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Parknav launches real-time street parking information

Parknav is an on-street parking solution that navigates drivers in real-time to available on-street parking in metropolitan areas without needing additional hardware. The system utilises a mix of data and crowdsourcing paired with machine learning, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to provide an optimised search route to navigate drivers to the nearest on-street parking space.
March 3, 2017 Read time: 1 min

Parknav is an on-street parking solution that navigates drivers in real-time to available on-street parking in metropolitan areas without needing additional hardware. The system utilises a mix of data and crowdsourcing paired with machine learning, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to provide an optimised search route to navigate drivers to the nearest on-street parking space.

It is available either as a mobile app or for integration into existing third party solutions and platforms and also allows drivers to see the location of nearby off-street parking garages.

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