Articles by Steve Raney

About Steve Raney

Steve Raney heads Palo Alto-based Cities21, a smart mobility consultancy. Steve’s project history includes: Google self-driving cars, Ultra personal rapid transit (self-driving electric vehicles), smartphone instant ridesharing, smart parking, the US EPA’s "Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages" study, BART’s Group Rapid Transit Study, and conceiving Bay Area MTC’s $33M Climate Innovations Grant Program. He is the author of 18 transportation papers. Steve holds three masters: business, software, and transportation from Columbia, RPI, and Berkeley.

Sprinting Past the NIMBY-Climate Impasse

Sprinting Past the NIMBY-Climate Impasse

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Smart Cities | 1 Comment

Elite portions of the Bay Area (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Pleasanton, and Marin County) adopt many leading-edge green policies but stumble when it comes to accommodating regional population growth. These areas fear the impacts of growth within their own boundaries and...
End Free Workplace Parking?

End Free Workplace Parking?

by | Mar 4, 2013 | Smart Cities | 0 Comments

A Tantalizing Opportunity As we all should know from Donald Shoup’s landmark 733-page tome, The High Cost of Free Parking, cities with free parking do not qualify as smarter cities, as there is no free lunch and no such thing as a truly free parking space. Of the 102...
7 Standout Trends in Future Urban Mobility

7 Standout Trends in Future Urban Mobility

by | Oct 9, 2012 | Smart Cities | 6 Comments

I really enjoy Meeting of the Minds’ unique combination of technology and regional planning. Two of the mobility conference sessions covered the “Urban Mobility Revolution” and carsharing (ZipCar, City CarShare, and peer-to-peer Buzzcar). While the future is anyone’s...