On-Street Car Parking Sensor Events For Melbourne CBD In 2014

Over 51.5 million parking event records were collected by in-ground sensors across Melbourne's central business district in 2014. The City of Melbourne Open Data platform provides this dataset, which logs vehicle arrival and departure times, parking restrictions, and overstay status for each bay.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking duration patterns and overstay frequency using recorded arrival/departure times and restriction data.
• Model parking bay occupancy and turnover rates from sensor-detected arrival and departure events.
• Investigate data anomalies like negative duration values in the 'seconds' field or 'OLD' tags in the 'Sign' field for quality assessment.

Strengths

• Contains 51.5 million rows of detailed parking event observations.
• Covers a full calendar year (2014) of continuous sensor data.
• Includes specific fields for arrival time, departure time, restriction (Sign), and overstay status.

Limitations

• Known data issues include 1,126,441 records with 'OLD' tags in the restriction field and records with negative duration values.
• 3,377 records where events span into 2015 were excluded from the 2014 dataset.
• Some arrival and departure times were not recorded and were imputed from midnight.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2014 calendar year

Freshness

Dataset reflects 2014 events; metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Melbourne Central Business District, Australia