- Organisation type
- Public administration at local level
- Use case area
- Transport
- Geographic scope
- Belgium
- Domain
- Environment
- Governance and implementation
Challenge:
Brussels faces significant challenges in managing public parking spaces efficiently within its urban environment, where space is limited, and demand is high. The city grapples with issues such as traffic congestion caused by drivers searching for parking, inefficient use of available spaces, and a need to direct drivers to off-street parking.
Approach:
To address these challenges, Brussels has implemented an approach that involves the collection and sharing of detailed data on public parking spaces across the city. This dataset provides detailed information about a parking facility, including its name, address, geolocation, operator, contact details, capacity (including special needs), number of floors and dimensions and is made accessible to the public as well as third-party developers through open data platforms. It can be viewed online by everybody, can be downloaded in a plethora of formats, e.g. json, GeoPackage, csv or shp for static analysis, but it can also be accessed in real time. This initiative enables the development of applications and services that assist drivers in finding parking more easily. Brussels.parking has used this data to create an interactive map of parking in Brussels. Based on the collected data, they have also created a report on why parking is always a challenge in Brussels despite seemingly enough parking spaces available.
Outcomes:
The analysis of Brussels’ parking data revealed that while certain parking spaces are consistently overused, others remain underutilised, indicating a mismatch between parking infrastructure and driver behaviour throughout the day. With an overall annual occupancy rate of 40%, the data highlights significant underused parking capacity. By making this data publicly available, the initiative enhances transparency and supports the development of digital tools that help drivers find parking more efficiently. This approach not only leads to reduced traffic congestion but also equips city planners with actionable insights to optimise parking spaces and improve urban mobility.
Data Sources:
The data used in this initiative is sourced from the City of Brussels’ public parking infrastructure and includes detailed information on parking locations, capacities, and availability. This data is published on the Mobility Brussels platform and the Brussels Open Data portal, where it is accessible to the public and developers for creating parking-related services and applications.
Additional Information:
- https://data.mobility.brussels/fr/info/parkingpublic/
- https://bruxellesdata.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/bruxelles_parkings_publics/information/?disjunctive.name_fr&disjunctive.commune_gemeente
- https://data.mobility.brussels/home/media/filer_public/46/ae/46ae9e28-2b79-490a-9ebc-e0c7919a0c71/gm_q7_stationnement_fr_v4.pdf
- https://urban-mobility-observatory.transport.ec.europa.eu/resources/case-studies/park4sump-objectives-and-key-messages-parking-management-cities_en
Point of Contact:
- infotrafic
mobilite-mobiliteit [dot] brussels (infotrafic[at]mobilite-mobiliteit[dot]brussels)