Melbourne CBD On-Street Parking Sensor Records for 2012

52.5 million rows of sensor data capture vehicle arrivals and departures across most central business district parking bays. The City of Melbourne dataset includes parking restriction details and overstay flags for the 2012 calendar year.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking duration patterns using the 'seconds' field to model demand and turnover rates.
• Detect overstay violations by flagging records where a vehicle exceeded the recorded 'Sign' restriction.
• Investigate sensor anomalies by identifying records with negative values in the 'seconds' duration field.
• Model temporal parking availability by correlating arrival and departure times with bay-specific restrictions.

Strengths

• 52.5 million rows provide high-resolution temporal coverage of parking events.
• Data includes specific fields for restriction ('Sign'), duration ('seconds'), and overstay status.
• Covers most parking bays in Melbourne's CBD, offering broad spatial coverage for the area.

Limitations

• 1,139,275 records contain outdated 'OLD' tags in the 'Sign' field, indicating changed restrictions.
• Negative values in the 'seconds' field reflect sensor errors where arrival time was logged after departure.
• Some arrival and departure times are imputed from midnight, introducing potential inaccuracies.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Collected from in-ground parking bay sensors recording vehicle arrivals and departures.

Time Range

2012 calendar year

Freshness

Data is historical, covering the 2012 calendar year, though metadata was last updated in 2026.

Geography

Melbourne Central Business District (CBD), Australia