The biggest wins will be making freight in far flung places a lot cheaper. Lots of northern Ontario will become cheaper to live in, and that means less growth for big cities…
Arguably, freight in central cities is kind of a legacy issue of their historic role as central places. But moving freight yards is hard, because you need a big contiguous area, and those simply don't exist in even moderately central locations.
I just mean that if you want to live in northern ontario, most of your stuff comes by truck...and we are paying 29$/hour for the driver...in some places it's 6+ hours from the nearest major shipping hub...even more in some places...
I mean if we will make space for the taxis to not drive around...if they can enter parking lots, or use roadside parking then they won't continue driving around endlessly...we might even make taxi stands that they can queue in...
No, not in the traditional taxi sense. But they will circulate in high traffic areas in order to be proximate to where the next passenger pickup is likely to be.
It is being studied but I cannot remember names right now. My bias says watch transportation geography journals. There’s less hype and more research on parking/congestion/sprawl.
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Converting general parking to 'commercial loading zones' would be a good call.