Last Wednesday, on April 14th, our CEO Thomas Hohenacker & COO David Parker spoke Sofa Summits - Smart City Summit on:

"The Fastest Path to a 15-minute City. How Cologne Cut Parking Search by 45% to Minimise Congestion"

The talk, as part of the Sustainable Cities - Transportation and Mobility Track, was focused on one of the world’s most innovative and modern parking guidance systems for residents and visitors that was installed in the Cologne district of Nippes last year. The first results of the project have shown parking search time decrease by 45%.

We were joined by a long list of leading and innovative smart cities, such as the City of Rome, Hannover, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Zürich, Helsinki, Rotterdam, Göteborg, Dortmund, Winterthur, Lahti, Geneva, Dublin and Madrid, to name a few. 

During the event, several overall polls were released for all attendees to weigh in on - when asked what was the main goal for their smart city, 50% of the respondents answered with ‘sustainability’, 47.1% with ‘quality of life’ and 2.9% with ‘innovation’. 

We are happy to see major smart cities prioritizing sustainability and citizen quality of life — 2 facets we have seen improve quickly with the deployment of smart parking, like the case in Cologne.

We’d like to thank all attendees for joining and for their active participation, and for making the event successful. 

If you missed it, but would like to hear more about the installation in Cologne, please find the presentation deck or watch the live session recording below.

Read the slide deck that was used during the presentation:

Or watch the full recording:

Lower emissions and improve quality of life while growing revenue

19 November 2020

When:

10 - 11 AM (PCT) / 7 - 8 PM (CT)

Time: 

Representatives of utility companies and cities or anyone else who is interested in the topic

Expected audience: 

English

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How to join the event:

Streetlights have extraordinary strategic importance in the development of smart cities as they ‘overlook’ essential properties of a city: on-street or surface parking spaces, delivery and drop-off zones, e-charging stations, as well as no parking zones such as fire hydrants.

Meanwhile, parking search traffic causes up to 30% of all inner-city traffic. Smart parking solutions provide the data and guidance required to help cities reduce traffic and emissions and increase parking and shopping revenue while allowing drivers to enjoy a smooth, stress-free arrival experience.

Each streetlight has a staggering ability to manage $80K-$400K in annual revenue potential for a city. How? Cleverciti’s streetlight-mounted AI sensor can typically monitor 10-50 parking spaces, whereas each parking space has an annual revenue potential of about $8,000.

For utilities, generating valuable data via existing streetlight assets opens new opportunities to generate revenue while making cities more livable by reducing traffic and emissions. Higher parking turnover and increased compliance helps local retailers to attract shoppers and grow their businesses.

In addition, with the growth of delivery vehicles, managing the curb has become a crucial challenge: avoiding double parking and monitoring dwell times of delivery vehicles in dedicated loading zones improves traffic flow and safety.

This webinar will dive deep into crucial topics for the evolution of smart cities:

• How utilities can enter the data business by leveraging their streetlight assets

• How to effectively manage the curb to make the best use of this valuable real estate while improving safety and congestion

• How to make cities more livable by reducing traffic and emissions with smart parking

Join Cleverciti, the leading smart parking solution, and Itron, the world leader in smart city solutions, delivering critical infrastructure to help utilities and cities manage energy and water” to gain insights and examples of how cities and utilities can manage their on-street assets in a highly efficient way and turn data, generated directly at each streetlight into a valuable smart city revenue driver.

We look forward to seeing you there!