On-street Parking Bay Sensors

What you can build

• Send a technician to a bay that is free

  Field Dispatch reads Unoccupied bays within a short distance of the job address at dispatch time and proposes the arrival point and bay in the work order.

  With Field Dispatch

• Warn when kerbside space is gone before a service window

  Service Window watches the bays around a customer site as the window approaches and proposes an earlier or later arrival when none has read Unoccupied for a while.

  With Service Window

• Time a shuttle pull-in

  Shuttle Timing checks the bays at a pick-up point before departure and proposes an alternate stop when every sensor there reads Present.

  With Shuttle Timing

• Direct overflow to the street

  Parking Overflow reads nearby bay status when a property's own parking is full and proposes a message that points visitors to zones with vacant bays.

  With Parking Overflow

Requirements

• No key. A portal account is optional and only changes quotas
• A point and radius or a bounding box inside the City of Melbourne, written as an ODSQL where clause on location
• A check on lastupdated, since the city says relay outages delay updates and asks users to watch that column
• A site or job location from another source to decide which bays matter

Authentication

None. The portal serves this dataset to anonymous callers; a portal account and API key, passed as Authorization: Apikey or the apikey parameter, extend the platform's call quota.

Limits

• The records endpoint returns at most 100 rows per call and offset plus limit must stay below 10000; use exports for the whole dataset
• Anonymous calls to the portal reported an X-RateLimit-Limit of 10000 per day in the response headers; the API answers 429 once the quota is spent
• Sensors are not operational on public holidays and show a bay as vacant when a construction zone blocks it
• Coverage is the City of Melbourne municipality; the row count moves as sensors connect and reconnect to the network

Questions and answers

How often does the data refresh?

The dataset's quality metadata gives an update frequency of 2 Minutes and a source update frequency of Real-time. Updates arrive through network relays that can be disrupted, so the city asks users to watch the lastupdated column for delays.

What does each row hold?

One parking bay sensor: status_description (Present or Unoccupied), status_timestamp, lastupdated, kerbsideid, zone_number, and location with lat and lon. On the day this listing was written the metadata listed 6324 rows, and the city notes the count fluctuates as sensors connect and reconnect.

Do I need a key, and what license applies?

No key is needed for anonymous reads. The dataset is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY). The City of Melbourne accepts no responsibility for errors, omissions, or unavailability, per the dataset disclaimer.