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Project - CALIFORNIA: SFpark Parking Management Program in the City of San Francisco

As part of the Urban Partnership Agreement, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will be implementing a comprehensive smart parking system to help manage congestion. This system will be used to better manage a significant portion of the City's parking supply, including: 13 city-controlled parking garages, one city controlled parking lot, and approximately 25% of the City's on-street metered parking supply. The primary strategies used to achieve the congestion-management goals of this program will be demand-responsive pricing to manage parking towards availability targets, enhanced parking regulation enforcement, and new parking information systems. These strategies will be supported by new technologies including networked in-street parking sensors and parking meters that support various forms of payment, including coins, smart cards, as well as credit and debit cards.

Implementation Funds Awarded

August 2007

Anticipated Completion Date

March 2010

July - September 2011 Update

The first demand-responsive rate change was completed, including all technical preparations, testing, and communications. Development of the SFpark data warehouse, transactional, and asset management system continued, including basic business intelligence analytical ability for parking data. A book was prepared for a two-day USDOT parking conference in San Francisco that summarized work accomplished and lessons learned thus far, a pdf of which is available at http://sfpark.org/resources-overview/. More project information can be found at: www.sfpark.org.

For More Information Contact

Jay Primus
SFpark Manager
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority
Phone: (415) 701-5413
E-mail: jay.primus@sfmta.com

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