Nowadays, all large and medium-sized cities face severe problems accommodating growing urban freight transit due to the e-commerce and its parking demand in dense urban areas, such as: illegal parking (no permit, overstay), lack of parking space, lack of data, double parking, circling for parking, uncontrolled dwell time, ...
Cities are also deploying actions to tackle the state of climate emergency. These may include parking restrictions for vehicles with higher emissions – especially in the dense urban areas where air quality problems are most acute.
Urban freight ranks as 10%-15% of city traffic and it is responsible for 25% of urban transport-related CO2 emissions and 30 to 50% of other transport-related pollutants.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, City Logistics and Commerce are now seen to be key activities for cities: ensuring supplies and recovering economic activity as safely as possible.
The Parkunload solution enables the Digital Transformation of the Loading Zones to improve City Logistics, with an innovative, cost-effective and scalable platform, which has an excellent impact on drivers (convenience, space availability), parking authorities (space rotation, enforcement efficiency) and cities (knowledge, policy development
Parkunload enables digital, variable and dynamic parking conditions to regulate, control and monitor any type of loading zones in cities to improve urban freight with a sustainable business model that is feasibile and cost-effective for large-scale deployments in dense urban areas.
Parkunload app for drivers instantly displays the current parking permit and max parking time for the vehicle in the Smart Loading zones based on vehicles features and driver profile, as well as according to the contextual situation of the city, such as pollution, emergency or peak-demand episodes.
As a scalable and real-time platform, Parkunload turns to an excellent source of BIG DATA to monitor city logistics baseline charts, such as loading patterns and occupancy levels to optimize parking spaces and urban freight traffic.
Parkunload is a cost-effecive pltaform that provides immediate benefits to drivers and parking authorities, because it increments parking rotation and space availability (+30%) in the loading zones, it reduces illegal parking (-50%) and traffic congestion with less circling for parking and no double parking.
Parkunload enables is aligned with Green Deal Policies because the city can define and enforce parking policies for the urban freight transport with environmental criteria: vehicle emissions, vehicle type, freight schedules, etc. It is compatible with other efficient and sustainable last mile delivery strategies, such as consolidation centres, electric vehicle fleets, pedestrian areas, etc.
Parkunload's solution is extremely easy-to-install, scale and transfer. It is compatible with any smartphone of the market.
