Parking Problems: Motor Vehicle Parking Violations Vastly Surpass Scooters and Bikes

Motor vehicle parking violations in the US vastly surpass scooters and bikes Electric scooters operate in more than 100 cities in the US and many more throughout the globe And in each of these cities, policymakers, planners, and engineers are grappling with questions about how to regulate their use and parking In the absence of good data about how and where scooters are parked, many decision-makers may have no other choice but to rely on anecdotes, news accounts, and observations Here, parking behavior across several cities is examined, inspired by work done by other academic researchers including one by professor Kevin Fang and colleagues at San Jose State who conducted systematic observations in downtown San Jose CA, walking around city streets and observing how shared scooters were parked They found that only 2 percent of the 530 scooters they observed impeded pedestrian access