We share our streets with rideshare drivers, our curbs with delivery trucks, and our driveways with bikes and scooters. But there’s something that separates these spaces from garages, which is why we have yet to see diversity in the occupants of our garages and lots.
If we want to break down the barrier to our garages, we’ll have to lift what stands between them: the gate.
Access control is a critical part of our transition towards multi-use hubs of mobility. Introducing smart parking solutions is a critical step in pursuing mobility hub concepts. When garages can accept scooters or electric vehicles the same way they accept cars, there will be nothing left to impede access for alternative mobility.
So how can garages entice those modes to utilize garages the same way cars do? They’ll have to achieve variety: parking plus services like EV charging, scooter docking, logistics lockers, and fleet management. When alternative modes of mobility have access to a wealth of value within garages, with no barriers to keep them out, a new age of profitability and sustainability will begin for parking assets, their owners, and their operators.