Nowadays, many cities face severe problems accommodating growing urban freight transit and its related parking demand due to e-commerce effect while striving to improve citizens’ quality of life by reducing air pollutants emissions and environmental noise:
PARKUNLOAD® is a globally innovative IoT (Internet of Things) platform to efficiently regulate and control loading zones in urban areas, by installing smart road signs and by using a mandatory mobile app for commercial drivers.
With Parkunload’s system the city can flexibly and digitally manage vehicles’ loading permit and maximum loading time depending on several criteria, such as: vehicle emissions, type and tonnage, as well as driver’s profile (commercial, private, resident, …), accurate location, time of the day and during pollution episodes.
As a scalable and real-time platform, Parkunload is an excellent source of big data to monitor loading patterns and occupancy levels to optimize parking spaces and urban freight traffic.