Fife Public Car Parks Inventory with 12,000 Spaces

Fife Council owns and maintains 174 public car parks, 30 of which are fee-charging. The inventory provides a total of 12,000 parking spaces and is continuously updated to ensure short-stay and Park and Ride access to town centers. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of paid versus free parking based on the count of 30 fee-charging car parks.
• Model town center accessibility based on the described provision of short-stay and Park and Ride spaces.
• Plan parking capacity and maintenance schedules based on the inventory of 174 council-owned car parks.

Strengths

• Contains specific counts for total car parks (174) and fee-charging ones (30).
• Provides a concrete total of 12,000 parking spaces.
• Description states the inventory is continuously updated.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Fife Council, provided by the Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Administrative inventory maintained by the local council.

Time Range

Present (continuously updated), but specific date range is unknown.

Freshness

Description states 'continuously updated', but specific last update date is unknown.

Geography

Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.