202 terms in English and French explaining street-edge uses, rules and data. 165 linked term pages include a definition, a practical explanation and sources.
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Urban logistics
Vélo cargo
Cargo bike is a cycle designed to carry goods, equipment, or passengers beyond the capacity of a conventional bicycle. In delivery operations, cargo bikes need suitable loading, parking, and route connections, with performance depending on payload, dimensions, assistance type, trip pattern, and the receiving environment.
Urban logistics
Aire de livraison pour vélos cargo
Cargo bike loading zone is a designated place where cargo cycles can stop for goods handling without obstructing pedestrian or cycling routes. Its design should accommodate the actual cycles, stabilization needs, access direction, and transfer path, while the legal designation explains whether other vehicles or activities may also use the area.
Data and standards
API Curbs de CDS
CDS Curbs API is the part of the Curb Data Specification used to describe curb locations and the policies governing their use. It provides a shared structure for publishing zones and regulations, allowing applications to interpret who may use a location, when, for which activities, and under what conditions.
Data and standards
API Events de CDS
CDS Events API is the part of the Curb Data Specification used to exchange observations about activity associated with curb locations. Events can originate from different operational systems, so their interpretation requires documented event types, timing, location references, and the limits of what the originating observation can establish.
Data and standards
API Metrics de CDS
CDS Metrics API is the part of the Curb Data Specification used to exchange curb-use sessions and aggregate measures with common definitions. It supports interpretation of activity over time, but comparisons still require compatible zone boundaries, reporting intervals, data coverage, and the chosen version’s calculation rules and fields.
Curbside electrification
Opérateur de points de recharge
Charge point operator is the organization responsible for operating charging infrastructure under its service arrangements. Its role can include equipment monitoring, maintenance, access, and transaction handling, while ownership, electricity supply, parking management, and customer services may belong to different organizations and should be assigned explicitly in the operating contract.
Curbside electrification
Gestion des câbles de recharge
Charging cable management is the arrangement and handling of charging cables so that vehicles can connect without creating avoidable hazards or blocking access. Curbside design considers cable reach, storage, wear, connector weight, pedestrian continuity, and the positions of vehicle inlets under realistic parking conditions rather than an idealized demonstration.
Curbside electrification
Connecteur de recharge
Charging connector is the physical interface used to connect a charging cable to a vehicle. Connector compatibility is separate from payment access and communication protocols, and public curbside provision should clearly identify supported interfaces, operating condition, and practical reach without assuming every electric vehicle can use every installed outlet.
Curbside electrification
Frais d’occupation après recharge
Charging idle fee is a charge applied under stated conditions when a vehicle remains connected or occupies a charging position beyond an allowed period. It can encourage turnover, but the trigger, notification, grace period, exceptions, and relationship to ordinary parking charges should be clear before the user begins a session.
Curbside electrification
Gestion de la puissance de recharge
Charging load management is the coordination of charging power across equipment or time to respect electrical limits or operational objectives. It can distribute available capacity between vehicles, while user information should explain the possibility of reduced power and the difference between a connector’s rated capacity and the power actually supplied.
Curbside electrification
Session de recharge
Charging session is a defined interaction during which a vehicle is connected to or receives service from a charging system. Session start and end can differ from parking arrival and departure, so analysis should distinguish connection time, energy-transfer time, payment validity, and total occupation of the curbside bay.
EV
Rotation des Bornes de Recharge
The rate at which EV charging stations are vacated and reoccupied, important for maximizing charging infrastructure utilization.
Curbside electrification
Disponibilité opérationnelle de recharge
Charging uptime is the proportion of a defined period during which charging equipment meets specified operational criteria. Its meaning depends on the unit measured, excluded downtime, and required functions, so an energized station should not automatically count as usable if payment, connectors, communications, or safe access are unavailable.
Loading and passenger access
Chargement commercial
Commercial loading is the transfer of goods or equipment associated with business activity between a vehicle and a destination. Curb rules may define commercial eligibility by activity, vehicle class, permit, or another criterion, so a branded vehicle alone does not establish permission to occupy a loading zone.
