Presentation made at the workshop "Gestão do Controlo de Acesso e Estacionamento em Zonas Históricas" made in Lisbon on June 20th

1. Gabriele Folli
Deputy Mayor Environment and Mobility
Comune di Parma
Parking control and LTZ access in the city of Parma
Workshop Gestão do Controlo de Acesso e
Estacionamento em Zonas Históricas
20 de Junho de 2017
Auditório da Biblioteca Orlando Ribeiro – Estrada de Telheiras 146, 1600-598 Lisboa

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Parma a middle size european town
• University 23.000 students (60% coming from outside
province)
• Head office of EFSA (European Food Safety
Authority)
• Named UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in
2015
• Long tradition in agriculture, food and industrial food
processing
• Long tradition in opera music (Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro
Regio)
• Touristics flows rapidly increasing in
last 5 years

3. Parma – City general figures
■ 194.374 inhabitants in 260,6 km2 (745 inh/km2)
■ 24.124 in the historical center (2,4 km2; 10.093
inh/km2)
■ 129.060 in urban area (29 km2; 4.407 inh/km2)
■ 41.190 in rural area (229 km2 ; 178 inh/km2)
■ 96.141 families, 12.337 business activities
■ 15% of the population of different native language
■ Important presence of University students coming
from outside (66% on a total of 26.000 students)

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Urban Mobility Context
• Area: 261 Km2
• Cars registered (in the city): 130.000
• Cars registered (in the province):
370.000
• Road network: 1.268 km
• Cycling tracks: 130 km
• LTZ:: 46% of downtown
• Low speed zones: 20% of the city
• Pedestrian zones: 8% of downtown
Public Transport
Modal split
• 237 km urban lines + 1.970 km
extra-urban lines
• 60% of the fleet with low emissions
buses (electric, CNG, Euro 4 or
more)
• 34 millions of passengers per year
• 17 urban lines (4 are electric trolley
buses)
• «Happybus» school service (51
schools, 1346 users, 565.000
km/year)
• Night bus on demand «ProntoBus»

5. Sump timeline
March 21 2017*
Final approval of the SUMP in the Municipal
Council
Jan 2015
Start
Jul 2015
Web page,
survey, swot
analysys,
state of the
art
Sep 2015
Approval by the
municipal
gouvernement
of strategy and vision
document
Jul 2016
Focus groups,
update traffic
data , SEA
(strategic env.
assessment),
participation
Sep/Nov
2016
Approval by
the local
gouverneme
nt of the
plan,
adoption of
the plan by
the
municipal
council
Dec 2016/
Feb 2017
Comments
reception by
stakeholders
and citizens,
counterargu
ments, SEA
approval
*Parma second city in Italy to have an approved SUMP

6. Performance indicators
SR SP2
Mobility modal split
Actual situation SUMP goals

7. Parking and access policies
• Parking regulation and access policies
are key factors in order to regulate access
to historical city center
• Pricing and time limit policies are useful to
ease parking rotation in certain areas
(i.e. residents, customers of shop keepers,
hospital)
• Pricing policies has been applied also to
incentivate purchasing of low emission
vehicles (CNG, LPG, electric, etc.)
• Competition between public transport and private cars use can be greatly
tuned working on parking and access policies
Parking regulation and access policies are strategic factors
to proceed towards sustainable mobility in our cities

8. Infomobility, 100% owned by the
municipality of Parma
The company is 100% public company owned by the
municipality and is in charge of handling:
• Parking spots
• 2 multi-storey car parks
• Control cameras on LTZ and bus lanes
• «Cicletteria» the bike hub at the railway
station
• Bike-sharing
• Car sharing
• European projects on sustainable
mobility
90% of the incomes coming from parking spots (5000k Euro)

9. Limited Traffic Zone
• 3 control cameras at
the access
• Cameras active 7/7
from 7,30 to 19,30
• LTZ actually 46% of
the city’s historical
centre
• Other 3 cameras on
bus preferential lanes

10. Limited Traffic Zone
• Access permitted to 30.000 users
– Residents
– Deliveries, shop owners and other workers
– Public authorities
– Journalists
– Hotels
– Disable people and elders
– Doctors
– Low emissions vehicles
– Non residents but with a private garage
inside the area
– Occasional users (daily ticket or 2hour
ticket)
• 3.000 parking spots type inside the area
– Toll parkging (blue stripes)
– Reserved to residents (night-time – blue-
white stripes)
– Loading and unloading
– Reserved to disable
LTZ area will cover
100% of the historical
city center within
2020

11. Parking pass categories in LTZ
• Low emission vehicles can park only ½ hour with Disc Parking
• Categories 5 and 7 can have limited parking time according to type of
user
• Residents, disable and part of public authority category are free of charge
Ref Type of user ZTL
Parking
& transit
Only
transit
1 Low emissions vehicles 10.506 ●
2 Residents 6.253 ●
3 Non residents but with a private garage inside the area 4.247 ●
4 Disable people and elders 3.593 ●
5 Deliveries, shop owners and other workers 3.558 ●
6 Public authorities 569 ●
7 Schools 360 ●
8 Doctors 191 ●
9 Hotels 91 ●
10 Journalists 70 ●
Total 29.438 14.685 14.753

12. Parking spot type in LTZ
• Blue/White stripes occupancy are reserved to residents during night time
and upon payment for the daytime
• Part of the disable parking spots are reserved to nominated users and
the rest available for occasional disable users (52 on 185)
• Loading/unloading spots has different allowed parking time according to
the area
Parking spot type ZTL
Blue stripes 578
Loading/unloading 180
Disable 185
Blue/White Stripes 2.059
Total 3.002

