EstaR Digital — App-Based Regulated Parking
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Curitiba's URBS transit authority replaced paper parking cards with app-based digital payment for the city's 12,088 regulated on-street parking spaces, launched 16 March 2020. Drivers buy fractional 15-minute credits through one of eight URBS-accredited apps; Setran agents enforce electronically, checking a vehicle's plate against activated credits with a handheld geolocation device instead of a physical card.
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The digital layer is a payment-and-enforcement swap, not a sensor-occupancy system: no bay-level sensors detect whether a space is actually occupied, only whether a plate has paid credit — a lighter, cheaper approach than camera- or sensor-based smart-parking systems elsewhere in the atlas, but one that cannot measure real occupancy or turnover.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “EstaR Digital — App-Based Regulated Parking” — Curitiba, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/curitiba-estar-digital-parking/ (last verified 2026-08-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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