The Micromobility Podcast

In this episode, Horace and Oliver discuss Donald Shoup’s work, The High Cost of Free Parking, and why micromobility offers such a compelling counter to the dominant mindset that has existed around parking for the last 70 years. 

Specifically, we cover:
- the financial and spatial impact of parking minimums in the US
- The Catch-22 of parking legislation - parking creates sprawled landscapes that increases the need for them to move around.
- The importance of pricing parking appropriately
- The odd behaviour that our misplacing of car parks has created in Japan and the US
- the logical use case for autonomy in RV’s if we can’t better price/allocate roadspace
- Why micromobility offers such a fundamental rethink of space allocation and parking requirements

What is The Micromobility Podcast?

Welcome to Micromobility, a podcast exploring the disruption that comes from new lightweight utility vehicles. Using the history of computing as a framework, we unpack what business models and impacts we’re likely to see in transport in cities.