Smart Parking has Arrived at Longbridge Railway Station

Located in the Longbridge area of Birmingham, Longbridge Railway Station has been in operation since 1978. The station is a hive of activity each day, with a steady flow of trains calling to service over one million passengers a year.

This amount of usage has put additional strain on parking facilities that are monitored by manual patrol.

With no occupancy monitoring technology, Transport for West Midlands had limited means to understand whether bays were being used by authorised users, which is why they turned to Smart Parking to install technology in their disabled and Save-a-Space bays.

Our solution

In February 2018, Smart Parking deployed our SmartPark system in the station’s customer car park. This included installing sensors in a select number of their defined use bays – both disabled and Save-a-Space – as well as SmartSpots, which relay real-time occupancy information to our SmartCloud.

The SmartPark service pack provides a dashboard of this information, allowing Transport for West Midlands to view live car park activity, record occupancy levels throughout the day and understand parking patterns for future planning.

The benefits

The insights from the system will allow Transport for West Midlands to make provisions for a better, more streamlined parking experience for their visitors.

Genuine users of the disabled bays will feel confident of a smooth visit, and drivers planning their journey using Save-a-Space will enjoy a better level of customer service. This means the station team can action enforcement where required if unauthorised vehicles is occupying spaces they shouldn’t be.

Information gathered from phase 1 of the installation will be used to determine deployment for more SmartSensors across the car park.

About Smart Parking Limited 

Smart Parking is leading the way in the delivery of proven, fully integrated end-to-end information technology that results in a transformation of the complete parking experience. This is based upon the ongoing exclusive innovations being progressively delivered and the extensive experience which it has developed. With over 40,000 vehicle detection sensors installed in 17 countries, in some of the industry’s largest deployments Smart Parking has achieved the position of holding the largest market share of the global intelligent parking sensor and integrated smart parking services market.

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