Berlin’s city authority has published a digital data set of over 1.2 million public parking spaces. It is the first time that the city authority has published parking data for the entire city area. The aim is to enable joined-up planning of traffic and air pollution control. Berlin’s development partner is Materna subsidiary TraffGo Road.

As part of a research project on the extended environmentally sensitive traffic management system (eUVM), the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment (SenMVKU) had previously published a data set including all parking spaces in public streets within the S-Bahn ring.

With the latest publication, the data has now been expanded to cover the entire Berlin urban area.

The data can be viewed on the mobility platform Digital Platform Urban Transport. The publication creates a Berlin-wide digital data basis for the first time, allowing parking spaces across Berlin to be quantified, visualised and used for current and future planning.

“In order to better understand the connections between traffic and air pollution control planning, public parking spaces in the area outside the Berlin S-Bahn ring have now been mapped. The data set supports traffic and city planners in their daily work to make traffic more environmentally friendly. We can use it to find out within a few seconds how many parking spaces there are in a district or which parking spaces are affected by a traffic measure. Up until now, this required on-site counts,” said Berlin Senator for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment, Ute Bonde.

The mapping of the area outside the S-Bahn ring was commissioned and completed outside the research project. This was done using a surveying road survey from 2021.

Due to the difference in data collection, the data set now published contains coarser categorisations. In the entire Berlin area, there are 1,276,312 public street parking spaces with an area of approximately 14,600,000 square meters. The visualisation of the online map is fed by the open source geoportal.