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PCC Research

Peer-reviewed white papers, companion studies, and the Council’s standard reference -- published with persistent identifiers, structured citation metadata, and print editions. Built to be found, cited, and indexed.

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Reviewed before it publishes

Each paper carries its review record: who reviewed it, when, and which version you are reading.

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Structured to be indexed

Citation metadata, a stable DOI, and a linked PDF on every paper -- the shape Google Scholar looks for.

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Free, with a name attached

Readers register once. The Council learns who is reading, and the reader keeps the paper.

Featured white paper

PCC-WP-2026-01 · Open for registration
The Programmable Street · White Paper 01

Reinventing Gridlock

Robotaxis Are Already Reshaping Our Streets. The Question Is Who Steers the Policy.

By late 2025, driverless robotaxis were completing more than 700,000 paid rides a week worldwide. This paper argues the decisive choices about what that deployment does to a city are local -- made in the curb regulation, the zoning code, the operating agreement, and the price of a parking space -- and sets out six levers, in sequence, with Valencia Street and Chandler, Arizona as the cautionary cases.

Andrew Sachs, PTMP  ·  Fernando Sanchez, DBIA
Members, NPA Parking Consultants Council
71 PAGES · 24 FIGURES · 65 ENDNOTES · ≈ 68 MIN READ · IN PEER REVIEW
Read the white paper → Council preview · opens directly. Reader registration begins at publication.
The six levers at a glancePlate The six levers at a glance -- a reader’s map. A weekday morning at a mobility courtFigure 6 A weekday morning at a mobility court -- the curb rebuilt for fleet-scale pick-up and drop-off.

White papers

The Programmable Street program →
PCC-WP-2026-02

The Programmable StreetThe Parking Revenue Cliff That Isn’t One

Who pays for the curb after the meter. The public-finance mechanics behind Lever 1 -- why the revenue cities fear losing is smaller and more volatile than they assume.

Andrew Sachs, PTMP
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PCC-WP-2026-03

The Programmable StreetThe Dedicated Micromobility Lane

A lane for people who are actually going somewhere -- commuters, delivery robots, and the last half-mile the mobility hub depends on.

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PCC-WP-2026-04

Council Guidance · EV InfrastructureRight-Speeding EV Charging

A white paper for communities. Matching charger power and port counts to how long cars actually park and how far they actually drive -- against the mandate trend that requires five times the chargers a city’s PEV fleet can use. The kW-by-land-use table, the twelve-airport survey, and installed-percentage recommendations a jurisdiction can adopt as written. The Book’s Module 64 states the principle; this paper carries the machinery.

Mary S. Smith, PCC Fellow
Peer reviewed by the 40+ members of the Council · Final draft for ballot, May 2026
In ballotingPreview the ballot draft

Companion studies

The Programmable Street program →
PCC-CS-01

Companion StudyValencia Street, San Francisco

How a city loses a good idea. A center-running bike lane, eighteen months, and the consent step that was skipped -- read as a rehearsal for AV curb reclamation.

Andrew Sachs, PTMP · Fernando Sanchez, DBIA
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PCC-CS-02

Companion StudyChandler, Arizona

The first city in the country to zone for autonomous vehicles, and the first to walk it back. Ordinance 5075 and what a formal reversal teaches the cities that follow.

Andrew Sachs, PTMP
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Companion StudyBerkeley · Westwood · continuing

The series extends city by city through university partnerships, each study carrying the white paper’s framework into one corridor’s actual record.

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Parkonomics white papers

Published in cooperation with the Council
PARK-WP-2026-01
Parkonomics · In cooperation with the PCC

Plugging In Wisely

What every parking operator, property owner, and municipal manager needs to know before partnering with an EV charging company. A due diligence guide built on the argument that EV charging is a software business masquerading as a hardware purchase, rewritten for the expiration of the Section 30C credit, NIST Handbook 44 §3.40 enforcement, and OCPP 2.1.

Andrew Sachs, PTMP
Member, NPA Parking Consultants Council · Peer reviewed by the 40+ members of the Council
40 Pages · 3 Figures · 7 Tables · 42 Endnotes · ≈ 70 Min Read · 2026 Edition, Revised August 2026
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PCC Reference · Working demonstration built · In Council author review

The PCC Book of Parking

The industry’s standard reference, rebuilt as a modular living edition -- the successor to Dimensions of Parking, recast as 74 standalone modules across 8 parts, with one free module opening every part, continuously maintained by the Council and cross-linked to every paper in this section. Included with NPA membership; by the module or by the year for everyone else. Presented to Council leadership at the September 2026 convention.

Visit the Book → Edited by Andrew Sachs, PTMP · Peer-reviewed by the Council
NPA Parking Consultants Council The PCC Book of Parking The standard reference for parking planning, design, operations, and the autonomous transition. Living Edition · 2026