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Yes, private cars spend 95% of its time idle on parking. One solution is car sharing, which need 4-8 times less parking space: http://svedic.org/philosophy/car-
by ZeljkoS 9y ago
Yes, private cars spend 95% of its time idle on parking. One solution is car sharing, which need 4-8 times less parking space: http://svedic.org/philosophy/car-sharing-and-the-death-of-parking http://svedic.org/philosophy/car-sharing-and-the-death-of-pa...
- sleavey 9y agoI'd be careful about such statements. A reduction in bus usage in favour of car sharing (which is more comfortable and private) might mitigate any traffic benefit from reduction in individual car owners.
- Twisell 9y agoIt's actually complementary I never bought a car because I live in a city center. I use bike for small hops, public transport for commuting to work, and occasionally I use car sharing when needed.
- pouetpouet 9y agoExactly, as soon as you pay per km and time, you make a choice for each trip about which is the best tool for the job.
- kqr 9y agoYeah, that's an important point to raise. When we say cars are bad for the environment, we don't just mean that they are inefficient in terms of their consumption of limited natural resources. They're also bad for the local environment in that they are noisy, take up a lot of space on the road, require vast areas for storage, cut neighbourhoods up with roads, kill people by impact and so on. Sharing would solve at least some of these problems.
- chongli 9y agoThe problem with car sharing is that people tend to use their cars all at the same time: morning commute, afternoon commute, evening errands/leisure. If you go out at 3am you'll see hardly any cars on the road. Rush hour? You'll hardly see any bare pavement.
- CalRobert 9y agoThis is a claim that would benefit from some data. There's certainly enough traffic during the day to suggest people aren't _all_ driving at the same time.
- awjr 9y agoIt's called the tidal wave effect and is the bane of public transport planning. You have to provide buses/trains to cope with rush hour when you make most of your profits, but then have no choice but to run the stock during the quieter day time. However it is used effectively in cycle track design. A 4m wide bidirectional cycle track can become effectively omnidirectional at rush hour significantly increasing capacity in one direction.
- miahi 9y ago* unidirectional
- mcv 9y agoBut the existence of rush hour means that a lot of people clearly are driving at the same time.
- Retric 9y agoSuppose only 50% of cars are part of rush hour. Now ride sharing can only cut parking by that same 50%. A less optimistic 75% means you can only cut parking by ~25%. Depending on the city these numbers may be high or low. However, one passenger ride sharing increases total miles driven. So in ultra congested city's it can actually make things worse.
- Twisell 9y agoThis issue is not limited to time sharing. It's equally inefficient to stack individual cars on highways during rush hours. Public transport is the best answers, but even so rush hours is still hard to manage. Rush hour is a global issue that could actually be mitigated by more flexible schedules and increase in remote work. So we shouldn't try to solve it by transportation alone. Interestingly jobs that can't be remote (factories, etc) usually already use alternative schedules that avoid office rush hours.
- Toenex 9y agoThis is another big selling point for automated vehicles. Why park your car in an expensive car park when you can just send it home - many journeys are round 5 miles in the UK (https://www.licencebureau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/road-use-statistics.pdf https://www.licencebureau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/road-use-...). Even better send the thing off to earn money as a taxi (I'm sure Uber are thinking this) or on some errands (bye, bye home delivery, hello home collection).