A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities scores 38 shopping-centre car parks on a five-level Pram-Bay Maturity Model and counts 4,706 pram-carrying arrivals across 152 centre-mornings. Pram-bay use averages 45.6% at Levels 1 to 3 and 29.6% at Levels 4 and 5, because every top-level centre keeps its bays behind a barrier, and the University has adopted the model for its own car parks, chaining each pram bay between scoring visits and releasing it only on a written application lodged the day before.
| Authors | Lindiwe Achterberg , Anneke Tolan , Anouk Mensah |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Anticipatory Capability Fund: Setting a Retirement Date for a Suburb's Temporary Detour Signs at Installation ( $317,564) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.f4w6qe |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 2 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_f4w6qe,
author = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Anneke Tolan and Anouk Mensah},
title = {Does a Higher Pram-Bay Maturity Level Put More Prams in the Bays?},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.f4w6qe},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-pram-bay-maturity-f4w6qe/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}