What is a Virtual Parking Occupancy Survey?

A parking occupancy survey measures how many parking spaces are being used at a specific time for a given area, which could include street parking, surface lots, or garage parking. While most garages and some surface lots will measure occupancy through gate counters, most surface lots and street parking do not feature automatic counting. For these areas, cities and property managers will conduct manual parking occupancy surveys, hiring someone to walk the streets or lots with a clipboard and count how many spaces for a given area are occupied. Manual parking occupancy surveys are expensive, labor-intensive, and error-prone.

Vecarta’s Virtual Survey platform instead makes this process easy, cost-effective, and verifiable by relying on satellite imagery and AI to do the work. without you needing to deploy limited resources into the field.