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1 Introduction
The Alliance for Parking Data Standards (APDS) is managing the creation of a consensus - built international parking and kerbside data specification to establish a common language for data concepts and definitions in the parking, transportation, and mobility sectors that will facilitate seamless integration, compatibility, and communication between parking entities, the automotive sector, IT developers, services, and map and app providers, as well as other stakeholders. In addition, APDS has proposed these specifications to ISO as the basis of a future ISO global standard.
APDS Technical Documentation
The APDS Technical Documentation describes a set of data concepts and definitions that public and private parking owners, operators, service providers can adopt and use as a common language to facilitate the communication of data between themselves and other sectors.
The specification comprises a set of documents that define the various data related to parking and kerbside management operations and show the relation of these data to each other. The documentation includes the following documents and information:
- Information Model Document: o List of data namespaces, packages, classes, attributes and relationships o Defined lists of acceptable entries for certain data elements o Identified references to other standards, as appropriate. o Relationship diagram showing how the data is organized and expected to be sent - Use Case Document: example use cases for applying the data specification. - Data Dictionary Document: Terminology and definitions for the data elements
The present document is the Information Model Document.
This document seeks to define common international definitions of data concepts, and their relationship for parking operations and other related activities. These definitions have been drawn from several existing sources of information and existing specifications and standards, including:
Institute • Technical documentation drawn from the Dutch National Parking Register • Technical documentation supplied by the British Parking Institute • CEN DATEX II Standards, in the CEN 16157 series
The data concepts defined in this document are modelled using UML (Unified Modeling Language) in a form that substantively aligns with the modelling approach defined in Part 1 of the CEN DATEX 16157 series (EN 16157-1:2018). Adaptations to this approach are defined in Annex B.
