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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Accessibility
Transport adapté
Paratransit is a transport service arranged to meet travel needs that conventional fixed-route services may not accommodate adequately, often for eligible passengers with disabilities. Operating models and legal obligations vary, while curb access frequently requires predictable boarding locations, assistance time, and room for vehicle equipment.
Urban logistics
Consigne à colis
Parcel locker is a secure compartment system used for unattended parcel collection or delivery. Lockers can consolidate recipient access at one location, while placement must consider pedestrian routes, accessible controls, delivery replenishment, opening hours, and the trips users make to reach the collection point.
Measurement and evaluation
Accumulation du stationnement
Parking accumulation is the number of vehicles present in a defined parking area at a given time, often plotted across an observation period. It shows how the stock of parked vehicles changes as arrivals and departures occur, but needs a capacity reference to be interpreted as occupancy.
Parking
Audit Stationnement
A comprehensive assessment of parking supply, demand, turnover, occupancy, and operations to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
Parking and pricing
Quartier de réinvestissement des recettes de stationnement
Parking benefit district is an area where some parking revenue is directed toward specified local improvements under an adopted governance arrangement. It links parking management to visible public outcomes, while the eligible uses, financial transparency, decision process, and distribution of benefits depend on the jurisdiction and scheme.
Parking
Conseil en Stationnement
Professional advisory services focused on optimizing parking systems, policies, and operations for cities, campuses, and private destinations.
Parking
Gestion de la Demande de Stationnement
Strategies and policies designed to influence parking demand through pricing, incentives, regulations, and alternative transportation options.
Regulation and governance
Contrôle du stationnement
Parking enforcement is the process of checking compliance with parking rules and applying authorized responses to violations. It includes eligibility, location, duration, and payment checks, while fair operation depends on clear regulations, reliable evidence, consistent procedures, understandable notices, and a practical route for correcting errors or contesting decisions.
Parking
Système de Guidage au Stationnement
Digital signage and wayfinding systems that direct drivers to available parking spaces, reducing search time and traffic congestion.
Parking and pricing
Plafond réglementaire de stationnement
Parking maximum is a land-use rule limiting the amount of parking that a development may provide. It can align development with transport objectives, but its effect on curb pressure depends on complementary access, pricing, and mobility arrangements as well as how existing and new destinations are used.
Parking and pricing
Horodateur
Parking meter is a device used to collect or validate payment for parking at one or more spaces. Its presence supports payment administration but does not replace the underlying parking rules, and its interface, placement, operating status, and accessible approach influence whether users can comply in practice.
Parking and pricing
Minimum réglementaire de stationnement
Parking minimum is a land-use requirement that a development provide at least a specified amount of parking. It affects off-street supply and development choices, while any relationship to curb demand depends on local travel behavior, pricing, access rules, and the mix of destinations rather than the requirement alone.
Measurement and evaluation
Occupation du stationnement
Parking occupancy is the share of defined parking capacity occupied at a particular time or over a stated observation period. Its interpretation depends on the denominator and measurement method, including whether unavailable spaces, loading-only areas, and unauthorized occupations are included in the capacity and occupied counts.
Policy
Revenus du Stationnement
Income generated from parking operations including meter fees, permit sales, garage revenue, and citation fines.
Parking and pricing
Trafic de recherche de stationnement
Parking search traffic is vehicle movement undertaken to find an acceptable parking place. It depends on information, price, availability, driver preferences, and perceived walking distance, so observed circulation near a destination should not automatically be classified as parking search without a method for identifying the trip purpose.
Sensing and privacy
Capteur de stationnement
Parking sensor is a device or sensing system used to detect vehicle presence or other parking-related conditions. Sensors can support occupancy monitoring, but the measurement depends on installation, calibration, communication, and detection logic, and does not by itself establish vehicle eligibility, payment, or the purpose of a stop.
Parking
Inventaire des Places de Stationnement
A comprehensive count and mapping of all parking spaces within a defined area, including type, location, restrictions, and pricing.
Parking and pricing
Report de stationnement
Parking spillover is the displacement of parking demand from one location or regulated area into nearby streets or facilities. It can follow pricing, restrictions, development, or changes in access, and should be assessed through observed patterns rather than assumed from the presence of unfamiliar vehicles alone.
Parking and pricing
Durée maximale de stationnement
Parking time limit is the longest period a vehicle may remain under a particular parking rule. It can apply with or without payment and may include conditions on returning to the same area, so clear interpretation requires the full sign, regulation, and any local exceptions rather than only a duration number.
