Melbourne CBD On-Street Parking Sensor Records for 2013

Melbourne CBD on-street parking sensor data contains 43.2 million records of vehicle arrivals and departures for the 2013 calendar year. The City of Melbourne collected this data using in-ground sensors installed in most central business district parking bays, recording parking durations and restriction compliance.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking duration patterns using arrival and departure timestamps to model demand and turnover rates.
• Identify overstay events by comparing recorded vehicle durations against the parking restriction for each bay.
• Investigate sensor data anomalies, such as negative duration values in the seconds field or records flagged with 'OLD' in the Sign restriction field.

Strengths

• Contains 43.2 million detailed parking event records.
• Covers a full calendar year (2013) of continuous sensor data.
• Includes specific fields for arrival, departure, duration, restriction, and overstay status.

Limitations

• Includes known data issues: 987,179 records have 'OLD' appended to the Sign field, indicating changed or obsolete restrictions.
• Contains records with negative values in the duration field due to sensor timestamp errors.
• Some arrival and departure times are not recorded and are calculated from midnight, introducing potential inaccuracies.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Collected via in-ground parking bay sensors installed in the CBD.

Time Range

2013 calendar year

Freshness

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Geography

Melbourne Central Business District, Australia