Modern parking policy is based on informed/data driven measures tackling more significant influences at once:

• parking coefficients, i.e. how a city is being developed (advanced cities have a parking coeffcient 1.0 vehicle per appartment or lower) 
• capacity vs occupancy, i.e. offer vs demand, how often the vehicles travel, potential for car sharing services 
• residential parking fee modelling - flexible charging based on visitor parking demand during the day 

Cities generally lack data on appropriate parking coefficients, parking capacity and occupancy, resident vs. transit traffic volumes, or data to evaluate the sustainable mobility measures in place. 

Digitalisation in the form of zonal monitoring

Digitalisation in the form of zonal monitoring will allow the introduction of flexible parking charging according to demand, to determine the real modal split of the number of trips, to evaluate existing parking capacities, traffic load or visitor occupancy rates, etc. The digital twin of parking is thus a standard tool for addressing parking policy, also with regard to Green Deal requirements and the promotion of sustainable mobility. 

About the system 

The system provides information and analysis of parking demand and parking space utilisation "online". The system can be extended with navigation information signs. The system produces detailed data on traffic volumes or occupancy of parking spaces every 5 minutes, allowing comparisons among parking places or e.g. times and occupancy rates. This is used to be able to set thresholds and run traffic control scenarios or send event notifications to the appropriate staff via SMS or email, produce long-term reports, identify trends or assess the impact of traffic organisation measures.