What is ParkingCarma?

We all know that euphoric feeling you get when pulling up to a restaurant in a crowded city on a weekend night and suddenly someone leaves a parking space right in front of you.  That is the true definition of “Parking Karma.”

Great, but what is ParkingCarma?

 
ParkingCarma is a Smart Parking Information and Transaction Network to help guide users to be best available and appropriate parking space for their needs.  We allow users to store preferences, track usage, and make reservations at selected parking facilities for hourly and monthly parking.

ParkingCarma is aggregating and normalizing the largest and most complete database of private and commercial parking facilities, hours, rates, attributes, and editorial comments in the United States.  We are also installing parking sensors for real-time parking availability in selected parking facilities in a city-by-city rollout of our service.  The first markets for our real-time parking service are in San Diego and in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Stay tuned as our service grows in these markets and expands nationwide.

 
If you search for parking and can’t make reservations or check parking availability in your city, please be patient as we roll-out our service.  In the meantime, you can currently check hours and rates for parking facilities in over 1,000 cities and growing!

 
Email us at support@parkingcarma.com with suggestions on parking facilities to include in our system.

ParkingCarma is also committed to the environment and is working with municipalities and transit agencies towards the goal of congestion relief and mitigation.  Our service integrates with transit systems to insure that people can easily find and be guaranteed a place to park if they want to take public transportation.

 
This post was geared more toward the consumer offerings by ParkingCarma.  Stay tuned for a post specific to the benefits to cities and parking managers.

Here are some of the current and future features of ParkingCarma:

Parking Search

• Find parking by address, city, state or zipcode
• Find parking by closest destination (Point of Interest)
• Compare parking rates for specific days and times (apples to apples comparison)
• Search by preferences (time, walking distance from destination, amenities)

Parking Availability

• Real -time parking availability at select sites from the web

• Real-time parking availability from VMS signs

• Real-time parking availability from voice IVR

Reservations

• Daily and hourly reservations at select sites
• Web based reservations

User Accounts

• Credit card payment for parking
• Transactional history of parking events
• Classify parking transactions as business or personal
• Saved personal preferences for convenient searching and reserving

Payment Options

• Visa, Amex, Mastercard, Discover

• PayPal, Amazon.com Payments, Google Checkout, e-check