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The parking API provides real-time parking data from both the City of Madison Parking Utility and the UW Transportation Service. In addition to lot availability, API consumers can include current or future special events for a given lot which aides in detecting potential changes to the lot's payment policy.
| Name | Value | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| expand | specialevents | No | If "expand=specialevents" is included as a query string parameter, any current or future special event(s) that apply to a given lot will be embedded in the lot payload as members of the specialEvents collection. |
{
"lots": [
{
"name": "Capitol Square North Garage",
"shortName": "north",
"totalSpots": 613,
"openSpots": 301,
"operatedBy": "city",
"webUrl": "https://www.cityofmadison.com/parkingUtility/garagesLots/facilities/capSquareNorth.cfm",
"address": {
"postalCode": "53703",
"city": "Madison",
"state": "WI",
"street": "218 East Mifflin Street"
},
"coordinates": {
"lat": 43.077627,
"lng": -89.38321499999999
},
"entrances": [
"100 North Butler Street",
"200 East Mifflin Street",
"100 North Webster Street"
]
},
{
"name": "University Bay Drive Ramp",
"shortName": "76",
"totalSpots": 1290,
"openSpots": 40,
"operatedBy": "uw",
"webUrl": "https://fpm-www1.fpm.wisc.edu/smomap/lot.aspx?lot=76",
"address": {
"postalCode": "53705",
"city": "Madison",
"state": "WI",
"street": "2501 University Bay Drive"
},
"coordinates": {
"lat": 43.0813065,
"lng": -89.4282504
},
"entrances": [ ]
},
...
]
}
{
"lots": [
{
"name": "Capitol Square North Garage",
"shortName": "north",
"totalSpots": 613,
"openSpots": 301,
"operatedBy": "city",
"webUrl": "https://www.cityofmadison.com/parkingUtility/garagesLots/facilities/capSquareNorth.cfm",
"address": {
"postalCode": "53703",
"city": "Madison",
"state": "WI",
"street": "218 East Mifflin Street"
},
"coordinates": {
"lat": 43.077627,
"lng": -89.38321499999999
},
"entrances": [
"100 North Butler Street",
"200 East Mifflin Street",
"100 North Webster Street"
],
"specialEvents":
[
{
"eventName": "Graduation - Madison East & Madsion LaFollette",
"eventVenue": "Kohl Center",
"webUrl": "https://www.cityofmadison.com/parkingUtility/calendar/index.cfm",
"eventDatetime": "2014-06-13T17:00:00",
"parkingStartDatetime": "2014-06-13T15:00:00",
"parkingEndDatetime": "2014-06-13T19:35:00"
}
]
},
{
"name": "University Bay Drive Ramp",
"shortName": "76",
"totalSpots": 1290,
"openSpots": 40,
"operatedBy": "uw",
"webUrl": "https://fpm-www1.fpm.wisc.edu/smomap/lot.aspx?lot=76",
"address": {
"postalCode": "53705",
"city": "Madison",
"state": "WI",
"street": "2501 University Bay Drive"
},
"coordinates": {
"lat": 43.0813065,
"lng": -89.4282504
},
"entrances": [ ],
"specialEvents": [
{
"eventName": "WIAA Boys Individual Tennis",
"eventVenue": null,
"webUrl": "https://transportation.wisc.edu/newsAndEvents/events.aspx",
"eventDatetime": "2014-06-05T12:00:00",
"parkingStartDatetime": null,
"parkingEndDatetime": null
},
{
"eventName": "WIAA Softball",
"eventVenue": null,
"webUrl": "https://transportation.wisc.edu/newsAndEvents/events.aspx",
"eventDatetime": "2014-06-12T07:00:00",
"parkingStartDatetime": null,
"parkingEndDatetime": null
}
]
},
...
]
}
Special event information and pricing policies vary between city and UW operated lots making it difficult to provide a consistent, intuitive return payload across the two operators. UW makes it worse by having a dizzying array of pricing policies depending on the event type. The API had to take the simplest approach possible and push the complexity down to the API consumer (highly unfortunate).
In addition to pricing complexity, UW does not provide parkingStartDatetime and parkingEndDatetime, which makes explicit determination of special event windows impossible. To mitigate the following steps were taken: