Imagine my surprise when I found that Islington Council (London ) had 148 CEOs! Municipal government maybe bureaucratic but that was going way too far. Oops- the TLA stands for "Civil Enforcement Officer", not Chief Exec, more familiarly knows as a traffic warden to motorists.
Go back to the 1930's and black & while photos of an English town high street with a only a few cars parked nonchalantly in the wide open spaces of the road. Cut to 2016 with stressed motorists desperately seeking a free parking bay or to escape the pending penalty from an advancing CEO. .
The linked article below shows clearly the benefits of data and analytics to plan optimal parking solutions and the need for a mix of data scientists and parking manager professionals to make data driven decisions. At stake is the balance between two often contradictory objectives:-
- Freedom for individuals to enjoy the facilities of specific areas of cities, towns, villages and tourist sites
- Optimal traffic flow through said areas.
Reading through the article below shows the many variables that come into play. I never knew the importance of having at least 9 uninterrupted parking bays and the options this gives planners.
When I lived in a Victorian House with roadside parking it was obvious when the two + two= three law came into play.
My very first analytics solutions answered the needs of parking services in Islington. Until a blockchain enabled parking nirvana of smart & autonomous vehicles, parking bays and highways the modelling and planning revealed below is paramount to an optimal solution
