“As a parking spot’s customer price increases, does its convenience increase too?”
Who doesn’t love looking for parking spots? (Hint: not
many people do.)
Looking for a place to park can be a real pain. How do you know if there
will be a spot for you, especially in a more expensive or more popular
location? And will it be accessible? We'll be diving deeper into how
these factors relate to each other.
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This illustration of a garage indicates a parking location. These
locations can be garages, malls, spots on the street, and so forth.
In The Netherlands, about 300.000 people are confined to a wheelchair.
Taken our population into account, that's about in 1 in every
57
people. Let's find out if the ratio of wheelchair-accessible parking
spots matches the amount of people that need to use wheelchairs.
Of course, the data used is a confined set of data, but it should give a
reasonable sample of the actual numbers. Let's take a look, shall we?
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Wheelchair-accessible parking
Out of this data,
41
out of
237
parking locations are wheelchair-accessible. That's about 1 in every
5. That's not enough. Ideally, in every parking location,
one in every 57 spots is accessible. Not one in every
5
locations.
Now, let’s look at how hourly parking cost affects
convenience.
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The following graph shows the average parking price per hour across
different location.
Parking price in €/hour
measured by city averages.
Let's take the averages of the cheapest and most expensive locations and
compare them based on convenience.
Convenience factor
Parking capacity
As it turns out, paying more for parking does not guarantee more
convenience. For one, most parking locations don't have electric vehicle
charging points.