Measurement and evaluation
Rotation du stationnement
Parking turnover is the number of parking visits served by a space or area during a stated period. It describes the frequency of replacement rather than occupancy, so comparisons need consistent space definitions, observation duration, and treatment of visits that begin before or end after the survey.
Parking
Taux d’Utilisation du Stationnement
The percentage of available parking spaces occupied at a given time, a key metric for assessing parking efficiency and demand.
Street design
Placette sur stationnement
Parklet is a small public-space installation created by repurposing part of the curbside roadway, commonly former parking space. It provides room for sitting, planting, or social activity and needs a safe interface with traffic, accessible entry, clear responsibilities, and ongoing maintenance.
Loading and passenger access
Montée et descente des voyageurs
Passenger loading is the activity of passengers entering or leaving a vehicle at a stopping location. It includes the transfer process and any necessary assistance, while waiting for an absent passenger or remaining after boarding may be treated differently under the applicable local stopping and parking rules.
Parking and pricing
Stationnement avec ticket affiché
Pay-and-display parking is a parking payment arrangement in which the driver obtains evidence of payment and displays it in the vehicle as required by local rules. The arrangement relies on understandable instructions, usable payment equipment, and checks of the ticket’s time, location, and applicable parking conditions.
Parking and pricing
Stationnement par immatriculation
Pay-by-plate parking is a parking payment system that associates a paid session with a vehicle registration number rather than only a physical ticket or numbered space. It can support enforcement checks, while accurate plate entry, clear geographic validity, correction procedures, and privacy controls remain important operational requirements.
Measurement and evaluation
Demande de pointe
Peak demand is the highest level of demand observed or estimated within a defined location and time framework. For curb planning, the peak should specify activity and aggregation interval, because a short surge in passenger pick-up can be hidden inside an hourly average of otherwise moderate activity.
Policy
Facteur d’Heure de Pointe
A ratio comparing peak 15-minute traffic volume to the full hour, used to understand demand patterns and design capacity.
Accessibility
Cheminement piéton accessible
Pedestrian access route is a continuous portion of pedestrian infrastructure intended to provide accessible passage through the public right-of-way. It connects crossings, sidewalks, stops, and destinations, so each curb occupation must be assessed for its effect on the continuity and usability of the whole route.
Accessibility
Bande de cheminement libre
Pedestrian clear zone is the unobstructed portion of a sidewalk reserved for continuous pedestrian movement. It is distinct from frontage and furnishing space, and its practical width can change when doors open, people queue, vehicles overhang, or temporary curbside activities spill onto the walking route.
Regulation and governance
Zone piétonne
Pedestrian zone is a street or area where pedestrian use is prioritized and motor vehicle access is prohibited or limited under stated conditions. Essential servicing, deliveries, disability access, and emergency operations may require managed exceptions, with timing and route design supporting pedestrian movement rather than treating access as unrestricted parking.
Policy
Gestion Basée sur la Performance
An approach to parking and curb management that uses data and metrics to continuously optimize operations and achieve target outcomes.
Measurement and evaluation
Débit de personnes
Person throughput is the number of people moving through or served by a defined location during a stated period. It provides a people-based perspective on street performance, but measurement must distinguish through movement, boarding, alighting, and waiting so that transfers are not counted inconsistently across modes.
Loading and passenger access
Zone de prise en charge et de dépose
Pick-up/drop-off zone is a designated area for passengers to enter or leave vehicles, often abbreviated PUDO. Its operation depends on short, predictable stops and safe passenger connections, while rules may distinguish ordinary boarding, assisted transfers, waiting for a passenger, and parking without an active passenger movement.
Sensing and privacy
Évaluation des incidences sur la vie privée
Privacy impact assessment is a structured review of how a proposed data activity may affect people’s privacy and what measures can reduce those effects. Curb projects use such assessments to examine purposes, necessity, data flows, access, retention, and alternatives, with formal legal requirements depending on the jurisdiction and processing involved.
Street design
Piste cyclable séparée
Protected bike lane is a cycling facility physically separated from motor traffic by elements such as a curb, buffer, or parking lane. At loading areas and passenger stops, its protection requires explicit crossings and sightlines so that vehicles, passengers, and delivery workers can interact predictably.
Curb management
Emprise publique de voirie
Public right-of-way is the land or legal corridor reserved for public movement and associated street functions. It can include the roadway, sidewalks, verges, and infrastructure, although ownership, boundaries, permitted occupation, and management powers depend on the jurisdiction and the legal instruments governing the corridor.
Curb
Zones de Dépose/Reprise
Designated curbside areas for passenger pick-up and drop-off activities, commonly used by ride-hailing services and transit.