The Transport for NSW Car Park API provides real time occupancy of selected Transport Park&Ride and Sydney Metro car parks across Greater Sydney, with historical occupancy data for each car park available from its date of integration into the API.
The Greater Sydney Car Parks currently included in the Cark Park API are:
Tallawong Station | Kellyville Station | Bella Vista Station | Hills Showground Station | Cherrybrook Station |
Gordon | Kiama | Gosford | Revesby | Warriewood |
Narrabeen | Mona Vale | Dee Why | West Ryde | Sutherland |
Leppington | Edmondson Park South | St Marys | Campbelltown Farrow Rd North | Campbelltown Hurley St South |
Penrith Combewood | Penrith Combewood Multi-Level | Ashfield | Kogarah | Seven Hills |
Manly Vale | Brookvale | Warwick Farm |
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Car Park API Use Cases
Real time car park availability via the Car Park API has several use cases, including providing Transport for NSW car park customers with up-to-date information on parking availability at their destination through apps and other digital products.
One such app is ParkNPay, an app that helps you with all aspects of parking: finding parking meters closest to your car and paying for your stay, real-time Park&Ride car park availability, electric vehicle charging station locations, and more. The app also provides notifications to remind you when your meter is about to expire and allows parking payments for multiple vehicles.
If you’re a user of transport app AnyTrip, you might have noticed real-time occupancy is available for a car park near you. The app also allows you to search for car parks using the mode filter icons. Tapping on a car park from the list will provide occupancy information as well as an indication of when the data was last updated.
The Live Traffic NSW website provides information on traffic conditions - such as floods and roadworks - that may affect your journey, as well as live traffic cameras and a trip planner to find the most efficient route for your drive. Car park occupancy information is also available – simply tap the ‘P’ parking icon on your chosen car park to view the number of free spaces.
Improving access to real-time parking availability information for our customers helps to make journey planning more convenient, and can help to reduce traffic, with up to 30% of traffic in cities caused by drivers looking for parking. When drivers can find a parking space quickly and efficiently, time spent idling and circling is reduced, which contributes to a reduction in both traffic and emissions.
Parking apps are not the only use case for the Car Park API. Urban planners can use historical car park occupancy data to optimise traffic flows, assess current and future infrastructure needs in a given area, design more efficient parking lots and compare car park usage in different areas.
From car park usage data it is also possible to garner information about a neighbourhood and how people interact with it. A full car park during work hours that is empty on weekends might indicate that a neighbourhood is lacking in soft infrastructure, whereas the reverse may indicate a need for better public transport links for commuters. Changes in the usage levels of car parks over time can also be a signifier of changes in the economic activity of local hubs and city centres.
New car parks will be added to the Car Park API as they are available. To explore data already available in the API, sign up or log in to the Open Data Hub.