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PARK IT HERE!Real-Time Parking Information in Uptown Charlotte

PARK IT HERE! Real-Time Parking Information in Uptown CharlottePresenters: Cole Dagerhardt Kelly Nicholas


Importance of Traveler Information

• Situational awareness• Travelers able to make time and destination

choices • Modern travelers expect real-time information• Online applications especially popular with

younger generation


Disseminating Information

• Flashing Beacons• Highway Advisory

Radio• Dynamic Message

Signs• Internet• Mobile Devices• In-vehicle Navigation

Systems

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Where does real-time parking make sense?• Where parking is often limited– Airports– Park-and-Ride Stations– Central Business Districts– Rest Areas

• Where goal is to improve the utilization of a parking facility

• Where an agency plans to use the data for future analysis and planning


The Drive for Charlotte’s Parking Guidance System (PGS)• Stakeholder input relative to parking

challenges in 2006 showed:– Limited information for “visitors”– Inadequate signage for parking– No common theme or branding– Parking supply, ownership, and management was

private and fragmented


The Drive for Charlotte’s PGS

• To address stakeholder concerns• To address business owner’s concerns about

perceived lack of parking– The ease of finding parking had not been addressed– There is ample parking supply

• To address City staff concerns: Reduce VMT, improve air quality, reduce congestion; “park once”


Public-Private Partnership

• Center City Transportation Plan recommended creation of a “Parking Collaborative”– Charlotte Center City Partners– Parking Facility Owners– Charlotte Department of Transportation

• Parking perceived as unified and coordinated ‘public’ system

• MOU for terms of agreement with parking facility owners


Defining the Strategy

• Quadrants and Parking Loops

• Comprehensive Wayfinding Signage


• Full Matrix signs at Uptown entrances (Gateway signs)

• Space availability signs at garage entrances

• Static guide signs reinforce dynamic signs

Planning System Sign Classifications


Defining the Strategy• Comprehensive approach – Vehicular Signs on Freeways and Ramps• More sign real estate for attractions• Clean up signage



• Comprehensive approach –Gateway Signs• Full Matrix DMS on

major routes into Uptown



• Comprehensive approach –Vehicular On-street

Directional Signs• Continue directions from

freeway signage to the destination



• Comprehensive approach – Parking Guidance Signs• Static directional sign• Dynamic Real-Time signs

at garage entrances



• Comprehensive approach – Pedestrian Signs –Vehicular Egress

Signage


System and Infrastructure Design

• Communications – Fiber, VDSL, Wireless– Leverage existing CDOT

Network Assets

• Power• Hardware Design– Full Matrix DMS– Space Availability DMS– Communications Devices


Software Development

• Parking Space Availability– Integration with in-place PRCS

• Work with vendors for common format

– Custom User Interface• Garage Operator access• City Administrator access

• Full Matrix Message Signs– NTCIP Compliant– Integrated with ATMS Software


Software Implementation


Software Development


System Integration

• Dynamic sign configuration• Network hardware

configuration/troubleshooting• Cabling troubleshooting• System Testing– Field to cabinet– Field to central


Ensuring System Validity

• Imperative to provide valid data• Need for system monitoring– Garage operators– City system administrator

• Additional software updates to improve ability to monitor system


Future Expansion

• Plans for future expansion– Criteria for inclusion–Method of expansion

• Currently working to add 3 space availability displays for 2 additional garages

• Possible future integration with CATS park and ride lots


What’s next for real-time parking?

• Increase of in-vehicle tracking devices (or handheld devices)

• Dynamic pricing• Safety concerns are increasing with mobile

devices


Questions?

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