# Paris Parking: Covered Parking Structures AI Agent Connect

> Paris Parking: Covered Parking Structures MCP provides direct access to the 125 covered parking garages in Paris via the city's open data platform. Your AI client can query specific garage details, filter by arrondissement, or pull city-wide capacity totals for standard, PMR, bicycle, and shared-mobility spaces.

## Overview
- **Category:** government-public-data
- **Price:** Free
- **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_qeF76MDxSBFVubckL1mV2iNqauLzcVGq03VLKpNA/ai-agent-connect
- **Tags:** paris, france, parking, covered-parkings, pmr, bicycles, shared-mobility, keyless

## Description

This MCP gives your AI client a direct line to the official Paris open data registry for covered parking structures. You can stop manually searching through city databases and instead ask your agent to find specific garages by name or filter them by their location in a specific arrondissement. The data includes everything from exact WGS84 coordinates and street addresses to specific capacity counts for standard cars, handicap-accessible (PMR) spots, bicycles, and carpooling. If you need to know the height limits for a specific vehicle or the operator's SIRET, the data is right there. It's a clean, structured way to pull real-world urban mobility data into your workflows without dealing with messy web scraping or manual data entry.

## Tools

### list_parking_garages
Lists all 125 covered parking structures in Paris. Each entry includes the name in uppercase, address, arrondissement, user type, and detailed capacity counts for various vehicle types.

### parking_capacity_overview
Provides a city-wide summary of all covered parking capacity. It returns total sums for standard, PMR, bicycle, and shared-mobility spaces.

### parking_garage_lookup
Finds specific parking structures by their name. You can also restrict the search to a single arrondissement.

### pmr_garages
Filters the list to show only structures that contain at least one accessible (PMR) parking space.

### bike_garages
Identifies parking structures that offer dedicated bicycle parking spaces.

### count_parking_garages
Returns a quick total count of available parking structures, with optional filters for arrondissement or user type.

### shared_mobility_garages
Retrieves a list of parking structures that include spaces for shared-mobility services.

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
How many PMR places does the 7th arrondissement offer?
```

**Response:** 
```
The 7th arrondissement offers a specific number of PMR places across its structures. I can check the pmr_garages tool for the 75107 area to get the exact counts.
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Which parking structures have bicycle places?
```

**Response:** 
```
I'll use the bike_garages tool to find all structures in Paris that provide bicycle parking.
```

**Prompt:** 
```
How many places does the city park in total, and how many are shared-mobility?
```

**Response:** 
```
I can use the parking_capacity_overview tool to get the total number of parking spaces and the specific count for shared-mobility spots.
```

## Capabilities

### Capacity Auditing
Your agent can sum up total parking availability across different vehicle categories.

### Location Filtering
The AI can isolate parking data to a specific Paris arrondissement.

### Accessibility Checks
Your agent can quickly identify garages with PMR or bicycle-specific infrastructure.

### Garage Identification
The AI can look up specific garage details using uppercase names like INVALIDES.

## Use Cases

### Accessibility Mapping
Identify all garages in a specific district that meet PMR requirements.

### Micro-mobility Planning
Locate parking structures that support bicycle or shared-mobility users.

### Fleet Routing
Check height limits and addresses for specific garages to plan vehicle access.

### City-wide Benchmarking
Compare the total number of parking spots in one arrondissement against another.

## Benefits

- Accesses official Paris open data without manual scraping.
- Provides exact coordinates and height limits for physical planning.
- Filters specifically for accessibility and shared-mobility needs.
- Returns structured integer counts for all vehicle types.

## How It Works

Connecting to this MCP gives your AI client immediate access to the Paris parking dataset.

1. Connect your MCP-compatible client to Vinkius.
2. Your agent accesses the Paris parking tools.
3. You ask a question about parking capacity or locations.
4. The MCP pulls the data from the Paris open data platform.
5. Your agent receives the structured results and answers your query.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Are these parking garages free?**
No, all 125 covered structures in this dataset are paid facilities.

**How is the garage name formatted?**
Names are stored in uppercase without accents, such as INVALIDES or FREMICOURT.

**Can I filter by specific vehicle types?**
Yes, you can filter for structures that specifically offer PMR, bicycle, or shared-mobility spaces.

**Does the data include electric vehicle charging info?**
No, the electric vehicle column is null across this dataset and is not exposed as a filter.

**How many structures are in the dataset?**
The dataset contains exactly 125 covered parking structures in Paris.

**Do I need an API key?**
No. opendata.paris.fr serves all city datasets anonymously over its Opendatasoft REST API. This MCP defines no credentials and needs nothing configured.

**Why are all the structures paid?**
The gratuit flag is 0 on every one of the 125 rows — the city currently has no free covered structure. Free surface parking (parkings de surface) is a separate dataset not covered by this MCP.

**What do the place-count columns mean?**
nb_places is the total, nb_pr the standard places, nb_pmr the handicap-accessible places, nb_velo the bicycle places, nb_autopartage the shared-mobility places and nb_covoit the carpool places. All are integers; the PMR, bike and shared-mobility tools apply a >= 1 filter on the relevant column.

**Does insee always mean a Paris arrondissement?**
Mostly: "75101".."75120" are the 20 arrondissements, but one structure sits in Saint-Denis ("94080"). Filter by the "751xx" codes when you only want Paris proper.