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Use Case
Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure
Valencia had a parking meter management system in place for 10 years. These parking meters have very basic functionalities, which do not meet the needs of the city. It consists of about 370 parking meters installed in the street with capacity for only one payment method (coins) and without the possibility of updating it or implementing new functionality such as paying by card or mobile application.
Via Valencia's Smart City project, this action converts a total of 1,060 parking spaces into intelligent ones. These new spaces for vehicles allow their geolocation and thus know their availability in real time. It is managed by the Office Ciutat Intel-ligente of the city of Valencia.
The aim of this initiative is to monitor and supervise the occupation of parking spaces in real time. This pilot action can be expanded in the future both in number of locations and functionalities, i.e. a reservation system, route optimization which allows the driver to choose the route that pollutes less and/or reduces costs. It contributes benefits to both citizens and municipal services.
The benefits of this measure are as follows:
This tool allows a more efficient planning of parking distribution in the city.
The Impulso VLCi project, which is part of Red.es and is financed by FEDER and other funds, finances 96.5% of the smart parking lots in operation, according to an agreement signed with the Diputación de Valencia in 2021. In the towns, 31 limited spaces for reduced mobility and loading and unloading were highlighted due to the agreement. In addition, the participatory budgets DecidimVLC finances 7 loading and unloading spaces in the Ciutat Vella in Valencia.
A total of 1,096 technological spaces have been reserved in different areas of Valencia: 317 for loading and unloading, 92 for cabs, and 689 for spaces reserved for PRM (people with reduced mobility). To communicate the availability of each space, a sensor was installed to detect the presence of vehicles. This transmits the information to the VLCi platform, which is connected to the AppValència, the geoportal and València Al Minuto. In this way, parking availability can be consulted in real time through these tools, which improves the efficiency of the service.
This tool helps to advance in the protection of the rights of people with functional diversity and has highlighted that there are currently 2,810 parking spaces for users with reduced mobility, 45% more than in 2015, of which a third are sensorized, and that 7,833 parking cards are being issued for this reason.
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