone over a box and it subsidizes your parking.
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:42 am
In most European countries payboxes have been used for over 20 yrs. They work extremely well – people are of course given a time to walk to the paybox, pay, walk back to car. You can pay with coins or credit/debit card. Pay for the time you need the spot – in some cases there are time limits.
Payboxes are obviously far more cost effective in the long run to install, maintain and manage than individual meters.
I can see the advantage with high tech electronic systems but these would only seem to be warranted in major city centers with v high parking charges.
It seems unbelievable that people in the US are unwilling to adapt to a new system.
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
the revenue is not lost as long as the city keeps targeting that magic ’85% of available parking’ number.
i actually don’t believe the story is or was true for more than one time — the driver would learn her lesson and learn to park and walk to the meter and pay.
part of driving a car nowadays is it’s going to mean you’re going to have to become more and more obedient to authority. you already work your job just to pay for your car, but now you’re also going to have to pay for some of the externalities of driving that you never had to pay for before. i love it.
it also reminds of all the “I’m moving to Canada!” false promises when Bush became president. in this case, it’s ayn randian/faux-i-hate-the-irs-terrorists/the-city-will-fail-without-my-genius-and-money outrage. boring.
February 24th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
I hadn’t heard about the central kiosks before, but then I live in the burbs, where our downtowns still have actual meters. I have about no confidence at all that American parking authorities won’t use the kiosks as super revenue generators by stationing parking cops where they can ticket cars while the drivers go to the kiosks.
The nearest downtown to me has five parking garages with free parking for the first two hours, so if you want to go to dinner or do some extensive shopping you can do that for free or a minimal charge so long as you’re willing to walk a few blocks, which frees up (expensive) curb parking for people who just want to do a quick in and out at a merchant.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 am
I think the Kiosks are great actually, never had an issue with them. However I am not a big fan of the dial in spot only options, I do not own a phone, and do not plan to in any way any time soon, what am I suppose to do if I need to park in a pay by phone area?? I think the Kiosks need to be there but also have the pay by phone option to make sure everybody is included.
that also said, Americans are lazy and typically wont walk the block for the Kiosk, but one benefit is old meters can now become bike parking!!