Cruising for Parking

Crusing for Parking

Shoup, Donald C.
Transport Policy 13, no. 6 (2006): 479–86
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2006.05.005

“When a resource is communally owned, the right of ‘‘first possession’’ means that anyone who captures the resource has the right to use it. Free curb parking is an example of communal ownership, because drivers occupy it on a first-come, first-served basis. If all the curb spaces are occupied, drivers must cruise to find a space vacated by a departing car. Cruising for parking probably began soon after the wheel was invented.”

— Donald C. Shoup