Paris Tackles Growing Pressures On Its Loading Zones

With the rise of e -commerce, Paris, like many other large cities, is experiencing some challenges with its 9600 public loading zones that were designed several decades ago. Discussions between the city and logistics actors reveal that illegally occupied or not properly sized loading zones are leading deliveries to be conducted from the street, resulting on traffic congestion and risky working conditions. We are looking for solutions to improve the control of the airs of livraison which can't be done automatically as the rest of the stationing at Paris because it's not a stationing, it's a free order order. The only control we have is the verification of the time passed through the air with the European disque bleu. So it's a visual control that should do the control agent in passing regularly. at the proximity of the delivery areas, so we doubt that there is a little effective control and especially that the verbalization is the removal of the vehicle. Michel -Angélique Nicolle is assistant to the head of Public Space sharing and air quality division at the city of Paris. She is currently evaluating a smart delivery parking solution that combines Bluetooth devices, cameras, and ground sensors deployed across 132 deliveries. delivery's areas in the city's 4th district. It's an urban area of the centre of Paris, so it's very old, small streets, very commercial. And it's true that the city of Paris was very voluntary to enter into this experimentation. The Smart Delivery Parking project is based on a combination of two solutions. The first involves a Bluetooth device mounted on a road signage. When a driver approaches a loading zone, he connects through a digital dedicated app to the Bluetooth device so he can start a parking session. This app will communicate its ongoing session to the central platform that will then determine the loading zone occupancy. The collected information from all the loading zones equipped with this device are provided to other drivers so they can easily locate a free loading zone, law enforcement officers so they can monitor illegal parking, and city representatives. so they can better understand loading zones' parking patterns to optimize their use. We also have data, whether this air of delivery is used by heavy weight or by light vehicles. So it also helps us to predict the needs of the dimensions of the air of delivery and at which hours they are used. The appeal for such a Bluetooth solution appears to be based on its simplicity, portability and cost effectiveness. If you want to move that roadside to another area, to another zone, you just have to take the sign to another zone and install that there. And it works if you, for instance, if you want to change that type of loading zone, and it's not 24 hours, it's from 8 to 8, so we can do it also from the back -office. It's supposed to be work for installing the capter on the ground with, at every time, a diagnostic amiant of the place of delivery. So that's something a bit heavy. And then for visual captures, place them on a field of labors in proximity. We know that we can't equip all the places in visual captures because there's not necessarily a field of labors in proximity to the delivery area. The Bluetooth device costs about 130 euros per loading zone and the software about 2.5 euros per space per month. For the city, it's important. It means simply to install small Bluetooth devices near each area of delivery. And for the user, yes, it must be declared on the application, but it is not more complicated than to put his European blue disk with his arrival. The inconvenience of this solution is that it cannot detect the illicit station. If it is not declared on the air, the application cannot detect it. deviner. D 'où l 'idée de coupler cette solution avec les capteurs puisque là les capteurs même si on n'utilise pas l'application, si on ne se déclare pas, on sait qu 'il y a présence d 'un véhicule sur l 'aire de livraison. Les 132 R aujourd'hui disponibles dans l'arrondissement sont équipés de la solution Park Unload et parmi ces 132 R il y en a 32 qui sont équipés de capteurs, 10 on the ground and 22 by visual capture. To better manage costs, the city decided to equip only some strategic loading zones with ground sensors connected through the city radio signal or video sensors with 3G connectivity sourced through another vendor called ParkingMap. The user doesn't necessarily know if the air that he uses, in addition to the application, is equipped with a capture. So he takes the risk if he doesn't declare himself. For the city, it was very important to ensure a smooth experience for the users, so despite having two different solutions, they are both unified in one app. The overall cost of this project is about 500 ,000 euros, and it includes... ...toute la préparation logicielle, qui a été assez importante, l'achat du matériel, la pose du matériel... the fabrication of signal panels, the position of these panels, and the communication around the project. All of this is 500,000 euros, and the half is subventioned by the Île-de-France region since we were the laureates, as I said earlier, of a call to the interest of interest in the Île-de-France region. This pilot program will last for a year possibility of a six months extension. Today, Paris has 9600 loading zones and is about to add a thousand more. The results of this pilot and the data it will generate will determine how many loading zones in Paris will become smart. 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