FreefloatER fleet efficiency
Freefloating carsharers miss out on revenue due to inefficient location of vehicles. Our AI-powered service increases revenue by matching vehicle location to demand.
A portion of vehicles is parked in “cold zones”, where they will not be booked for a longer time. Moving them to current “hot zones” decreases the time until the next booking and increases revenue.
Our crowdsourcing approach minimises operational effort for the operator:
We connect to the operator APIs - All handling of users incl. payouts by Parkbob.
Parking ticket buster
Create a hassle-free parking experience with location-based Parking Alerts. No need to check, translate or interpret complicated parking rules and street signs - our parking alerts give end users easily actionable information the moment they want to stop at a parking space. The service can easily be integrated into apps, navigation systems or onboard head-units.
Commercial/Delivery Parking
Global package delivery services face growing demand for home delivery. This forces logistics partners to find new strategies to improve efficiency. Another problem delivery services face is parking fines - according to a recent article on wsj.com, 2.6 million parking tickets were issued against commercial vehicles in New York City in 2017. Parkbob offers to enhance routing optimization based on current on-street parking options and to alert drivers of potential parking rule violations.
Bus Parking
Parking a large vehicle like a coach in a dense city is a challenging task at best. Parkbob enables bus and coach drivers to find dedicated bus parking zones and is able to help the driver to avoid fines.
Pick-up/Drop-off Optimization
New mobility modes such as car hailing and ride sharing utilize parking space in a different way than individual traffic does. Instead of parking for a longer period of time, short pick-up and drop-off scenarios are the dominant use-cases. This leads to the question of space that is suitable for a pick-up or drop-off in terms of legality as well as safety for passengers. Whereas parking might be a no-go in an entryway, it may be the perfect spot to drop-off a passenger.
Satellite Ground Truth
Real-time prediction of parking availability has been around for some time now. Feedback from drivers is mixed as the quality of prediction does not always meet the driver’s expectation. Measuring the quality of availability prediction is generally a difficult activity, as the geographic and time dimension would require hundreds of thousands of samples to assess prediction accuracy. Parkbob has developed a technology that allows capturing the parking situation of an entire city at a certain point in time based on satellite imagery. This allows for benchmarking and quality assurance of existing prediction models, creation of a baseline as well as calibration of real-time prediction models as they generally lose accuracy over time.
Usage and Fee Reporting
An increasing number of cities introduce special tariff schemes for shared-economy services such as car-sharing. Generation of transaction based reports and calculation of fees require a permanent tracking of parking allowances and permits on top of simple parking tariffs. Parkbob enables real-time reporting and aggregation to reports compliant with city requirements.
