PULSE

Parking Utilisation Ledger for Street-level Enforcement

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement reports PULSE, an in-pavement sensor grid that computes a live occupancy index for on-street parking bays and feeds a bounded control loop that revises each street's tariff on a fixed cycle. Across a fourteen-street, twenty-two-week pilot, streets under PULSE hold occupancy within their target band for a consistently higher share of daytime hours than the fixed-rate meters they replaced, and the system's escalation path automatically suspends a street's permit-holder discounts for the remainder of the billing quarter once its occupancy index sustains a breach, with no manual override.

@misc{slop_u5czt1,
  author       = {Kwame Lindqvist and Renke Sabel and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {PULSE: Parking Utilisation Ledger for Street-level Enforcement},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.u5czt1},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-sensor-grid-u5czt1/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}