[sustran] Re: contracting out parking to private concessionaires

[Zvi Leve]

I am more familiar with the North American scenario where a city 
'offloads' the maintenance/enforcement of their on-street parking to a 
private company. The private company typically pays a certain price (or 
perhaps an annual fee) for the concession, but they do not have the 
authority to set parking fees. They often can add additional meters if 
necessary and of course will provide more 'robust' enforcement. I am not 
aware of the private companies assuming any obligations on the 'service' 
side of things....

 From a political point of view, I imagine that it isdifficult to allow 
a private firm to charge whatever they thought the market would support 
(plus there are all sorts of social equity issues). This is a 
fundamental issue with transportation planning: is transportation 
infrastructure a public good or not? If yes, then how is it to be 
shared? And who is to pay for it?

Zvi

Walter Hook wrote:
> Lee, 
>
> Well, yes, this is the idea, to bring the price up to market rate.  But
> there is also a question in my mind about bringing parking under the control
> of the state, and into a proper regulatory regime, and of using the money
> for street improvements and maintenance.  After all, you can theoretically
> get at congestion charging through properly regulated parking.  
>
> I should think that if a contract were structured with a private
> concessionaire in an intelligent way, the parking concessionaire would be
> perhaps obliged to provide some sort of public service (street cleaning, the
> construction of street furniture, etc), in exchange for being allowed to
> collect the parking revenues in a particular district.  This would create an
> incentive for the private firm to charge market rate for the parking. If
> there were some sort of quality of service penalties for underperformance,
> maybe this sort of PPP might lead to better public space ,just as
> transmilenio led to better maintained buses.  
>
> I was wondering if anything like this had been tried, to anyone's knowledge.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org at list.jca.apc.org
> [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org at list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf
> Of Lee Schipper
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 6:13 PM
> To: 'Global 'South' Sustainable Transport'
> Subject: [sustran] Re: contracting out parking to private concessionaires
>
> In the days after the fall of Communism in Poland, this seemed to happen
> everywhere. I remember pulling into my hotel in Katowice in my hosts
> car..the parking guy appeared out of nowhere from a mobile home and
> tried to charge my friend for setting me down. Lots of other places had
> contracted out parking. 
>
>
> The point of street parking is that the value of the street is usual
> MUCH more than is charged per hour for parking. A Swedish study (I think
> Jan Owen Jansson) used a hedonic model to see
> how much people in Stockholm valued open space, park benches, etc. From
> that he concluded that the space for on-street parking was worth far
> more per hour that was charged. (We saw this ourselves
> in New York City yesterday, on street metered parking near Columbia U
> for $0.50/hour, while it was $13 for the first hour in a garage)
>
>
> Seems to me it is less important whether the street parking is
> contracted or not, the main point is to make users pay the real market
> value of the land!
>
>
>
>
> Lee Schipper
> Director of Research
> EMBARQ, the WRI Center
> for Sustainable Transport
> 10 G St. NE
> Washington DC, 20002
> +1202 729 7735
> FAX +1202 7297775
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>
>   
>>>> "Walter Hook" <whook at itdp.org> 5/18/2007 6:04:15 PM >>>
>>>>         
> Does anyone have any information/sources for the possibilities of
> contracting out on-street parking to private concessionaires, the
> benefits
> and risks, etc?
>
>  
>
> Best
>
> Walter 
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org at list.jca.apc.org 
> [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+whook=itdp.org at list.jca.apc.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Carlos F. Pardo
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:31 AM
> To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport
> Subject: [sustran] English version: Re: Islamic Bicycles for Iranian
> Women
>
>  
>
> The English version of the brief summary of that news is in:
>
> http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=07
>
> 0517085444.ykmz3ms5
> <http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=0
>
> 70517085444.ykmz3ms5&cat=null> &cat=null
>
> I guess the complete article is not in English. Pretty interesting!
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Carlos F. Pardo
>
>
>
> ciclored wrote: 
>
> The article  is  in spanish, maybe somebody can find the english
> version...
>
> greetings,
>
>  Carlos Cordero
>
>  
>
> (PD/Agencia EFE).- Irán fabricará "bicicletas islámicas" para las
> mujeres,
> pensadas para disimular sus formas
> <http://blogs.periodistadigital.com/tizas.php/2007/05/14/iran_teheran_vigila
>
> nte_velo_ayatolah_isl_7773>  mediante una cabina que cubriría la mitad
> del
> cuerpo. 
>
> "Este proyecto permite fomentar el deporte femenino", señaló Elaheh
> Sofali,
> una de las responsables del proyecto, según informa el diario
> gubernamental
> del país.
>
> Faezeh Hachémi, hija del ex presidente iraní Akbar Hachémi Rafsandjani,
> ex
> responsable del deporte olímpico femenino, intentó el desarrollo del
> ciclismo entre las mujeres en los años 90, pero está decisión no tuvo
> el
> éxito deseado por la oposición de los religiosos conservadores.
>
> EL TELÓN DE FONDO O EL VELO DE FONDO
>
> Como cada primavera, la campaña contra la "vestimenta indecorosa" se
> está
> ensañando con las mujeres, cuyos pañuelos coloridos y cada vez más
> escuetos
> desafían la imposición del uniforme islámico.
>
> Sólo durante los cuatro primeros días de la campaña, 150.000 personas
> fueron
> interpeladas en todo el país, de las que 13 pasaron a disposición
> judicial,
> según informó el jefe de la policía, general Ismael Ahmadi-Moghaddam.
>
> El resto se libraron firmando compromisos de buena conducta que en caso
> de
> reincidencia se aportarán ante el juez. Desde el arranque de la
> campaña, más
> de 3.000 mujeres (una media de 150 al día) han sido detenidas y han
> pasado
> al menos unas horas en comisaría
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> From: Sujit Patwardhan <mailto:sujit at vsnl.com>  
>
> To: edelman at greenidea.info ; Global 'South'
> <mailto:sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>  Sustainable Transport 
>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:50 PM
>
> Subject: [sustran] Re: Oxygen supplies for India police
>
>  
>
>
>
> Like the offer of a "last cigarette" to the man being walked to the
> gallows.......
>
> --
> Sujit
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 5/17/07, Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory <edelman at greenidea.info>
> wrote:
>
>
> *Police stations across the Indian city of Calcutta have been equipped
> with oxygen devices to enable police to offset the effects of
> pollution
>
> *<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6665803.stm 
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6665803.stm%20> >
>
> --
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