Melbourne CBD Parking Sensor Records for 2011

2011 calendar year data contains 21.8 million records of parking events from in-ground sensors installed in most CBD parking bays by the City of Melbourne. Each record includes vehicle arrival and departure times, parking restriction details, and overstay status.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking duration patterns using arrival and departure times to identify peak occupancy periods.
• Detect overstay violations by comparing vehicle departure times against recorded parking restrictions.
• Investigate sensor reliability by flagging records with negative duration values in the seconds field.
• Study parking policy changes by examining records where the Sign field contains the 'OLD' text annotation.

Strengths

• 21.8 million rows provide a detailed temporal record of parking activity.
• Data includes specific event-level details like arrival/departure times and restriction overstay status.
• Coverage spans the entire 2011 calendar year for longitudinal analysis.

Limitations

• Known data issues include 488,167 records with 'OLD' annotations in the Sign field indicating outdated or changed restrictions.
• Some records contain negative values in the seconds duration field due to sensor timing errors.
• Arrival and departure times are calculated from midnight for records where the exact time was not captured.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Recorded by in-ground parking bay sensors installed in most CBD parking bays.

Time Range

2011 calendar year

Freshness

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Geography

Melbourne CBD, Australia