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Long-form analysis that follows the money behind one parking, mobility or development question, with the data, the history and what an owner, operator or city should do next.
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LatestDevelopment and Parking Ratios · Operations and ProcurementDesigned to Park, or Designed to Impress?Why parking expertise in management, operations, technology, and design must be at the table before the first blueprint.Read the report →12 more reports, newest first
Development and Parking Ratios · Operations and ProcurementDesigned to Park, or Designed to Impress?Why parking expertise in management, operations, technology, and design must be at the table before the first blueprint.
Curb and PricingThe Lane Always FillsDuranton and Turner proved that new highway lanes fill up one for one. Fifteen years of research since shows why, and the answer runs...
Development and Parking RatiosSanta Monica’s Height Fight Is a Parking FightThe argument over how tall new buildings should be is really an argument over how many cars each apartment is built to hold. Santa...
Operations and ProcurementThe Evolution of Parking ManagementHow capital, software, transactions, and AI are turning the parking operator from a labor reseller into a technology-enabled asset partner, and what it means...
Compliance and Technology · Curb and PricingGhost Plates and the Broken Gas TaxA license plate is a 124-year-old credential anyone can forge. That single flaw is draining billions from tolls, taxes, and the roads themselves.
Curb and PricingNobody Cares About Your Bus LaneThe parking and transit industry has a marketing problem, not just an infrastructure problem.
Development and Parking RatiosThe Generational SkipHabits formed in early adulthood tend to persist for life. That single fact from behavioral economics should reorganize how we decide what to build,...
EV ChargingThe 45,000-Gallon Misunderstanding: What UL’s Landmark EV Fire Study Actually Tells the Parking IndustryFSRI's 18-vehicle burn program is the most authoritative EV fire research ever conducted. It debunks the panic, indicts the fire blanket, and hands parking...
Development and Parking Ratios · EV ChargingThe Evolution of U.S. Parking Structures in 2026A practitioner's analysis of how electrification, automation, and AI are reshaping U.S. parking structures into mobility ecosystems in 2026.
Compliance and TechnologyBartholomew v. Parking Concepts: LPR Privacy Compliance and the New Liability LandscapeA California appellate court ruled that parking operators using LPR technology without a published ALPR privacy policy face $2,500-per-individual liability. Parkonomics analyzes the decision...
Curb and PricingNew York Priced the Road. Now What Does Los Angeles Do?A one-year audit of America's first congestion pricing program, and the uncomfortable questions it raises for every city still pretending the problem will solve...
Curb and PricingPricing the Curb: How LAX Can Get More From Its $30 Billion InvestmentLos Angeles is in the midst of the largest public works project in its history, and LAX's new people mover and transit connections can...
Autonomy and Robotaxis · Operations and ProcurementUber Acquires SpotHero: Why the Biggest Ride-Hailing Company in the World Just Bet on ParkingThe deal isn't about parking convenience. It's about who controls the physical infrastructure layer of autonomous mobility, and what that means for every parking...No reports on that topic yet.
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