Fleet Staging

Fleet staging is the parking of shared autonomous or ride-hail vehicles between calls: an overnight home base for charging, cleaning, and maintenance, and daytime waiting zones convenient to demand. In a parking facility:

A driverless fleet still has to wait somewhere between fares. Fleet staging moves that idle time off the revenue curb and onto cheap off-street land, holding cars in reserve and dispatching them to demand. Where they wait is becoming a parking question. Illustrative.

Staging converts off-peak garage capacity into contracted fleet revenue.
Cities want idle fleet vehicles off-street; operators want locations minutes from pickups.

Considerations

Staging contracts should price power, dwell, and turnover separately. Fleet staging is the new monthly parker: contracted, predictable, and negotiated.