Loading and passenger access
Aire de livraison commerciale
Commercial loading zone is a curb area reserved under local rules for business-related goods loading and unloading. It protects access for deliveries and servicing during stated periods, with eligibility and maximum duration defined by the authority rather than inferred solely from a vehicle’s appearance or size.
Policy
Rues Complètes
A transportation policy approach ensuring streets are designed to enable safe access for all users including pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, and transit riders.
Measurement and evaluation
Taux de conformité
Compliance rate is the proportion of observed actions or sessions that meet specified rules during a defined period. Curb compliance can concern eligibility, payment, duration, or stopping location, and each dimension needs a clear denominator rather than a single percentage that conceals different types of violations.
Sensing and privacy
Vision par ordinateur
Computer vision is the automated interpretation of visual information from images or video. Curb systems may classify vehicles or estimate occupation, while lighting, occlusion, camera angle, training data, and privacy controls influence reliability; a classification output should be distinguished from a verified account of the observed activity.
Regulation and governance
Tarification de congestion
Congestion pricing is the use of road-user charges to influence travel demand in congested locations or periods. It can change arrival patterns and access choices around curb areas, but differs from a parking charge because it generally concerns use of a road network, area, or crossing rather than vehicle storage.
Logistics
Centre de Consolidation
A facility where goods from multiple carriers are combined for more efficient last-mile delivery, reducing the number of delivery vehicles in urban areas.
Infrastructure
Curb is the physical edge separating a roadway from its adjoining sidewalk or verge. In curb management, the word also describes the wider street-edge interface where parking, loading, transit access, drainage, and pedestrian activities compete for limited public space and safe connections.
Curb
Accès au curb
The ability of vehicles, pedestrians, and goods to reach and use curbside space for various purposes including parking, loading, and transit.
Policy
Redevance d’Accès au curb
A charge levied on commercial users of curb space, such as delivery vehicles or ride-hailing services, to fund curb management programs.
Curb management
Affectation du curb
Curb allocation is the assignment of street-edge space to particular activities, users, or time periods. It translates transport and public-space priorities into designated areas for functions such as loading, parking, transit, cycling, or public seating, with explicit decisions about which activities receive access.
Curb management
Audit du curb
Curb audit is a systematic review of street-edge conditions, regulations, and performance against defined objectives. It combines document checks and field observations to identify inconsistent rules, missing infrastructure, access barriers, or operational conflicts, with findings tied to locations and an explicit observation period.
Measurement and evaluation
Disponibilité du curb
Curb availability is the amount of legally usable curb capacity accessible to a specified user at a stated time. Physical vacancy is only one condition: a space can be empty yet unavailable because of restrictions, reservations, dimensions, accessibility requirements, or a temporary closure affecting the intended activity.
Street design
Bateau d’accès
Curb cut is a lowered or interrupted section of curb that permits movement between the roadway and adjoining land. It often serves a driveway, and its presence can affect parking eligibility, pedestrian continuity, drainage, and conflict between turning vehicles and people using the sidewalk.
Data and standards
Spécification des données du curb (CDS)
Curb Data Specification (CDS) is an open standard maintained by the Open Mobility Foundation for exchanging curb locations, regulations, activity, and related metrics. Its APIs support consistent communication between public agencies and other participants, with implementation scope determined by the functions and version an organization actually adopts.
Curb management
Demande d’accès au curb
Curb demand is the quantity and timing of requests to use street-edge space for particular activities. Demand includes trips that successfully obtain access and unmet needs, so observed occupancy alone cannot reveal how many users avoid an area, wait elsewhere, or stop in unauthorized locations.
Street design
Avancée de trottoir
Curb extension is a projection of the sidewalk into the adjacent roadway, often within a parking lane. It can shorten pedestrian crossing distance, improve visibility, and create space for waiting or planting, while requiring checks of drainage, vehicle turning paths, and cycling movements.
