The City of Toronto's ActiveTO Midtown Complete Street Pilot used CurbIQ to understand the existing curbside regulations along midtown corridors. This was a key first milestone for the project.
At CurbIQ, we are focused on using data standards that are most beneficial to our end users. We track what is being asked for, what new standards are emerging, and involve ourselves in the formulation of these standards where possible.
In 2016, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) launched Code the Curb, an initiative to create a digital inventory of the county’s curb regulations. This would require surveying the curb regulations on the ground.
Parking search and parking payment are two different processes and usually not connected. CurbIQ has integrated with HotSpot as a single tool to inform drivers where parking is allowed and available, and to easily pay for their selected parking session.
Regardless of whether a city has too little or too much data, there is always an option to produce a digital curb inventory to improve curbside management and urban development.
A digital-first approach to parking with CurbIQ and HotSpot minimizes risk with benefits of an environmentally sustainable, adaptable, and economical parking program.
Campuses are a great candidate for utilizing CurbIQ. From campus planners and visitors, to academic research, CurbIQ can help your campus become more innovative.
We are exhibiting at the 2023 International Parking and Mobility Conference. Come by our booth #924 to find out more about our free pilot offer and chat about our digital curb management solution.
Find out moreIn 2021, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) embarked on a region-wide curb space management study. The more specific and short-term goals include determining a blueprint to implement the best practices and on-street pilot projects.
Flexible curb management refers to ways that cities can optimize curb space that is in high demand in desirable areas. The flexibility allows cities to allocate the most suitable curb use to a specific location at a specific time.
CurbIQ has developed a public-facing curbside visualization tool to help you plan ahead and find parking faster during peak-demand season.
Unmanaged on-street parking can undermine off-street parking solutions. A curb management solution can address these problems by creating, managing, and sharing parking regulations in a visual and easy-to-navigate way.
A future proof curb is designed and managed with the built-in capacity to quickly adapt to change. This can be supported by digitizing the curbside inventory.
The City of Toronto's ActiveTO Midtown Complete Street Pilot used CurbIQ to understand the existing curbside regulations along midtown corridors. This was a key first milestone for the project.
The ability to foresee how the curbside would look in different scenarios helps to answer the what-if questions and leads to data-driven decisions.
At CurbIQ, we are focused on using data standards that are most beneficial to our end users. We track what is being asked for, what new standards are emerging, and involve ourselves in the formulation of these standards where possible.
Availability of as-built curbside GIS data is often scarce. Fortunately, there are open source GIS data and tools available. The CurbIQ team uses two main open source initiatives to create curbside inventories.
In 2016, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) launched Code the Curb, an initiative to create a digital inventory of the county’s curb regulations. This would require surveying the curb regulations on the ground.
The power of curbside data is enormous. By analyzing this data cities can understand the potential of the curbside to generate revenue, allocate space more efficiently, and communicate better with the public.
Every third Friday of September, people across the world temporarily repurpose selected street parking spaces and convert them to small parks as part of PARK(ing) Day.
Cities are looking at a variety of ways to collect information about their curbs without realizing they may already have the data they need.
Google and TriMet created the first-ever open-source transit dataset in 2005. Since then, hundreds of transit agencies worldwide have released open-source GTFS feeds.
The restaurant industry has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those remaining in business have had to adapt their model and find creative ways to operate.
We’ve previously shown how quick and easy it can be for a city to get started by digitizing their existing curbside regulations. But once you’ve done that, what’s next?
Despite the increasing demand for curb space, how cities regulate and communicate curbside information is outdated, inefficient, and confusing.
Nearly a year ago, surges in COVID-19 cases prompted mass shutdowns worldwide and set the scene for what would become our new shared reality.
Curb Manager was designed to help municipal staff efficiently update, create, review, and publish curbside regulations on a user-friendly platform. Now it can also be used as a pandemic response tool.
Learn more about curb space management and how to establish a comprehensive framework to achieve your city's urban planning goals.
CurbIQ partnered with Urban Movement Labs to demonstrate a quick and scalable method for creating a curb inventory in North American cities. In the summer of 2021, a pilot study was conducted in Los Angeles to evaluate the effectiveness of new mapping technology called augmented mobile mapping.
CurbIQ digitized over 350 miles of curbside in Columbus, OH, using existing datasets, to help with a broader solution to effectively choose, manage, and analyze loading zones as part of their Dynamic Curb Lane Management System.
The nearly 200-city SCAG region developed a comprehensive and multimodal review of complex curbside locations. CurbIQ helped collect the curbside inventory, digitize it, and analyze supply and demand changes and tradeoffs at 12 sites in 4 cities: Anaheim, Santa Ana, Riverside, Santa Monica.
CurbIQ partnered with Urban Movement Labs in Los Angeles to examine curb data inventory collection techniques such as manual data collection by foot, and automated data collection using a vehicle-mounted camera.
The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority completed a study improve their understanding of curbside allocation in Ann Arbor, which involved CurbIQ’s Curb-Level Surveying processes to survey over 60 miles of curbside inventory.
Use CurbIQ to analyze the impact of removal or reallocation of different curbside uses along a given route. This allows for quicker roll out and implementation of cycle routes, based on optimal design scenarios.
Provide location data to delivery and rideshare drivers to find nearest, convenient locations for short stays: saving time, avoiding infractions, and preventing blockages of bike lanes or sidewalks.
Provide an interactive map embedded on event websites so attendees can locate nearby mobility options, find parking, and identify event specific locations
Direct drivers to available and regulated parking spaces, while reducing driver stress, overall parking infractions, congestion, and emissions.
Parking search and parking payment are two different processes and usually not connected. CurbIQ has integrated with HotSpot as a single tool to inform drivers where parking is allowed and available, and to easily pay for their selected parking session – all in one place.
The curbside management experts at Arcadis IBI Group created CurbIQ to help cities gather and understand information about the curb. Quickly access curbside information and insights, all in a single platform. CurbIQ shows you when and where curbside activities can occur, allows you to update these regulations quickly, and then analyze these activities and demands in a dashboard view.
By digitizing curbside regulations, CurbIQ helps cities better understand how their curbs are working today and gives them modern tools to improve operations in the future. Curb Viewer is a map-based visualization tool that displays the regulations that apply along any curb segment. This allows municipalities and other users to easily navigate and understand the existing curbside regulations.
Peter Richards, Product Director at CurbIQ discusses Toronto's CaféTO program with Arcadis IBI Group's Global Director, Placemaking and International, Trevor McIntyre.
Planning a public event in your city? You may need to take a look at your curbside regulations and make some temporary changes. Using Curb Manager, CurbIQ’s simplified GIS platform, these short-term regulation changes can be done quickly and efficiently.
Finding the best use of the curbside has never been easier with Curb Analyzer. CurbIQ’s analysis tool helps municipalities quantify how their curbs are being used, so that city planners can better utilize their limited curb space.
Adding and updating curb regulations has never been easier with Curb Manager. CurbIQ’s simplified GIS platform helps municipalities manage their curbside efficiently by adding, removing, or modifying curbside regulations permanently or temporarily.
Watch the replay of the webinar to find out more about the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) curbside management strategy.
Watch the replay of the Digital Parking Practices webinar to find out more about the benefits of digital parking and curb management.
