What’s the state of your curbside?
Visualize
View curbside regulations easily and efficiently to gain a better understanding of existing curbside uses
Manage
Make proposed, temporary, or permanent changes to curbside regulations quickly and easily
Analyze
Detect trends and assess the impacts of existing curb rules and usage on your transportation network
Improve
Boost the productivity of underutilized spaces, reduce cruising for parking, and improve the convenience of the curbside for all
Confusing curbside regulations
Cities across the world share a similar challenge: understanding how their curb space has been designated, what the exact regulations are, and when or where these regulations apply. This makes curbside management difficult. Signage is confusing and only provides information to drivers at the end of their journey, resulting in cruising for parking, rather than providing this information to drivers in advance and letting them plan ahead.
Increasing demand for a scarce resource
Rideshare apps, connected and automated vehicles, and other emerging trends in mobility are generating significant demands on the already limited curb space in cities. Add this to the existing growing needs of local residents, businesses, visitors, and couriers, and the result is an increase in demand at the curb that cannot be addressed by simply increasing supply.
Inefficient usage due to a lack of information
With information on curbside regulations only available once you arrive at the curb, drivers, rideshare users, and delivery vehicles compete for a handful of on-street spaces while just a block or two away curb space sits empty for most of the day.
The curbside is changing rapidly, but curbside management practices have not kept up
City planners need to respond quickly to evolving circumstances and mandates, especially in times of uncertainty, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current methods to communicate curbside use changes, which include on-street signage, guidance on a website, or even mail-outs, are outdated and often ineffective. Digital infrastructure is the key to the future of the curb.
Guide to Curb Management
Good curb management can reduce conflicts and collisions, minimize injuries between users, increase economic output, ease mobility hardships, and more—creating happier, healthier cities.
