“There’s 25,000 square miles of road surfaces, parking lots and driveways in the lower 48 states. If we covered that with solar panels with just 15 percent efficiency, we’d produce three times more electricity than …
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S.F. parking meters to alert drivers when spots are open
The new meters will send messages to smart phones to help drivers avoid cruising in search of a parking space. Read more here.
History of the parking meter
NJ.com offers a brief history of the parking meter, as Somerville, New Jersey phases out its penny parking meters.
WSDOT quantifies the GHG reduction impact of sidewalk coverage.
“If you build it, they will come” seems to hold for building sidewalks. A recent report for the Washington State Department of Transportation found that increasing sidewalk coverage from 30 percent to 70 percent of …
Finding a parking space, and more.
Roadify.com, a parking, traffic and public transportation real-time information application for mobile smartphones, won a $10,000 prize from New York City for the best new app. Not only does it help you find a parking …
Parking spaces add 10% to per-mile carbon emissions
From Sean Slone’s blog on recent reports highlighting transportation and the environment: One thing holding back efforts to decrease the number of cars on the road is the availability of lots of free or cheap parking. …
LEED certification for parking garage?
The Chicago Tribune’s architectural writer asks if it is absurd to call a garage “green.”