Arlington County’s Performance Parking Pilot produces 24/7 real-time parking occupancy data from close to 4,500 metered parking spaces in our commercial corridors. Price data is also available--and all of these data are accessible through the project's API.
In fall 2024, we asked: How would you use data to make the parking experience better at metered parking spaces? While the Performance Parking Pilot project has several data tools available that prove how visualization and data can improve the parking experience (ParkMobile's “Availability” layer; eXactnav app; CurbIQ website), the project team wanted to know what else data scientists and enthusiasts could do with data to make parking better for drivers and other road users in Arlington--and how else this data could be used or displayed to achieve the pilot project's goals.
The County partnered with Northeastern University in Arlington to host a data tool showcase on Nov. 6, 2024, where participants used their skills and creativity to show what could be done with an open data feed like the project API to a relevant peer and professional audience. In addition to receiving constructive feedback on their work, participants and attendees had the opportunity to network and discuss their data tools and how these could make the user experience better for people parking and/or for other road users where parking is located.
We would like to thank the participants who presented their tools and analysis at this event:
- Cynthia Ukawu - Park & Stride
- Kevin Perez - Leveraging Parking Data to Enable Better Trip Planning
- Tobin McGilligan - Recommendation Map
- Kelsey Szafranski - Smart Park Navigator
- Trey Roark and Sophia Rutman - A Weekend at Arlington (Effects of Events)
- Jack Vandemeulebroecke - Parking Occupancy Probability
- Matthew Shaw - Management Consulting as Applied to Parking
- Elizabeth Qiu - Leveraging Data to Shape Urban Parking Trends
Below is a short video recap of the event and how it contributes to the broader Performance Parking Pilot project: