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The average city driver spends 6-14 minutes looking for a parking place, and in large cities, the time increases to 18-20 minutes. It is estimated that this time spent searching for a parking lot represents 30% of congestion on city streets. A Smart Parking System makes use of sensors or other technologies to determine the availability of parking lots in cities. This information can be shared with drivers, reducing the time spent looking for parking and thus reducing traffic congestion. Moreover, smart parking can be used to improve the usability of the parking place itself.
Parking fees are already part of the cities’ revenues. Implementing a Smart Parking System enables cities to control their traffic better, apply different tariffs according to different areas and hours, and use per-minute rates - instead of flat rates - thanks to new billing models.
(Shoup, 2007; Shoup, 2008; IBM, 2011)
Smart Parking systems and their functions can have several effects that can support the aims of the municipality or the users. The following diagram shows how the different aspects are intertwined.
Essential benefits of Smart Parking (Anke, Scholle, 2016, translated)
Problems to be solved?
| Bad air quality | Congestion | Underused parking space | Park offenders | Accidents/ collisions |
The main goal of a Smart Parking System is to help people find a free parking spot without driving around the city searching for one. Thereby, it decreases the traffic and simultaneously the congestion within the city. In addition, the solution achieves the benefits listed below. Whereas some benefits are likely to be fulfilled with a basic implementation of the solution, the fulfilment of the potential benefits depends on the functions implemented in a specific project.
Reducing GHG emissions
Reducing local air pollution
Improving traffic management
Improving parking
Improving life quality
Improved data accessibility
Enhanced data collection
products that control occupancy and length of stay in the parking lots
Products that inform the customer about free parking lots
products that enable to pay for the service
Products that enable booking a parking lot
Products that show the way to free parking lots
Products that park the customer’s car automatically
These sensors measure how many parking lots are used and unused. The created data can be used for other services like parking apps. Different variants of sensors for vehicle registration are available (overhead-sensors, sensors built in the floor or in the curbstones). Furthermore, the sensors can also be used to detect parking offenders. If the sensor also detects how long the car is parked, automatic parking tickets can be produced. It is also possible to use sensors at special parking lots (for e-charging or disabled people) and connect the information to an application. This helps these people to find the parking lots suited for their needs.
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MHP is testing its self-developed ParkingSpotter as part of the Living Lab innovation network in Ludwigsburg. The aim of the pilot project is to reduce the amount of traffic in the cul-de-sac, thus reducing the risk to pedestrians, reducing exhaust fumes and saving time for drivers.
Mobility
Milan’s shared e-mobility system includes: e-cars, e-bikes, e-logistics vehicles, smart parking, e-vehicle charging, and condominium e-car sharing.
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Culture, heritage, and a unique national drink. The Mexican town of Tequila has already captured the world’s attention. But now it’s about to become famous for a completely different reason: the town is going digital. By 2040, it doesn’t just want to be a smart town, it wants to be a Smart City.
One option is to use apps that automatically open barriers or doors to parking facilities. Another one is the implementation of sensors at the entrances that scan the license plate and connect it to the parking ticket.
Secure charging infrastructure for electric cars and bicycles, inverter, lockers for e-bike batteries and personal valuables could be provided. Also parking sensors combined with light/displays to show availability in parking garages can be implemented.
The application combines different functions like navigating to free parking lots, paying parking fees and open entrances.
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ICT
The Smart Taxi Pilot in the city of Barcelona makes it possilbe to provide taxi drivers and taxi clients with real time information about taxi availability at each taxi stand through a mobile app.
On this platform, private parking lots are offered for other people to use for parking by the owner.
Usually, there are displays or parking guidance signs at the street that lead into the city centre and to parking opportunities. With help of this information, drivers can decide where to find the nearest free parking lot.
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With the vision of transforming the parking policy from normative numbers, a more demand driven optimum solution was developed using ICT technologies to improve the user experience. The system is aimed at increasing the occupancy of parking lots.
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The city of Stockholm is piloting two semi-automatic systems for on-street parking surveillance.
Automated parking is a mechanical system which parks the cars itself (e.g. parks cars on multiple levels stacked vertically). Thereby, land usage can be minimised because less space is needed for ramps, etc.
As already described, sensors can detect if a parking lot is used. The same principle can be used for bicycles. Available and occupied parking spaces are identified, and digital signs show the available spaces to customers. Moreover, there are systems that automatically park bicycles.
Automated bike parking (GIKEN, 2019)
Costs differ a lot depending on the variant and number of equipped parking lots. As a reference, a trial package by T-systems with 15 sensors operates for two years and API interface and consultation for the installation costs are €8,998.
(T-Systems International GmbH, 2020)
Another cost example shows how much money has to be spent for a robotic parking system (Automated Parking). Here an automated parking system can even reduce costs, because more parking lots can be produced and commercialised in the same area.
Comparison of costs for a conventional garage and a robotic parking system (Robotic Parking, 2020)
Aside from the implementation and maintenance costs, there are also cost benefits through a potential cost reduction and a potential revenue increase.
