Report: Parking: It's what your car does 90 percent of the time

Report: Parking: It's what your car does 90 percent of the time:
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We may love our cars, but we certainly don't spend much time with them.



The 2012 Emerging Trends in Parking survey by the International Parking Institute reveals a number of interesting facts about the place the vehicles we love spend the most time: Parking spaces.



According to the survey:

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  30 percent of most traffic in a city comes from people looking for parking spaces.
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  Most cars are parked 90 percent of the time.
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  Urban planners, architects and politicians are the three groups most in need of a parking expert.

While often an afterthought, creating good parking spaces is essential in creating a more efficient, more sustainable and even more walkable environment. Parking lots need to be easy to enter, a breeze to leave and easy to pay for. If not, parking can make any place a frustration for someone to visit or live, the survey points out.



The survey also says emerging technology has become more important to parking planners, as they look for ways to electronically pay for a parking space, locate spaces while in a car and better plan urban spaces. It's obvious when you think about it, but only then. Our parking lots on the whole, it appears, need a lot of work.
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