Historical Facts

Historical Facts

City Planning

• Do you know that Carlos Moreno invented the "15-minute city" concept?

• Do you know that Victor Gruen invented the idea of "Mall"? ➡ Click here to read more

Parking

• Do you know that the first parking meter, invented by Carl C. Magee, was installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935?

• Do you know that today's cars spend approximately 95% of their time parked?

• Do you know that Mark Lawrence and Jeremy Smith founded SpotHero (a digital parking marketplace) in 2011 in Chicago? It started as a place for people to rent out their parking spaces, and it later partnered with parking companies and garages ➡ Click here to read more

Traffic Engineering

• Do you know that William Phelps Enco wrote down the world's first traffic code for New York City on February 8, 1909?

• Do you Know the formula to calculate the timing of the steady yellow traffic light was first developed and presented in 1959 in the paper "The Problem Of The Amber Signal Light In Traffic Flow" by Denos Gazis, Robert Herman and Alexei Maradudin from General Motors Corporation, Research Laboratories in Warren, Michigan.