Kerbside management specialist Arcadis is to provide its solutions for the City of West Hollywood, California and the City of Kirkland, Washington. The solution will help optimise parking, reduce congestion, and enhance mobility within these cities.

The company will implement its CurbIQ product in both cities.

In Kirkland, Arcadis will provide a smart parking solution to centralise tracking of parking supply and demand and make informed decisions to improve mobility and kerbside operations. The goal is to integrate parking solutions, including sensors, real-time data and mobile apps to optimise city centre parking and enhance current and future services within Kirkland. Arcadis aims to establish a comprehensive hub for communicating and accessing parking usage information, supporting parking navigation based on selected trip criteria by end users for the city.

Alan Brookes, CEO of Arcadis, said: “The market for creating smart and connected cities is expected to reach more than US$3.5 trillion worldwide by 2030, and this opens-up massive growth potential for our digital products. Technology-enabled solutions like CurbIQ are integral to helping our clients create efficiency savings and interact more effectively with their customers.”

Peter Richards, Product Bundle Director at Arcadis, said: “As a leading end-to-end kerbside management solution, CurbIQ provides an innovative, efficient approach to meet the goals and objectives of the cities of West Hollywood and Kirkland. Our experience in completing kerb space management strategies, data collection techniques and kerbside pilot project implementation helps position Arcadis and CurbIQ as a market leader in providing kerbside solutions for cities.”

The CurbIQ platform provides a variety of tools for kerbside data collection, visualisation, management, and analysis.

The platform was recently awarded a contract with Sourcewell, a self-sustaining government agency that helps governments, schools and non-profit organisations across North America work more efficiently through cooperative purchasing.