The leading trade publication for the parking industry, Parking Review, has published an in-depth article about Kerbside management company Grid Smarter Cities’ Kerb® loading bay booking solution.

Kerb® is being trialled for 18 months on Walworth Road in the London Borough of Southwark, enabling kerbside loading bay restrictions to be easily understood and recreated on an app. This, for the first time, 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® platform works by letting delivery drivers book a slot in a loading bay. They simply 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 even 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 explains how Southwark has embraced the idea as part of its Streets for People strategy, which commits to deliver cleaner air and safer and quieter streets with less traffic and fewer accidents. It describes how Kerb® reduces congestion caused by freight deliveries, enabling transport operators to go a long way to delivering these aims. It also details how the solution deals with rogue drivers parking in bays when they have not booked, and how shops, drivers and elected officials have embraced it.

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.