What is your project concept or idea? What challenge or opportunity will it solve?
I am proposing to develop a data standard for real-time and static parking data. Currently, only off-street (e.g., garage, lot) parking information is available to drivers and parking managers. However, in most places people really want to know about on-street parking. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to look up parking policies (e.g., zones, time limits, meter prices, etc.). If it exists, it usually resides on outdated PDFs on clunky municipal websites.
To make the data standard accessible, an easy way to upload and convert data will be needed. They key will be to develop an easy-to-use web interface for cities and universities to provide their parking regulations. The interface would save the data into the data standard and provide ways to edit or download.
Who will benefit from your project? Describe the humans at the center of the problem - who are they?
How would they benefit? Can you tell their story?
The primary benefactors will be parking managers at Central Florida cities and universities. Because "you can't manage what you can't measure", it is currently very hard for them to make changes to parking policies to achieve their desired goals and objectives. Citizens of Orlando could also benefit by having easier access to all parking information (on-street and off-street).
Do you have photos of them? Or quotes?
I have contacts at City of Orlando's transportation department who would be happy to listen and perhaps help.
Issue area(s) relevant to your project idea:
Environment & Sustainability
Mobility/Transportation
Neighborhoods
What is the current state of your project idea?
I have an idea or concept of a solution, but have not yet prototyped or tested it
Tell us more about the current state of your project idea.
At this point it is just an idea. However, my company did a study on downtown Orlando parking a couple of years ago and it may be a good head start.
Do you have any links to news articles, text, mockups, code, or data?
The GTFS story (good read on a very successful partnership between a transport public agency and a software developer)
This is about the state-of-the-practice for parking. The idea would be to replicate this, but with data and not Adobe Illustrator.
Tell us about yourself.
What is your background? Why is this challenge important to you?
I am a civil engineer, focused on transportation issues. I work for a company called Kittelson & Associates, Inc., and just relocated to Orlando from our Oakland, California office.
Urban transport is exciting. It's really on everybody's mind, it's part of everyone's daily life, and it's still a long way from being "fixed". I think the software community is starting to be, and will become, a critical part of the solution. I think that parking is the next frontier in urban transport from a city or public agency perspective, especially with connected/autonomous vehicles and trucks and greater reliance on navigation.
Are you representing a group in submitting this project idea?
Short description of the idea (140 character tweet):
GTFS for parking
What is your project concept or idea? What challenge or opportunity will it solve?
I am proposing to develop a data standard for real-time and static parking data. Currently, only off-street (e.g., garage, lot) parking information is available to drivers and parking managers. However, in most places people really want to know about on-street parking. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to look up parking policies (e.g., zones, time limits, meter prices, etc.). If it exists, it usually resides on outdated PDFs on clunky municipal websites.
To make the data standard accessible, an easy way to upload and convert data will be needed. They key will be to develop an easy-to-use web interface for cities and universities to provide their parking regulations. The interface would save the data into the data standard and provide ways to edit or download.
Who will benefit from your project? Describe the humans at the center of the problem - who are they?
How would they benefit? Can you tell their story?
The primary benefactors will be parking managers at Central Florida cities and universities. Because "you can't manage what you can't measure", it is currently very hard for them to make changes to parking policies to achieve their desired goals and objectives. Citizens of Orlando could also benefit by having easier access to all parking information (on-street and off-street).
Do you have photos of them? Or quotes?
I have contacts at City of Orlando's transportation department who would be happy to listen and perhaps help.
Issue area(s) relevant to your project idea:
What is the current state of your project idea?
Tell us more about the current state of your project idea.
At this point it is just an idea. However, my company did a study on downtown Orlando parking a couple of years ago and it may be a good head start.
Do you have any links to news articles, text, mockups, code, or data?
Tell us about yourself.
What is your background? Why is this challenge important to you?
I am a civil engineer, focused on transportation issues. I work for a company called Kittelson & Associates, Inc., and just relocated to Orlando from our Oakland, California office.
Urban transport is exciting. It's really on everybody's mind, it's part of everyone's daily life, and it's still a long way from being "fixed". I think the software community is starting to be, and will become, a critical part of the solution. I think that parking is the next frontier in urban transport from a city or public agency perspective, especially with connected/autonomous vehicles and trucks and greater reliance on navigation.
Are you representing a group in submitting this project idea?
No