The Economics of How Cities Move
The 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 operator, developer, and investor in North America.
Construction is where design intent either gets built correctly or gets value-engineered away. The technology decisions made during this phase — and verified at commissioning — define what the facility can do for the next 20 years.
What if a brand-new, state-of-the-art building constructed today could be functionally obsolete in less than a decade? In the first of a four-part series published in Urban Land Magazine, the Parkonomics team presents a lifecycle-based framework for designing parking facilities that adapt to technological and operational change — from structural decisions and sightlines to the…