Arrive empowers operators, decision-makers, and businesses to make smarter urban mobility choices, making travel easier and city life better for everyone. By working together with Swift Navigation, they have fundamentally redefined how municipalities acquire, understand, and manage their on-street parking infrastructure.
The solution leverages Swift Navigation’s globally available Skylark™ Precise Positioning Service to achieve the centimeter-level geolocation precision necessary to accurately map and continuously monitor parking regulations. This foundation of precision data is critical for guiding effective public policy and validating infrastructure investments. The successful integration of the Skylark Nx RTK correction service has not only optimized Arrive’s data pipeline but has also ensured they can collect data even in challenging urban environments with appropriate accuracy. Furthermore, the reliability of the real-time, high-quality data stream significantly reduces the need for extensive post-processing, ensuring Arrive can seamlessly scale its operations both domestically and internationally.
Arrive specializes in providing comprehensive parking intelligence and solutions tailored for municipalities worldwide. Arrive has solidified its strategic position as a critical infrastructure partner for smart city initiatives. The company addresses a fundamental challenge: most municipalities lack accurate, up-to-date data about their own parking infrastructure, making it difficult to design, implement, and legally validate effective parking policies and pricing strategies.
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Urban parking management presents several critical challenges for municipalities, making it difficult to implement effective, fair, and revenue-generating policies.
Cities often operate with incomplete or inaccurate information about their parking inventory. Relying on manual, human-based surveys is fundamentally inefficient and ineffective for modern policy-making.
In many regions, such as Germany, regulations mandate that municipalities must provide data-driven evidence of parking demand and saturation before they can legally convert free parking areas into paid zones. Without accurate and verifiable occupancy data, cities are blocked from implementing parking policies aimed to improve the parking pressure and make the city more livable.
Cities need reliable information to objectively evaluate the effects of urban planning decisions. Decisions that affect parking capacity must be backed by data, such as:
Arrive developed an innovative, two-phase system that combines state-of-the-art geolocation technology with visual data-capture techniques. This approach delivers the complete, high-accuracy parking intelligence cities need.
Arrive creates a foundational, comprehensive map of all parking regulations using specialized vehicles equipped with advanced geolocation technology. The technology stack includes:
Arrive selected Skylark Nx RTK (the highest-accuracy version of Skylark) based on a rigorous evaluation of various positioning solutions. The decision was driven by clear technical and operational differentiators essential for successfully running a global, high-precision mapping enterprise.
A major hurdle encountered with other GNSS correction services was the frequent presence of inconsistent or missing coverage in certain geographic areas, creating operational disruptions when expanding to new urban markets. Swift Navigation’s solution solved this key business challenge:
Unified Coverage: Skylark’s comprehensive global coverage, powered by its advanced atmospheric model and Virtual Reference Station (VRS) network, fundamentally eliminated this logistical friction.
Rapid Expansion: This technical reliability allows Arrive to expand its mapping operations to metropolitan areas without concerns over regional consistency or the availability of the critical correction signal, ensuring truly seamless operational scalability.
"The broad, unified coverage of Skylark eliminated the logistical challenge of dealing with coverage gaps that we consistently experienced with other providers. This is a critical factor for any mapping operation scaling globally."
— Clément Quinson, Lead Embedded Engineer Parking Insights, Arrive Group
The technical performance of Skylark Nx RTK directly translated into tangible operational efficiencies and cost savings in the field. The high reliability, rapid convergence time, and low latency of the RTK solution substantially reduced the frequency of costly “redrives” (having to re-map an area) due to poor data quality or positional errors. This resulted in reduced field data collection time and a significantly higher daily data yield.
Skylark provides a crucial economic advantage by allowing Arrive to pair a high-grade correction service with more affordable, high-volume hardware. By utilizing affordable multi-band RTK-capable receivers (e.g., the circa €100 u-blox F9R), Arrive can achieve centimeter-level performance that was historically confined to highly specialized, expensive (€20,000+) OEM GNSS systems. This represents a massive reduction in the CapEx required for precision mapping. Additionally, the subscription cost for Skylark was more than 45% cheaper than alternative correction services evaluated by Arrive.
The integrated Arrive and Skylark solution has completely changed how cities manage their parking infrastructure. Arrive’s system makes mapping much more affordable and easier to scale. Cities no longer need to spend large amounts of money sending human surveyors out to map parking spots, that manual survey expense is now gone. Instead, cities get fast, highly accurate data, leading to smarter, more informed decisions about urban planning and traffic.
The combination of high-accuracy mapping and continuous usage monitoring enables cities to make smarter decisions that improve urban life.
By partnering with Arrive, fleet operators help cities create a better urban environment by simply utilizing their existing assets – without impacting core operations.
Arrive’s integration of Swift’s technology allows them to achieve unmatched data quality and acquisition speed while dramatically reducing costs. By being highly scalable and providing broad coverage across Europe, this solution further expands Arrive’s competitive advantage and firmly establishes them as the global leader in urban parking intelligence.
The collaborative effort between Arrive and Swift Navigation provides a definitive proof point for a critical use case of precise positioning technology: the capacity to transform raw GPS signals into data for effective public policy and urban planning. By achieving reliable centimeter-level accuracy through Skylark, Arrive empowers municipalities to transition from subjective, anecdotal evidence to verifiable, data-driven decisions that substantially generate revenue, optimize traffic flow, and fundamentally enhance urban livability. The operational success of Skylark in this complex, large-scale mapping application underscores the indispensable role of reliable, globally available precision positioning services as a core technical enabler for the next generation of scalable smart city and mobility solutions.
Swift Navigation is a global technology company pioneering reliable, affordable high-accuracy satellite positioning to unlock autonomy and automation at scale. Its Skylark™ Precise Positioning Service improves the accuracy of standard Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS, from several meters to a few centimeters. Skylark powers more than 10 million vehicles and devices deployed by leading automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, robotics companies, and IoT system integrators. Learn more about how Swift is building the infrastructure to enable a safer and more productive future at swiftnav.com.
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform with the mission to ease movement in cities. Present in over 90 countries and more than 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter choices about urban travel. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimizing parking to data-driven traffic reduction measures, reprioritizing public space and refining public transport networks. For more information and news, visit arrive.com.
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