Parking Data
Between December 2023 and January 2024, BBFI conducted an informal survey to evaluate the parking usage in central streets of six urban areas: Birmingham, Bristol, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Hammersmith, and Havering. The last time BBFI conducted a report of this nature was in 2019.
The primary objective was to gain insights into the occupancy rates of on-street parking and the utilisation of blue badges. Trained BBFI investigators, acting independently, saw the streets with on-street parking located within or in close proximity to the commercial centres. They recorded three key pieces of information:
- the total capacity of parking spaces available on each street
- the number of currently parked vehicles
- the number of parked vehicles displaying blue badges
These counts were conducted on five to six occasions in the same streets within each area, exclusively during business hours. The survey did not collect any personally identifiable information regarding vehicles or badges.