Curb management
Hiérarchie des usages du curb
Curb hierarchy is an explicit ordering of priorities used to decide between competing street-edge activities. A hierarchy helps an authority explain why some functions receive protected space or time, while allowing priorities to reflect street context, accessibility needs, transport objectives, and locally adopted policy.
Curb management
Inventaire du curb
Curb inventory is a structured record of street-edge assets, geometry, signs, and permitted uses. It establishes where curb space exists and what rules apply, providing a reference for planning, public information, maintenance, and later measurements of how people and vehicles actually use that space.
Policy
Voie du curb
The lane of traffic adjacent to the curb, often shared between parking, loading, transit, and through traffic depending on time and regulations.
Curb management
Gestion du curb
Curb management is the coordinated allocation and operation of street-edge space for people, goods, vehicles, and public activities. It connects regulations, physical design, pricing, and monitoring so that competing uses can be assessed against explicit public objectives rather than historical parking arrangements.
Regulation and governance
Autorisation d’usage du curb
Curb permit is an authorization to use a defined curb area or activity under specified conditions. Permits may concern loading, occupation, servicing, or access, and should state eligibility, location, effective period, duration, charges, and any exceptions without implying that authorization overrides unrelated safety or accessibility requirements.
Curb management
Expérimentation du curb
Curb pilot is a time-limited test of a street-edge management intervention with stated objectives and evaluation criteria. It allows an authority to examine practical effects before a broader decision, using defined boundaries, baseline observations, operating responsibilities, and a process for modifying or ending the intervention.
Parking and pricing
Tarification du curb
Curb pricing is the use of charges to govern access to street-edge space or activities. Prices may differ by location, duration, time, vehicle, or use, and their policy purpose should be explicit, with payment arrangements coordinated with legal restrictions, accessibility, and the allocation of limited capacity.
Accessibility
Abaissé de trottoir
Curb ramp is a sloped connection that allows people to move between a sidewalk and a roadway or other lower surface. At the curb, its usability depends on alignment, gradients, landing space, surface quality, and an unobstructed connection at both ends of the transition.
Curb management
Offre du curb
Curb supply is the street-edge capacity legally and physically available for specified uses during a stated period. Supply depends on dimensions, restrictions, accessibility, and temporary conditions, meaning a length of curb or a count of marked spaces does not by itself describe usable capacity.
Curb management
Politique d’usage du curb
Curb use policy is a published framework setting objectives, priorities, and responsibilities for managing street-edge space. It connects individual zone decisions to broader public outcomes and defines how requests, exceptions, operating rules, monitoring, and revisions should be considered by the organizations responsible for the street.
Measurement and evaluation
Utilisation du curb
Curb utilization is the degree to which a defined curb resource is used for specified activities during a stated period. Unlike a simple vehicle occupancy count, utilization may consider occupied length, time, eligible activity, or people and goods served, so the chosen definition must accompany every reported result.
Curb management
Zone du curb
Curb zone is a defined portion of street-edge space governed by a common set of access or use rules. A zone may contain marked spaces or operate as an unmarked area, and its permitted activities can vary by time, vehicle type, user eligibility, or payment conditions.
EV
Recharge sur le curb
EV charging stations installed in public curbside locations, providing charging access for residents without private parking.
Curbside electrification
Recharge électrique sur le curb
Curbside EV charging is electric-vehicle charging provided at parking locations along the street edge. It can serve users without private charging space, while implementation requires coordination of electrical supply, parking rules, pedestrian clearance, accessible use, equipment protection, maintenance, and the turnover of vehicles occupying the charging position.
Curb
Zone de Gestion du curb
A designated section of curb space with specific regulations governing permitted uses, time restrictions, and user priorities.
Regulation and governance
Signalisation du curb
Curbside signage is the signs and associated markings that communicate rules for using street-edge space. Effective signage describes the relevant activity, eligibility, time, direction, and exceptions in a legible arrangement, while consistency with the underlying regulation is necessary for both user understanding and reliable enforcement decisions.