TOOL

Collecting data about parking occupancy

Short description

Often, as a counter argument to street transformation, it is claimed that there are to little parking possibilities. But is that true? Data in Ljubljana showed that the city has rather a problem with how parking space is distributed. The urban planning office "prostoroz" suggested the following steps to collect data about parking space distribution.

1. define the area of observation (street / block / neighbourhood)
2. prepare the site plan of all the parking spots you will observe / have access to, regardless of ownership
3. set a hypothesis (e.g. parking is occupied by employees, not generating income for local shops)
4. create an observation plan: check occupancy one Wednesday and Saturday; and granular occupancy of observed parking lots every 2 hours, starting from 5 AM to 12:00 PM
5. graphically present data and interpret results

Unlock-hypothesis

Showing data about the actual parking place distribution can question beliefs about the necessity of parking places in a certain area.

Lock-in Layers

institutional

Lock-in Cluster

Personal and Social Beliefs

Tool maturity Level

TML3

Link for further information about the tool

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Link to tool materials

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Level of effort for application

medium

Skill level needed for application

medium

Suitable spatial context

neighbourhood

Spatial limitation

no

Target group

local politicians, city administration, city politicians, NGOs / local interest groups

Visualisation

Tool type

Evidence

Languages

english