Watch this webinar to learn how cities use parking data and occupancy insights to improve curb management, boost enforcement, and ensure a parking spot is available on every block.
With the publication of Donald Shoup’s seminal work, The High Cost of Free Parking, Cities agencies have spent significant time and resources to understand on-street parking occupancy on a broad scale. 15 years ago, SFpark received $20M in federal funding to install sensors throughout San Francisco’s paid meter zones to inform pricing to achieve an 85% occupancy rate.
Other agencies and companies have tried to use parking payments at meters as a way to derive occupancy. More recently, cities have been using camera-based sensors to understand realtime occupancy. As of May 2025, INRIX’s Curb Analytics will be the first tool to derive block-face level occupancy on a citywide scale using parking demand derived from floating vehicle data.
Join this dynamic panel of city leaders and parking technology experts as they discuss how parking occupancy insights are helping agencies modernize enforcement strategies, streamline curb studies, and craft data-driven policy.
Panelists will share lessons learned from the field, explore the critical role of occupancy data for enforcement, and reveal how cloud-based analytics platforms are accelerating the shift to more efficient and responsive systems that help manage parking such that there is likely to be a space available on every block.
Presenters:
- Nate Berry, Director of City Partnerships, INRIX
- Michael Schwartz, General Manager, City Software, INRIX
- Khristian Gutierrez, Co-Founder/CEO, Passport
- Akshay Malik, Smart Cities Director, City of Philadelphia
What You’ll Learn:
- Why parking occupancy information is so important for modern curb management
- How Smart Grant cities are scaling citywide parking and digital right of way management
- The impact of occupancy-based enforcement tools
- Exploring the role of transaction, camera-based realtime sensor and sensor-less demand-based occupancy models
- Lessons from the field: pitfalls, surprises, and successes