The problem of parking
California is built around a "car culture," and L.A. is its epicenter. With poor mass transit, finding parking has never been more challenging, and the difficulty takes a real toll on the economic, environmental, and social life of the city. We've begun by tackling L.A.'s most urgent parking needs, and we'll soon expand to other cities.
Despite inroads from ride-share companies and the distant dream of self-driving cars, today's typical driver faces a parking environment that isn't going away anytime soon. This is driven by city governments' reliance on revenue from managing parking spaces and issuing parking violations. Further, city dwellers and unsuspecting visitors alike must navigate a confusing signage system that can include as many as seven separate postings about parking availability on a single street.
Did you know it takes an average of 12 minutes to find parking in L.A.? What would you do with 12 more minutes a day?
A single mistake interpreting needlessly confusing signs — or a meter that expires just 60 seconds too soon — can result in ticket fines of $69 to $109! For residents and visitors alike, the situation is oppressive and hard to contest. There's also the environmental cost to consider: think of the pollution each driver adds to the city, and how significantly CO2 emissions could be cut by reducing the time drivers spend searching for parking. In fact, 30% of street congestion is caused by drivers looking for a spot.
The City of L.A. earns $160 million a year from parking fines.
Parking ticket hot-spots in L.A.
There is a solution
The POLIS ASSIST mobile app solves these problems. With its extensive, exclusive street parking data, Polis is the only technology that can give you comprehensive street parking information in L.A.
POLIS ASSIST offers this exclusive data for free. Simply download the app, enter your parking parameters and destination, and go!
The app identifies all parking available according to your parameters and eliminates every other option, so you know exactly where to go. POLIS ASSIST deciphers those hugely complex signs and regulations and gives you your preferred parking options within the destination radius. With the guesswork gone, frustrated, aimless driving disappears too.
Polis also safeguards your park: you can check in at the start of a park, get alerted before your parking time expires, and be automatically checked out at the end — so you can avoid tickets. POLIS logs your park history, too, giving you *verification if you ever need it.
Making the urban experience more livable — that's what we're about!