We’ll see. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, an electronic system will relay information about parking availability in three downtown Smart Park garages to a sign at the foot of the Morrison Bridge. Details in the Daily Journal of Commerce.

If there is such a thing :-) The PSU Quarterly Journal on Urban Development (I got it by e-mail, I have not yet found a link) has an interesting article on underground, multi-block parking development (PDF, 1.9M). The virtues of this form of parking are: It’s underground and out of sight. It’s more efficient from…

IEEE Spectrum has a nice round up of new information technologies to make parking easier. We have a local example at PDX where there are now signs and lights to help you find that elusive empty space… And also on the local front, the City of Portland has issued a press release on how those…

The Daily Journal of Commerce reports on a study that found an excess of parking in downtown Beaverton. This creates an opportunity for the Beaverton City Council to lower parking requirements for development, helping spur higher density redevelopment. Pretty soon Beaverton could have a real downtown!

The Daily Journal of Commerce notes the increase in the amount of valet parking in Portland, and the lack of any regulatory framework for valet parking. One of the many tragedies of the collapse of the NW Parking Plan was that it included a mechanism for a TMA (Transportation Management Association) to manage issues like…