A leading trade publication for the parking industry has published an in-depth article about Kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities’ Kerb® Delivery solution, describing it as a “kerbside revolution cutting congestion in Southwark”.

The Parking Review feature explains how the solution has been implemented full-time on Walworth Road in the London borough after just 12 months of an 18-month trial.  The system allows freight drivers to book their kerbside loading slots in advance, enabling them to deliver goods and services to the right place at the right time – improving delivery certainty and reducing the risk of parking fines.

The Kerb® Delivery platform works by letting delivery drivers book a slot in a loading bay. They go on the app, register their vehicle and book.  When they arrive, the space is waiting and they can pull straight in – no more loitering in the carriageway or circling the roads.  Grid Smarter Cities has also developed a two-sided e-ink digital sign to go on the kerbside which integrates with the platform to display the booked vehicle’s details – its registration number and time slot.

The Parking Review article quotes figures from independent transport and infrastructure consultancy Stantec which show a 40% reduction equivalent in PCNs for operators and time savings for a single supermarket supplier would mean it could make up to 66 more deliveries a year.  This, it says, adds up to a Benefit to Cost Ratio of 3.8 for Southwark in 2024 thanks to Kerb® Delivery.  It also says that, with 26 weekly users delivering to more than 15 stores, the scheme has achieved utilisation rate of more than 80%.

Parking Review is a monthly journal that has been the definitive source of news and intelligence on the UK and international public and private parking sectors since 1989.

Read the full article here (pages 16-17).

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