Melbourne CBD On-Street Parking Sensor Events 2018

City of Melbourne Open Data provides 30.2 million records of in-ground parking sensor events from the central business district in 2018. The data captures vehicle arrival and departure times, parking restriction details, and overstay status for most CBD parking bays.

Use Cases

• Model parking bay vacancy time using vehicle arrival and departure timestamps.
• Analyze overstay patterns against recorded parking restriction rules.
• Forecast parking demand by aggregating vehicle presence events across sensor locations.

Strengths

• 30.2 million rows of event-level sensor data.
• Covers most parking bays in Melbourne's central business district.
• Includes specific fields for parking restriction and overstay status.

Limitations

• Column names and structure are unknown, requiring schema discovery.
• Data is limited to a single year (2018), which may not reflect current conditions.
• Geographic coverage is confined to the Melbourne CBD.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Dataset metadata was updated in March 2026, but the underlying data is from 2018.

Geography

Melbourne Central Business District (CBD), Australia