Abstract: A parking system includes a vehicle database, a spot database, a parking event and reservation handler and a violation system. The vehicle database stores vehicle attribute(s). The spot database stores details and attributes of parking spots (on-street and off-street) of a regional authority. The details include a parking space identifier and attribute(s) corresponding to vehicle attribute(s). The spot database enables editing of the spot details and attributes by owners (e.g. the regional authority, lot and private owners) and of parking schemes of groups of spots by the regional authority. The handler receives parking requests which include a destination for a specified vehicle, determines parking spots which are available within a vicinity of a destination and which match the attribute(s) of the vehicle, and reserves a driver's selection of one of parking spots. The violation system receives violation reports from drivers reporting that the reserved parking spot is occupied.

Abstract: A method of optimizing the use of parking spots in a contiguous parking zone includes dividing a parking zone into a plurality of component parking slots; evaluating the size of a dynamic parking spot required by a specific vehicle having known parking spot size requirements, as a function of the component parking slots, and evaluating the availability in the parking zone of the dynamic parking spot.

Abstract: A system including: (a) a reservation server receiving reservation input, parking confirmation input and parking exit input from at least one user client device; and (b) a parking spot status database in communication with the server and configured to assign to each spot in the database a status selected from a group including at least available, reserved and occupied in accord with the inputs received by the server.

Abstract: A system including: (a) a database of individual on-street parking spots, and individual off-street parking spots, each of the individual parking spots associated with a unique identifier (UID) and location coordinates; and (b) an off street spot management module in communication one or more external client devices, adapted to receive parking rules from an external client device operated by an owner of each of the individual off-street parking spots.

Abstract: A method including: (a) transmitting a vehicle registration number from a parking reservation server to a vehicle registration database; (b) receiving vehicle dimensions at the parking reservation server in response to the transmitting; (c) calculating a parking spot size based on the vehicle dimensions; and (d) reserving an appropriately sized parking spot based on results of the calculating.

Abstract: A system including: (a) a database of individual on-street parking spots, and individual off-street parking spots, each of the individual parking spots associated with a unique identifier (UID) and location coordinates; and (b) an off street spot management module in communication one or more external client devices, adapted to receive parking rules from an external client device operated by an owner of each of the individual off-street parking spots.