I love the NPP idea, hate all those bloody apps. Also, having recently driven by a church in central London that was very sensibly offering parking space contracts, might it not also free up for public use a lot of privately owned office car parks at weekends? Linking to the app and finding a cost-effective payment platform?
I think you'd still need offices to have some infrastructure to manage bookings etc (eg, get the barrier to lift when a car with a booked number plate turns up), but I think you're right about how it could unlock slack in the parking space supply. There are already things like JustPark, which is like AirBnB for parking spaces, but this could help it scale!
The other great parking development in towns has been JustPark - AirBnb for parking - where people with home garages or parking areas they’re not using (sometimes just because they’re away for the day) can make them available to rent by the hour/day. You just look at the map where and when you want to park, and see what’s available. Often far cheaper *and* more convenient than Big Park.
But if they integrated with the NPP system could that optimise town parking even better…?
Yep, love JustPark - basically always use it when I drive into London because the idea of just being able to find a parking space seems unfathomable to me.
I love the NPP idea, hate all those bloody apps. Also, having recently driven by a church in central London that was very sensibly offering parking space contracts, might it not also free up for public use a lot of privately owned office car parks at weekends? Linking to the app and finding a cost-effective payment platform?
I think you'd still need offices to have some infrastructure to manage bookings etc (eg, get the barrier to lift when a car with a booked number plate turns up), but I think you're right about how it could unlock slack in the parking space supply. There are already things like JustPark, which is like AirBnB for parking spaces, but this could help it scale!
The other great parking development in towns has been JustPark - AirBnb for parking - where people with home garages or parking areas they’re not using (sometimes just because they’re away for the day) can make them available to rent by the hour/day. You just look at the map where and when you want to park, and see what’s available. Often far cheaper *and* more convenient than Big Park.
But if they integrated with the NPP system could that optimise town parking even better…?
Yep, love JustPark - basically always use it when I drive into London because the idea of just being able to find a parking space seems unfathomable to me.
Your diagrams aren't too complicated, just too small to be legible – just like the notices of conditions given by some car park managers. JM