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The number of residential on-street permits is similar to the number of excess apartment spaces – there is potential to investigate shared and unbundled systems. Also potential to be clearer about the subsidy and role of residential parking permits. New technologies Electronic parking information, enforcement and payment systems used by governments and parking operators. Reduces cruising time and increases efficiency and transparency. Emerging car parking sharing applications: peer to peer applications to allow renting of excess space. Local examples include Parkhound, Parkey, Kerb, Spacer. A trend in motorising Chinese cities: “airparking”, “Parking Panda”. Car park sharing uses existing space more efficiently. It may not be consistent with reducing commuter traffic. Car sharing operates in over 1,000 cities worldwide. Parking can be allocated, or free-floating / dockless. An alternative or complement to car ownership, car sharing reduces car use by reducing sunk costs to users. These are for-profit operations but are heavily reliant on local parking policies. Parking policies for car have been a response to rapid changes. Researchers argue they should be more consistent. Some cities integrate pricing / ticketing of public transport with car and bike share schemes. Future uncertainty: deliveries, ride sharing, parking, autonomous vehicles, mobility as a service, road user pricing. The City of Melbourne uses parking sensor and guidance systems in several areas. This underscores its open data provision. Coverage is not comprehensive. City of Melbourne supports car sharing through on-street spaces, and encourages a of spaces to be As with residential permits and on-street parking, the fee and its basis not transparent. The way car parking space is allocated and priced has a significant role in shaping the form in which new transport technologies progress. It is difficult to predict future disruptions but the City has an opportunity to facilitate consistent and fair systems of access and pricing for parking. This applies to new of car use – car sharing, ride sharing, autonomous vehicles, ‘last mile’ deliveries – as much as to the private vehicles around which conventional parking policies were designed. A key challenge is balancing investment in new City infrastructure, versus better coordination with other operators of parking and transport systems.