Parking as a Challenge for Urban Mobility: Introduction

This part of the book collects smart city approaches to support parking, mostly focusing on the parking pressure in inner-urban areas. The presented recipes for parking information and management rely on a smart – sensor-infused, connected, digitally enhanced – urban parking infrastructure that incorporates and utilizes the smart geospatial technologies presented in the first part. It also complements the approaches presented at the end of the first part, which focused on avoiding and shifting private motorized trips in cities, and thus alleviated parking pressure. The approaches presented also weigh also their options when confronted with traffic on roads with less infrastructure and less discipline.101103