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Nickel and dimed (Winter Park, Florida edition)
This is what the back of a Winter Park, Fla. parking ticket looks like. Notice how you get only five calendar days to contest the citation, and in order to do so, you must show up in person at a police … Continue reading
The economics of parking
Are there too few parking spaces in your city or campus … or too many? Professors Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, and Samer Madanat try to calculate the social costs of parking in their six-page report “Parking Infrastructure and the Environment” published in 2011. … Continue reading
What is the optimal strategy for finding a parking space?
Presh Talwalkar, who has created one of the best blogs on mathematics and game theory on the web (Mind Your Decisions), recently wrote up this blog post on parking space strategy. It includes this interesting excerpt from the book Traffic: Why … Continue reading
prior probability 