Real-time parking spots availabilty

This repository contains the source code for an interactive app that displays real-time utilization of free parking spots for 4 public parking lots in city of Wroclaw, Poland.

About

The app is built using R and Shiny web framework (with shinydashboard package), utilizing an excellent JavaScript library Higcharts and its R wrapper - highcharter package.

Data source

Publicly available data from Wroclaw Open Data repository, updated every 5-10 minutes. The data is fetched from a CSV file containing the following information:

• timestamp (Czas_Rejestracji)
• number of available parking spots (Liczba_Wolnych_Miejsc)
• number of vehicles entering the parking lot (Liczba_Poj_Wjezdzajacych)
• number of vehicels leaving the parking lot (Liczba_Poj_Wyjezdzajacych)
• name of the parking lot (Nazwa)

head(read.csv2("http://www.wroclaw.pl/open-data/opendata/its/parkingi/parkingi.csv"))
         Czas_Rejestracji Liczba_Wolnych_Miejsc Liczba_Poj_Wjezdzajacych Liczba_Poj_Wyjezdzajacych                 Nazwa
1 2016-11-03 00:00:00.020                   279                        1                         0             Nowy Targ
2 2016-11-03 00:00:01.383                   119                        0                         0     ul. sw. Antoniego
3 2016-11-03 00:00:01.943                   791                        0                         0 Parking Hala Stulecia
4 2016-11-03 00:05:00.017                   279                        0                         0             Nowy Targ
5 2016-11-03 00:05:01.190                   119                        0                         0     ul. sw. Antoniego
6 2016-11-03 00:05:01.427                   791                        0                         0 Parking Hala Stulecia

How to run the app

To run the app locally you should install required packages: shiny, shinydashboard, and highcharter in R, for example:

if (!require('shiny')) install.packages("shiny")

and use the function runGithub() with specified repository name under my username:

shiny::runGitHub("Parking", "holek10")

Once the app is loaded the dashboard is presented (Przeglad).
Click Dane to see data overview.

Licensing

The app is provided for free under GNU General Public License