Putting dynamic Kerbside Management on the map
Grid Smarter Cities, software solutions provider and Buchanan Computing, mapping and IT specialists are launching a new integration to support local authorities with planning and mapping their bookable loading bays using on-street parking data.
Grid are continuing to expand their portfolio of services to make the realm of managing city kerbside activity easier and smarter for local authorities.
This integration will link Grid’s kerbside management product, Kerb, into the ParkMap software. ‘Kerb’ is a clever platform and app that allows kerbside slots to be booked in advance by parcel and delivery companies. This enables delivery drivers to have certainty that they will have a place to park to drop off goods or unload heavy deliveries on arrival to their destinations. Further, giving local authorities more control over how they manage this stretched piece of real estate in real time, with more flexibility, while opening up the possibilities for multiple use cases. Think delivery bay by day — streeterie in the evening and taxi bay by night.
ParkMap is the UK’s leading solution for creating digital traffic orders, providing local authorities with an accessible map-based inventory of parking and moving traffic regulations. Integrated with this are full facilities for the order-making process, to aid productivity and keep the permanent records updated. ParkMap has the functionality needed to manage and communicate a regularly changing set of traffic orders. The integration now combines this functionality with the innovative kerbside management platform, Kerb.
Quote by Neil Herron, CEO + Founder, Grid Smarter Cities
This integration with ParkMap and strategic relationship with Buchanan is very exciting for us. As awareness of the operational, environmental and societal benefits of effective kerbside management grows both at national policy level and a local implementation level the benefits for the freight, servicing and delivery sectors can start to be realised along with the congestion reduction and air quality benefits for local residents and businesses. The integration of the Kerb Platform will help local authorities to seamlessly implement and manage bookable loading bays and coordinate delivery activity.
Quote by Alex Smith, MD of Buchanan Computing
We very much welcomed this opportunity to work with a like-minded company focused as we are on delivering innovative solutions to the UK’s ever growing number of smart cities and towns. To achieve the benefits of improved kerbside management, we have created a new endpoint to our API service, enabling a continuous flow of up-to-date data to be consumed by Kerb.
For more information on this integration, please contact: Neil.Herron@gridsmartercities.com
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About Grid Smarter Cities
Grid Smarter Cities is a technology and software solutions company founded in 2009, specialising in kerbside management solutions for commercial freight. It has 15 granted patents across several territories covering kerbside delivery, servicing and construction sectors.
Grid has assembled a unique team and suite of solutions to address the full complexity of freight servicing and delivery challenges. Grid’s award-winning solutions have attracted worldwide interest from cities, transport & infrastructure companies, consultancies, and strategic international investors.
About Buchanan
Buchanan Computing are the developers of ParkMap, the widest used application by local authorities for the management and creation of their traffic orders. It is also a leading supplier of software and training for traffic professionals, with over 25 years’ experience in computer mapping, design and data management for the highway and the provision of training and hosting services.
Buchanan Computing have been at the forefront of development of standardisation of digital traffic orders and have made a significant contribution to both APDS and TRODD projects, which have in part been sponsored by the DfT.
Its range of products for highway and traffic engineers and the police includes SignPlot, ParkMap and AccsMap: the UK’s best-selling systems for traffic sign design, traffic order management and road collision analysis, respectively.
Media Notes:
- Kerbside management helps to ease congestion, reduce impact on the environment and air quality, and improve safety on the capital’s roads
- A kerbside management scheme in London has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by 15,000 tonnes per annum — equivalent to removing 12,600 cars off the road
- 21 per cent more deliveries could be enabled with improved operational efficiency for freight operators
- Drivers would not face the hassle of finding safe and suitable kerbside locations to park — saving 3 million hours in wasted delivery driver time per annum across London
- A kerbside management scheme could reduce freight, servicing and delivery kilometres by 20 million per annum in London
- London boroughs could introduce Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure at locations for ‘graze’ charging
- A kerbside management scheme could generate up to £140 million in revenue for London per annum
