Melbourne CBD On-Street Parking Sensor Events 2015

2015 calendar year data from in-ground parking bay sensors installed across Melbourne's Central Business District. The dataset contains 37.5 million records of vehicle arrival and departure events, including parking restriction and overstay information.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking duration patterns using arrival and departure timestamps to model bay occupancy.
• Identify overstay frequency relative to the recorded parking restriction (Sign field) for enforcement planning.
• Investigate sensor data anomalies, such as negative values in the seconds field or records marked 'OLD' in the Sign field.

Strengths

• 37.5 million rows provide a large-scale temporal record of parking events.
• Data includes specific event details: arrival/departure times, parking restriction (Sign), and overstay status.
• Covers a full calendar year (2015) for longitudinal analysis of parking behavior.

Limitations

• Known data issues include 453,178 records with 'OLD' appended to the Sign field, indicating changed or outdated restrictions.
• Some records contain negative values in the seconds field due to sensor timestamp errors.
• 4,138 records where parking events span into 2016 are excluded from this file.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2015 calendar year

Freshness

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Geography

Melbourne Central Business District (CBD), Australia