İSPARK Digital Parking Network
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Live space counts for roughly 600 municipal car parks come from plate readers at the barrier, not sensors in the bays: capacity minus the cars counted in, published as an open feed.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Istanbul · 🚦 Traffic management guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
İSPARK, the parking company owned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) since 2005, runs the city's roughly 600 public car parks with a digital layer on top. Automatic plate-recognition (ANPR) controls entry and exit at enclosed lots, and the resulting occupancy is published as a real-time availability feed on İBB's open-data portal — feeding the official CepTrafik app and third-party parking finders. The İspark Mobil app (iOS/Android, from about 2020) lets drivers register a plate and card for automatic payment. Live availability is computed from plate-recognition counts against fixed capacity rather than per-space magnetic sensors.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “İSPARK Digital Parking Network” — Istanbul, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/istanbul-ispark-smart-parking/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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