Comments on: Parking economics

By: Club Troppo » A small pricing problem

Club Troppo » A small pricing problem — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:22:58 +0000

[...] public policy has in creating markets or pricing things, whether Pigou taxes, utility prices or parking. This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 2:22 PM and filed under Uncategorized. [...]

By: Amruta

Amruta — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:01:22 +0000

Very interesting article and a vital issue that everyone has been ignoring. I completely agree that parking promotes car use and it should be discouraged. Do you have any more articles that are specifically related to CBD parking for Melbourne? If yes then please post them.

By: hc

hc — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:36:35 +0000

John, Thanks for that – useful links and obviously interesting technology. I’ll read the articles and post again when i get a chance.

By: John Mashey

John Mashey — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:53:04 +0000

You might find Streetline Networks interesting:
http://www.streetlinenetworks.com/site/index.php

Don Shoup is on its Advisory Board (as am I), and at least some of its technology is geared to help cities implement ideas like his.

By: Francis Xavier Holden

Francis Xavier Holden — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:00:01 +0000

I’m not convinced that we in Melbourne have real congestion in our CBD where the parking taxes are. There’s more congestion outside the CBD in selected spots.

By: Matt C

Matt C — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:33:05 +0000

Interesting article Harry. I also have wondered about parking charges at hospitals. It appears that these are in the airports category of extracting monopoly rents. I personally think they can be particularly pernicious given the additional costs of having to worry about parking while you usually have a lot else to worry about while at hospital.

By: hc

hc — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:10:03 +0000

Not always true – people attach very high costs to waiting in traffic as the Henscher et al. paper I cite suggests.

By: conrad

conrad — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:55:52 +0000

The problem with all these suggestions you have on traffic has nothing to do with how reasonable or unreasonable they are (I find most of the arguments quite compelling). The problem is that most people don’t want them and would rather wait in traffic even if it really costs them more. I’m amazed at how impossibly hard it is to convince many people of these types of things, even in places like Sydney where traffic is a disaster.