13. • Parking meters at the entrance of the LTZ
accept both cash and credit cards and are
connected to control cameras database to
put regular entrance in white list
Occasional user ticket for LTZ
+64%
Tickets sold for 2-hour
or daily access in LTZ
• Disable people has 48h
time to comunicate the
plate number to avoid
fine from control
cameras and they have
free access
Future development: sell bus tickets through
parking meters

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Loading/unloading for shop keepers

15. Street with limited parking time
• In some cases (central streets, hospital area, public offices) parking time is
limited to 1 or 2 hours in order to favour park rotation
• Parking in these areas have to be paid with parking meters or app even for
those who has parking passes (i.e. residents)

16. Areas outside the city center
where parking is regulated
• Parking regulation often well
accepted and required by
residents in order to avoid
parking by commuters
• Free parking pass for
residents which doesn’t have
a garage
Parking spot type LTZ+Outside center
Blue stripes 9.928
Loading/unloading 326
Disable 623
Blue/White Stripes 3.100
Total 13.977
436 parking meters located in
LTZ and areas outside center

17. • 3.700 car parks available in multi-storey parks
mainly around the LTZ
• Real time availability with
Multi-storey parking facilities

18. • A series of ring-road inter-changing car parls connected with public transport
and car/bike sharing with the city center
• Parking is for free and bus ticket
sold at the inter-changing car
park is valid for the whole day
at a discounted cost
Inter-changing car parks
Our goal
Reduce access of
private cars to the
city center

19. • Urban mobility designed to ease the use of different
mobility means to reach the destination
Most of the bike sharing stations are strategically
located to encourage intermodality near:
• bus stops (24)
• inter-changing car parks (2)
• multi-storey car parks (8)
• car sharing spots (9)
• electric charging stations
Intermodality

20. • Free parking and access to LTZ and bus lanes for electric cars
• Electric charging station network available in che city center
Free access to electric and plug-in cars

21. Parking pass type
Plate number
Description of
the authorization
Pass type
Area where is
possible to
access/park
Yearly adhesive
stamp for
renewal
Pass number
Anti-
counterfeiting
TAG RFID-HF
inside

22. • Parking spots ticket can be paid also through
smartphone app Easy Park
Tools for electronic payment
+80%
Tickets sold
2016vs2015
with Easy Park
(10% on the total)
45% of access in multi-storey parks w/Telepass
• Electronic toll collection (Telepass) in
the most used multi-storey parks

23. • Dedicated app for urban mobility integrating all the
information available for bus, bike sharing, car
sharing, bike lanes and parking facilities
• Multi-storey parking availability in real time on the
app
• Info on bus lines and bike sharing stations available
in inter-changing car parks and MSP
App GiroParma – Parking facilities

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Control activities
• A total of 30 operators works on control
and fines
• Average level of presence in each of the
25 sub-zones reaching 64% in 2016
(+13% vs 2015)
• Average of 126 fines issued per day in
2016 (+16% compared to 2015)
Average presence of the opertors per shift Nr.
Morning shift 10
Afternoon shift 7
Evening shift 4
The goal is not to increase fines but to
increase regular payments

25. Control cameras
• Connection to pass
database (all the vehicles
are photographed but
immediately cancelled if in
white-list due to privacy
issues)
• Occasional user are verified
in a later step
• In every point of access 2
cameras are used (1 for the
plate and 1 for the context)
An average of 4 operators
control data coming from 11
cameras

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Parking control operators
• SIM connection to parking passes database
• Connection with external application such as Easy Park and
Simon Mobile
• Integrated photo-camera 5 Mpx used in case of fine
• GPS connection to localize the place where the fine issued
• NFC system to control the validity of the parking pass
(expecially used for disable passes)
• Integrated software to issue the fine directly connected with
ERP

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Earnings vary by area

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Parking pass Yearly renewed
• Strong advertising campaign to move
people from front office payment to online or
bank/post office methods to avoid queues
Type of payment Nr. of users %
Bank payment 3.069 15%
Post office 10.959 55%
Credita card 2.473 12%
Front office 3.313 17%
Total 19.814 100%

29. • European project developped together with Lisbon
and Madrid for a series of mobility services dedicated
to disable
• Smartphone application dedicated for elders and
disable people to identify reserved parking spots
• Develop an european standard for disable parking pass
(with tag RFID and QR Code)
Mobility for disable people

30. Intelligent mobility
• New service contract signed in
2017 for smart lighting foreseen
the substitution of 2/3 of the
37.000 lights in the city with low
consumption technologies
• 66% savings on actual energy
consumed (21 millions kwh/year)
• Wi-Fi technology can be applied
on each pole to control lighting
and install a wide variety of
sensors (control cameras, traffic
sensors, pollution sensors, etc)
Future development
Using sensors and/or cameras
mounted on lighting poles to
verify parking spot availability

31. Mobility under total control
• Integrating all the information related to mobility to a central control
room
• The IT infrastructure will integrate data analisys, reporting and
simulation software
• Information will be both available for the decision makers and users
thath will have access to a simplified version

32. …and finally, a look on the future
Driverless cars
• VisLab a spin-off from Parma University
leader in the development of driverless
technologies
• Dedicated urban area for testing
• Future applications to public transport,
cleaning vehicles, etc.
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A permanent test area in our city

33. Thank you for your attention
Comune di Parma
Gabriele Folli
Deputy Mayor for Environement & Mobility
e-mail: folli@comune.parma.it