Do US cities map where robots stage and charge?
Mostly no. Robots stage and charge wherever a city happens to have parking and EV infrastructure, but almost no US city publishes the dataset a fleet actually needs. Of the corridors DEPLOY tracks, San Francisco is the only city with a machine-readable off-street parking inventory: 1,406 locations from SFMTA, verified.
Los Angeles publishes 57 city-owned lots from LADOT, also verified. Austin's off-street parking dataset exists but is not machine-queryable, and every other tracked corridor publishes nothing on off-street parking at all. And not one city, anywhere, publishes which of those lots or structures has a usable ground-floor electrical outlet. That is the single most under-served data point in robot infrastructure.
Every figure below is read from a DEPLOY corridor record and carries its basis. How we verify.
The staging-data gap, visualized
Bars show how many off-street parking locations each city publishes as a machine-readable dataset (the closest public proxy for where a delivery robot could stage and charge). A dataset that exists but is not machine-queryable counts as zero usable rows.
Cities publishing a parking-with-ground-floor-outlet dataset: 0
Zero of the tracked corridors publish the one dataset a robot fleet needs: which parking structures have a usable ground-floor electrical outlet. Every corridor record notes this field as not published. It is the single most under-served data point in robot infrastructure.
Bars render only from DEPLOY corridor records. Each carries its basis.
Why the outlet field is the one that matters
A delivery robot does not need to know where every EV charger in a metro is. It needs to know which nearby off-street lot has an outlet at ground level it can reach, overnight, without a human. That is a specific, boring, operational fact, and no US city publishes it. The parking inventories that do exist (San Francisco, Los Angeles) stop exactly one field short of the one a fleet would pay for.
What each corridor publishes
The Tier 3 charging and parking record for each tracked corridor, read from the corridor register. Each figure links its dataset and carries its basis.
Los Angeles(LA: West Side)
LA WESTSIDE TIER 3 PARKING STAGING: 57 city-owned parking lots in corridor bbox from LADOT Geohub (MapServer/2). Each has name, address, operator, spaces, hours, cost. Examples: Electric Ave & Santa Clara St (Venice, 66 spaces), Broadway St & Spring St (Chinatown, 176 spaces). THIS IS THE ROBOT STAGING CANDIDATE DATASET -- city-owned lots where robots could potentially stage/charge. Ground-floor outlet availability: NOT PUBLISHED in this dataset. Source: maps.lacity.org/lahub/rest/services/LADOT/MapServer/2.
LA Geohub -- City Owned Parking Lots (LADOT MapServer/2)LA WESTSIDE TIER 3 CHARGING: 1,183 EV charging stations in corridor bbox from LA Geohub (US DOE AFDC source). Examples: LADWP John Ferraro Building 111 N Hope St (338 L2 ports + 12 DCFC), LADWP Truesdale Center 11797 Truesdale St (57 L2 + 2 DCFC), LA Convention Center 1201 S Figueroa St (7 L2). Networks: Shell Recharge, Non-Networked (LADWP), ChargePoint. Total 1,253 alt-fuel stations (includes CNG). Source: services5.arcgis.com/7nsPwEMP38bSkCjy/arcgis/rest/services/Stations_Clip/FeatureServer, queried with corridor bbox + Fuel_Type=ELEC filter.
LA Geohub -- Charging Stations (US DOE AFDC) ArcGIS FeatureServerSan Francisco(SF Core)
SF CORE TIER 3 PARKING STAGING: 1,406 off-street parking locations (341 garages + 1,029 lots) from SFMTA (mizu-nf6z). 317 private garages, 24 SFMTA garages, 32 SFMTA lots. Each has address, capacity (regcap), owner, hours. THIS IS THE ROBOT STAGING DATASET -- identifies parking structures where robots could stage/charge. No EV charging field in dataset (gap). Ground-floor outlet availability: NOT PUBLISHED. Source: data.sfgov.org/mizu-nf6z.
SF DataSF -- SFMTA Off-Street Parking Locations (mizu-nf6z)SF CORE TIER 3 CHARGING: ~1,200 public EV charging stations in SF (per PlugShare + published reports). SF does not publish a standalone EV charging GIS dataset on DataSF (referenced in data inventory but not as downloadable dataset). AFDC API unavailable during acquisition. Networks: ChargePoint, EVgo, Shell Recharge. SF also has curbside EV charging pilot (EVgo curbside chargers). Parking-garage-outlet staging gap: UNDOCUMENTED -- no public dataset of parking garages with confirmed ground-floor electrical outlets for robot staging/charging. This is the most underserved Tier 3 gap.
PlugShare directory / AFDC network totals / SF DataSF data inventoryAustin(Austin)
AUSTIN TIER 3 PARKING STAGING: Off-street parking dataset confirmed at data.austintexas.gov/nura-qkf6 -- 'Geographic location of off-street parking locations in downtown Austin, including surface lots and garages.' Dataset exists but API returns 'non-tabular table' error -- spatial-only, not queryable via Socrata JSON/CSV. Ground-floor outlet availability: NOT PUBLISHED. Austin also has city-operated lot at I-35 ($2/hr, $7-8/night). Source: data.austintexas.gov/nura-qkf6.
Austin Open Data -- Off-Street Parking (nura-qkf6)AUSTIN TIER 3 CHARGING: 2,237 EV charging stations in Austin-Round Rock metro (per PlugShare, updated Jul 3 2026). 306 DC Fast Chargers. 146 free stations. Networks: ChargePoint, Tesla Supercharger, EVgo. Examples: City of Austin Permitting Center (10 ChargePoint), H-E-B 1801 E 51st St (4 ChargePoint), Circle K 12200 FM 969 (12 Supercharger). Parking-garage-outlet staging gap: UNDOCUMENTED.
PlugShare directory / ChargePoint locationsPhoenix(Phoenix)
PHOENIX TIER 3 CHARGING: 616 publicly accessible EV charging ports in Phoenix (per City of Phoenix official statistics). 246 of those on city-owned property. ADOT plan: 18 fast charging stations along I-10, I-8, I-40, I-17, I-19 ($76.5M federal investment). Parking-garage-outlet staging gap: UNDOCUMENTED.
City of Phoenix EV statistics / ADOT / PlugShareMiami(Miami)
MIAMI TIER 3 CHARGING: 4,573 EV charging stations in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro (per PlugShare, updated Jul 3 2026). Parking-garage-outlet staging gap: UNDOCUMENTED. Miami-Dade also has streetlight inventory on open data hub (confirmed but not yet queried for charging-relevant locations).
PlugShare directoryAtlanta(Atlanta)
ATLANTA TIER 3 CHARGING: 5,083 EV charging stations in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro (per PlugShare, updated Jul 3 2026). Georgia Power also operates network of stations statewide. Parking-garage-outlet staging gap: UNDOCUMENTED.
PlugShare directory / Georgia PowerChicago(Chicago)
CHICAGO TIER 3 CHARGING: 5,302 EV charging stations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro (per PlugShare, updated Jul 3 2026). Illinois has 8K+ stations statewide. Parking-garage-outlet staging gap: UNDOCUMENTED.
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Figures are read live from DEPLOY corridor records. SF's 1,406 off-street parking locations (SFMTA) and LA's 57 city-owned lots (LADOT) are verified at the source. Per-metro EV charging totals drawn from aggregators are labeled reported. The ground-floor-outlet field is undisclosed everywhere because no public dataset publishes it. How we verify
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