November 17, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab researchers Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Fiete Krutein, Andisheh Ranjbari, and Anne Goodchild have published a new paper on “Providing Curb Availability Information to Delivery Drivers Reduces Cruising for Parking” in Scientific Reports — the first work to explore the impacts of providing curb parking availability data to delivery drivers and evaluate the benefits of digital curb visibility.
Through real-world practical experiment, the usage of a parking forecasting app like Urban Freight Lab’s OpenPark has considerable benefits for delivery drivers — a 30% reduction in time spent cruising for parking, demonstrating the user benefit of investments in curb data and curb management.
This paper is the culmination of our work sponsored by Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), U.S. Department of Energy in collaboration Seattle Department of Transportation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Fybr, Lacuna Technologies, and Cleverciti.
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About the Urban Freight Lab (UFL): An innovative public-private partnership housed at the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center at the University of Washington, the Urban Freight Lab is a structured workgroup that brings together private industry with City transportation officials to design and test solutions around urban freight management.