First step for a smart city? Parking

摘要

The recent but sustained decline in car use in developed cities and countries has become such an accepted fact among most transport professionals that it even has a name - 'peak car theory'. This theory states that car use has reached a peak and will slowly decline as people switch to alternative transport modes. Yet this is contradicted, for example, by the Department for Transport's "Road Forecast" that predicts road traffic growth of up to 55 per cent by 2040 driven by rising incomes, low fuel prices and rising public transport fares.