17 March 2012

Spot Pricing ~ SF's Dynamic Parking Meters...

Michael Cooper and Jo Craven McGinty write in the NYTimes of A Meter So Expensive, It Creates Parking Spots...
"San Francisco is trying to shorten the hunt with an ambitious experiment that aims to make sure that there is always at least one empty parking spot available on every block that has meters. The program, which uses new technology and the law of supply and demand, raises the price of parking on the city’s most crowded blocks and lowers it on its emptiest blocks."
Nice! Here's the initial coverage...

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