Results of some Smart Parking installations (Anke & Scholle, 2016)
Financial potentials of Smart Parking (EY, 2017)
Costs depend on number of parking lots, type of parking, existing infrastructure for traffic, etc.
Cities like Barcelona, Birmingham, Braunschweig and Manchester have implemented pilot projects for smart parking. As shown in the table, the smart parking projects had recognizable positive effects in many cities.
Results of Sensor implementation in different cities (Anke, Scholle, 2016, translated)
Research has shown that there can be a reduction of 240g CO2 and 231 mg NOx per parking lot search.
Stakeholder Mapping (BABLE, 2021)
The market for Smart Parking is still in development. Many new companies are founded and new products are launched. The size of the global market is predicted to grow from $1.9 billion to $3.8 billion.
Size of global smart parking market in 2018 and 2023 in billion USD (statista, IoT Analytics, 2018)
Smart Parking offers various benefits for citizens as well as for the operator and the municipality. Depending on the details of the solution implemented, the main benefits can vary. The following graphic shows the operation of a Smart Parking System, including the matching benefits the solution offers.
Smart Parking process
There is no European regulation regarding smart parking, as it is usually the city's responsibility to regulate parking. For example, some cities like Zurich and Hamburg have limited the number of parking spaces in the city centre. Therefore, if a new parking place is built off-street, an on-street place should be eliminated. Cities also have regulations regarding parking time, tariffs, parking zones and user restrictions (Residents, disabled, etc.).
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Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and ENABLE, through the Smart Sandyford Programme, have partnered with Access Earth to prototype a ground-breaking, satellite classifier tool to map accessible assets within a built environment.
Mobility
In order to reduce the 'cruising' time of its citizens, the City of Ettelbruck deployed a technology which enables real-time monitoring and visualisation of the available parking spaces in the city.
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While the city of Barcelona offers an array of options for optimizing urban mobility, these solutions are scattered across multiple applications. This fragmentation prevents residents from having a centralized and comprehensive overview of real-time mobility solutions.
Mobility
It provides real-time information on the status of parking spaces for people with reduced mobility, loading and unloading areas and cab rank areas. It is expected to be the origin of the total sensorization of these spaces in the city.
Mobility
The Mobility stations in Mülheim provide commuters and residents of the busy district with a location, where they can easily find various alternative transport options. The aim is to encourage behavioral change from using cars towards more active modes of transport like walking and cycling.
Mobility
ICT
With the vision of transforming the parking policy from normative numbers, a more demand driven optimum solution was developed using ICT technologies to improve the user experience. The system is aimed at increasing the occupancy of parking lots.
Mobility
The Green Parking Index in Stockholm is designed to encourage alternative forms of transport, thus reducing the demand for the private parking places which must be provided when building new and renovating old housing in Stockholm.
Mobility
Milan’s shared e-mobility system includes: e-cars, e-bikes, e-logistics vehicles, smart parking, e-vehicle charging, and condominium e-car sharing.
Mobility
ICT
The Smart Taxi Pilot in the city of Barcelona makes it possilbe to provide taxi drivers and taxi clients with real time information about taxi availability at each taxi stand through a mobile app.
Mobility
ICT
MHP is testing its self-developed ParkingSpotter as part of the Living Lab innovation network in Ludwigsburg. The aim of the pilot project is to reduce the amount of traffic in the cul-de-sac, thus reducing the risk to pedestrians, reducing exhaust fumes and saving time for drivers.
Mobility
Energy
The Municipality of Madrid designed a smart parking management scheme, including giving priority to HOVs and clean vehicles, and specific parking regulations to encourage good and sustainable urban delivery operations.
Mobility
ICT
The city of Stockholm is piloting two semi-automatic systems for on-street parking surveillance.
Mobility
The main goal of the Digital Parking project is to make unused parking capacity available to the NaviPay application users. Our Digital Parking lots in Warsaw and Gdansk provide drivers and application users with innovative, fully-digital experiences, making parking more seamless and convenient.
Tourism
Mobility
NaviParking aims to facilitate work in the tourism sector, streamlining the movement of tourist buses, and reducing time lost for parking space search. By limiting unnecessary traffic, the solution improves traffic flow in the city for the benefit of drivers, residents, and tourists in Wroclaw.
Mobility
A pilot project, installing 13 sensors to generate a digital twin of the city with live data, to reduce parking problems.
Mobility
Air
There are three Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) of which the city centre is of most concern due to a higher number of pollution exceedances. A Strategic Car Parking Review was undertaken during 2017 and 2018 which essentially formed a baseline of car parking in the city centre.
Tourism
Mobility
ICT
Security
Culture, heritage, and a unique national drink. The Mexican town of Tequila has already captured the world’s attention. But now it’s about to become famous for a completely different reason: the town is going digital. By 2040, it doesn’t just want to be a smart town, it wants to be a Smart City.
Mobility
Mobility behaviour in densely populated cities needs a change towards a higher use of New Mobility. By presenting the full range of alternative mobility, this pilot project in Munich helped residents to change their daily mobility usage.
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