The goal of this study is to find the most common type and location of parking infraction. We can then determine any alternate parking available at that location. We can also analyse the socio-demagraphic trends of the neighborhoods with most infractions.
Parking Infractions Datasets from 2016 to 2020 available on the City of Toronto’s Open Data portal: https://open.toronto.ca/. was used in this analysis, along with Green P Parking and Toronto Neighborhood Datasets
- The most common Infraction observed was PARK ON PRIVATE PROPERTY with 1924498 cases followed by PARK-SIGNED HWY-PROHIBIT DY/TM.
- The nearest parking locations for the top 20 infractions are seen on this map. Most different types of infractions are concentrated in Downtown Toronto, which means that vehicle users find it difficult to get a parking spot or wish to avoid paying parking fees.
Also due to the high number of restuarants and busy nature of these streets, food delivery drivers may become easy targets in this area.
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Common Trend observed is that:
a. The locations with the most parking infractions have a higher number of immigrnt populations, similar age trends with majority of the population between 25-54 years.
b. Umployment Rates are similar thorughout and Male Female Ratio is also observed to be the same.
c. People living alone are concentrated in Downtown Toronto, having lower average Household Size.
d. Downtown Toronto has higher Working Class Individuals while other locations have higher number of Children in the households.
- The location for the most infractions was 2075 BAYVIEW AV with 32521 infractions, 20 EDWARD STREET with 19343 and 1265 MILITARY TRL with 14862 infractions. The most common infraction at these locations wer PARK ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The first address is for the SUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL, second is a street in Downtown, Toronto and 3rd is the address for University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus.
A trend observed here is that over 50% of the top location (13 considered in our study) are in and around local tourist attractions, parks or universities.
- Another trend observed is that the number of infractions are traditionally lower during the winter months December to February. However in the year 2020, because of enforced Lockdown during COVID the summer months have the lowest number of infractions.
