Looking For A Parking Spot? Enter Streetline!

I am in San Francisco this weekend and I have a rental car.  Its one thing to pay $40 a night to use the hotel's vallet parking system.  Its another to go driving around the city and not find a single place to park.  I am dreading the search and rescue effort it is going to take to find a parking space in this city.  Fortunately for me, I have experience on my side and know where all the good parking spots are located.  But not everyone does.  Enter Streetline.  Streetline is a small technology company based here in the Bay Area that has partnered with the city to install "bumps" in 6,000 test parking slots across the city.  These bumps have embedded sensors in them and notify parking officials as to whether a parking stall is vacant or occupied.  The 6,000 bumps will form a wireless network across the city informing "parking-stalkers" of open spaces.  These notifications will eventually come to people on their phones and can notify them when spots open up.  According to Donald Shoup, professor of urban planning at UCLA, "It will have a cascade of positive effects on transportation and econony and environment."  Check out the NY Times article below.

++Can't Find a Parking Spot?  Check Smartphone [NY Times]

Comments

[Garrett]

I will try to get some pictures of these "bumps" set up around the city while I am here.

[Kevin D]

I also heard that at some point, they will hold a quickie auction for that space.

[Sarasota Wedding Photographer]

i wonder what it would go for

[Rock Vintage T Shirts]

Knowledge giving Article! I appreciate you. I completely agree with you. If we talk about current scenario then it is must be update. I enjoyed reading. I would like to visit more for more queries.

[Dubai Property]

Yes - express service with limited stops AND the full route with all the stops. Like the "Skokie Swift" in Chicago. If the tracks and plans are going to be laid then accomdations for both express and local service should be inlcuded.

[james]

parking sensors

james
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[sheds]

Now thats something which i call a genuine technology. I have heard a few months back about this kinda of technology for parking on the discovery channel.

[jamesstewart]

The hope here is that guided parking becomes part and parcel of a next generation of services for citizens,” Yusuf said. “That in seven to ten years, people will look at you funny when you say you used to have to drive around looking for a space.
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[Corn Flour Mill]

talk about current scenario then it is must be update. it i sa dog !

[Maui Vacation Rentals]

Wow, what will they think of next? I am all for anything that eases congestion and makes parking in cities easier.

[Texas Land Sales]

Its great. Now I know on how to park safely,