Parking Is Hell Analysis

Parking is Hell Donald Shoup, an urban planning professor at UCLA and a parking guru explains that the price of parking is too low. Cars spend 95% of their lifetime parked, yet parking causes so many challenges, takes extra time, causes confusion, and contributes to pollution. He says that prices for parking should be increased to the price at which 1 to 2 parking spots are left open on every block. He described the SF parking system that changes parking prices depending on location and time of day. This method, called dynamic pricing, would change based on the demand for parking at different times of the day and in different locations. As many people find incentives not to pay for parking, such as the misuse of disabled passes and credentials,