Self-driving cars may someday drop off their owners downtown and then leave to find free parking. What would that mean for cities of the future?
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The global trend is to free up valuable city space by reducing parking and promoting other forms of transport that don't clog roads and pollute the air. Australian cities are still putting cars first.
Cities must manage all the competing uses for limited roadside space to avoid congestion and maximise efficiency. And that begins with reliable data.
Australian cities have a glut of parking, even as politicians move to protect parking spaces or promise even more. There are better ways to keep congestion manageable and our cities liveable.
The Commuter Car Park Fund announced in the budget sounds big, but is likely to create only around 30,000 extra spaces – a marginal benefit for Australia's 1.2 million daily public transport users.
An increase in the use of self-driving cars will change parking infrastructure in cities, and hopefully result in more colourful character neighbourhoods.
The workplace parking levy is a simple idea, but tricky to implement.
If cities had backed their active transport goals with investment in adequate cycling infrastructure we might not be having the arguments about dockless bikes 'littering' public space.
There are thousands of empty parking spots in cities. So what can we do to make better use of this space?
It will be hard to adjust. Considering what happened with the onset of car travel and web surfing, society can't just wing it.
Looking back through all Melbourne's strategic plans from 1929 onwards, it becomes clear that the 20th-century legacy of car-centric planning and its focus on parking is still deeply entrenched.
Human-operated cars affect health in three main ways, all negatively. How might driverless cars be healthier?
Cities around the world are starting to rethink the vast areas of land set aside for parking. The convergence of several trends likely will mean this space becomes available for other uses.
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Transport Planning, University of Melbourne
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Research Officer, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professorial Fellow, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University; Emeritus Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego
