Parking

The Parking Working Group brings POLIS members and the European Parking Association together to discuss challenges and foster innovation related to urban parking policies and practices.

Through the Working Group, POLIS facilitates coordination between authorities and professionals in charge of parking policy, on-street and off-street and public and private parking, urban planning, and curb-space management.

These activities are conducted in partnership with the European Parking Association, with which POLIS has signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate, among other activities, cooperation with local and regional stakeholders to address topics such as parking regulations, EV charging infrastructure, and sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs), as well as curb-space management linked to the deployment of new mobility services and urban logistics.

POLIS Parking Working Group activities ar also conducted in collaboration with related projects such as eCharge4Drivers and ShareDiMobiHub. Other past related projects include MORE and Park4SUMP.

The main topics being discussed in this Working Group are:

• Parking policies and infrastructure for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs);
• On and off-street parking;
• Public-private partnerships.
• Parking standards.
• Dynamic curb-space management

The group supports the Alliance for Parking Data Standards (APDS).

POLIS supports the bi-annual EPA Congress.

Topic priorities for 2025

Our current topic priorities for 2025 are the following:

• Parking and energy: Parking facilities can become locations for energy production and EV Charging. Questions and topics to be discussed, include parking as part of Positive Energy Districts (SCALE and TIPS4PED projects); EVs and fire hazard (with RISE); parking and EV charging business models; EV charging, parking, and accessibility: demand, accessible parking, curb space management, how inclusive mobility and parking management intersect with growing electromobility in urban areas;
• Parking and accessibility: European Disability and parking cards and the need to help Member States with the digitalisation of the European Parking Card; continued dialogue with European Disability Forum and European Parking Association on European Parking Card; parking at the workplace: implications of providing parking to employees as a work perk’;
• Open shared data space for parking information: using open-source data-sharing specifications to communicate parking information and dynamically manage parking space; Mobility Data Space: link to EMDS project and NAPCORE; Curb Data Specification: OMF’s curbside management data sharing standard; advanced parking technologies: automated valet parking.