Historical Commuter Carparks in New South Wales with Space Counts

Transport for NSW provides a historical dataset on commuter car parking facilities near public transport hubs in New South Wales. It captures the location of current and proposed car parks, showing counts of standard, accessible, and motorcycle spaces, as well as changes from 2017-2020 and planned future spaces. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-17 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Map parking facility locations based on the described geospatial data.
• Analyze changes in parking capacity over time based on the 2017-2020 change data.
• Assess accessibility provision based on the count of designated accessible spaces.
• Plan future transport infrastructure based on the data for planned or future spaces.

Strengths

• Includes counts for three distinct space types: standard, accessible, and motorcycle.
• Captures historical changes from 2017-2020 and planned future spaces.
• Licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Transport for NSW, combining Sydney Trains and Council data.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from operational and planning records of transport authorities.

Time Range

Historical, with data on changes from 2017-2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 21:26:50.699014; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.