Clancy Survey

Clancy Survey is an application designed to collect and analyze parking meter useage by date, by time, by vehicle, as well as payment statistics, for on street parking.

It does this by giving a picture of the on street issues in one area on one day. It really is the best management tool to assit you in discovery of parking space and meter utilization, enforcement, vehicle turnover, and disabled parking useage.

Record Space Information

The first time covering the route, information about it needs to be recorded into a handheld device. In addition to each route being assigned it's own name, and the names of each street being recorded, each space is assigned a number, and you'll want to record whether or not it has a meter.

Then, as you visit each space on the route, if there is a vehicle parked in the space, you'll record the license plate, state, whether the meter is paid for or not, as well as if it is handicapped, bagged or out of service.

Analysis

Back at the office, the data collected from the handheld device is then imported into an Excel spreadsheet.

There it can be analyzed. If you look at the spreadsheet image on the right, you'll see that each space on each street, as well as a Y or an N, indicating the existance of a meter in the rows.

As each row extends on to the left, each pass, or visit, to the space is also shown with the plate, state and a letter indicating the status of the meter.

The colored portions show how a vehicle that has remained in the space for more than one pass is listed.

Charts

The information becomes most useful when presented in data and chart form.

There are numerous ways to analyze the data you have collected.

Viewing the Parking Space Makeup provides information on how the spaces are utilized as a whole.

Break down the data to provide useage statistics such as how long the meters are being used.

When does the heaviest parking space or meter useage occur? A chart on utilization by time will tell you.

And, of course, an important factor in targeting enforcement efforts is the question; When are the meter violations taking place?

Click here for a power point presentation, or here for an Excel spreadsheet, showing more ways to lay out and analyze your data.