Incheon Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Chan-dae) is expanding its “Real-Time Parking Information Service” from public parking lots to private parking lots to make parking more convenient for its citizens and help alleviate traffic congestion in urban areas.

 After establishing its “Integrated Public Parking Information Plan” last year, Incheon has been providing integrated information on public parking lots across the city through the Incheon Traffic Information Center website since January this year. To expand the service to private parking lots, the city signed a business agreement with i PARKING Co., Ltd. (CEO Kim Dong-ho), a leading parking platform company in Korea, on August 21 to provide real-time parking information.

Under the agreement, i PARKING will link real-time parking availability from private parking facilities to the “Parking Information” service of the Incheon Traffic Information Center. The city will then provide this information to citizens through the Incheon Traffic Information Center’s website. It also plans to make the information available through platforms such as the Public Data Portal in the future, supporting its widespread use in the private sector, including the development of navigation apps.

The parking information service, which has so far focused on public parking lots, will now expand into the private sector through this agreement. As a result, the number of private parking lots offering real-time parking information is expected to continue increasing.

The city government also plans to expand the provision of real-time parking information to 20 public parking lots across the city in September.