San Francisco is about to roll out the dynamic pricing pilot for parking - both on-street and in city-owned garages - that they’ve been working on for a couple of years. The idea is to keep at least 15% of on-street parking available by adjusting the pricing up and down based on demand. If parking gets too crowded the price goes up (and back down when spaces open up). An interesting by-product is that they will make the inventory of open spaces available in a real-time data feed, updated every 60 seconds. It will be interesting to see what developers do with it.
— Transit Appliance creator and Igniter Chris Smith blogged his takeaways from TransportationCamp West, What I Learned At TransportationCamp.
