eParkly is a women-led project that will produce a platform for providing
1) information on real-time availability of parking spaces in the city centre from all parking facilities (including the navigation to them) and other parking-related key info on a public dashboard,
2) collecting city-wide parking statistics for urban development. If needed, the platform also provides
3) pre-booking and
4) dynamic demand based pricing options – hence the workname Marketplace. The solution will be provided as PAAS (Platform as a Service) which the parking providers can utilise and engage with their users.
The parking providers will be able to list all their parking lots in our marketplace and in return we will provide the real time availability of all the parking spaces, making the availability thus more transparent to the users. Furthermore, our platform offers a fully new kind of city-wide parking data ecosystem, enabling many kinds of new public service and business opportunities. To enable wide data collection and thus the parking data ecosystem, our research work will mainly focus on the local digital conditions, parking and enforcement arrangements, and parking stakeholder analyses in the participating cities. In chosen parking lots the project can provide sensors and cameras with suitable AI tools.
