During major events and on a daily basis in the city, the problem of finding a parking space quickly arises. To reduce traffic jams that occur when looking for a parking space, it would be necessary to find a solution for equiping the parking lots in the city with appropriate sensoring/monitoring system to monitor occupancy of parking spaces at the city level. Searching for free parking spaces in city generates a large proportion of traffic flows (congestion), which could be avoided by establishing comprehensive monitoring or digital control over the occupancy of parking spaces in the city. The so-called white zones (paid parking spaces) are currently controlled physically by parking supervisors and city wardens. The city has not yet had sufficient digital maturity to implement solutions such as the introduction of smart parking lots with real time monitoring. The aforementioned challenge is defined in the Smart city strategy of Maribor 2030, which was created in 2022
With the development and implementation of appropriate solution that would enable the digitalization of the sensoring/monitoring control of the cities parking spaces, controls could be carried out much more easily and time efficiently and at the same time offering the possibility to citizens for searching of free parking spaces (also for parking spaces for disabled).
The implemented communication network solution should provide needed information on the situation on parking lots in real time.
