In late 2012, the City of Las Vegas passed an or­di­nance reg­u­lat­ing food trucks, which des­ig­nated cer­tain park­ing spaces that al­lows food trucks to op­er­ate more freely. The City also im­ple­mented a new elec­tronic park­ing me­ter sys­tem through­out down­town which could mon­i­tor the sched­ul­ing and en­force­ment of food truck park­ing.

We saw an op­por­tu­nity to pro­duce an ap­pli­ca­tion that ex­posed this real-time in­for­ma­tion to the broader pub­lic and pub­lish when food trucks ac­tu­ally ap­pear. This is the first food truck map ap­pli­ca­tion that re­lies on real-time truck lo­ca­tions, is mo­bile-friendly, and comes with an ad­min­is­tra­tion sys­tem that al­lows the City to man­age its sched­ules.

We launched this in August 2013 for an ini­tial six month pi­lot. The pro­gram was suc­cess­ful, with new phases and lo­ca­tions planned for the fu­ture.