Analyzing Boat Parking Patterns

Post date: Nov 29, 2017 2:21:32 PM

Yesterday, we gathered data for nine boat parking spots created by a 2014 ordinance. On our first visit to each spot, we found signs denoting the parking spot and indicating that it was created by the ordinance in question. For each subsequent visit, we noted whether there was a boat parked at the spot, if the boat had been there when we last visited the spot, and whether it had a disco orario attached to it, which authorizes the boat to park at the spot by indicating how long the boat is allowed to remain there.

We visited each spot nine times over the course of the day, with roughly one half-hour between each visit. We noticed the following patterns over the course of our visits:

• • Some boats stayed in parking spots for longer than the one hour allotted to them, with one boat spending at least two and a half hours in one spot.

  • Several spots were vacant for long periods of time: one spot was found to be vacant during every visit between 12:47pm and 4:04pm, during which time we visited it a total of eight times.

  • None of the boats parked in the spots had the required disco orario attached to them.

These findings indicate that the one-hour boat parking spots created by the 2014 ordinance are either abused and used for longer than their designated use time, or seldom used at all.

Above: A boat parking spot.