Parking guidance system

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Parking guidance system Vienna , with distance and direction information
Dynamic parking guidance system with numbering and availability display, Recklinghausen
Schematic representation
Parking display in Flensburg

A parking guidance system is a system that is intended to guide motorists to a free parking space with the help of dynamic and static display boards and information notices.

Many of the systems used today are automatic, computer-aided and use electronic displays that provide information about the available parking spaces.

purpose

Parking guidance systems can usually be found in large cities with a lot of traffic . They should help to cope with the traffic and in particular to avoid traffic jams in and around parking lots and multi-storey car parks . The individual parking guidance systems are always adapted to the traffic concept of a city. In addition, such systems are also used in specific situations that occasionally involve high traffic. Examples of this are trade fairs , stadiums , shopping centers , etc.

Various motorway parking spaces have a parking guidance system, which should help truck drivers to find free parking spaces.

System explanation

In multi-storey car parks or on parking lots, the free spaces are counted by the system counting the vehicles entering and leaving and calculating the free spaces. The information about free and occupied parking spaces is then transmitted to a computer, which forwards it to the display boards.

Some parking guidance systems also offer current overviews on the Internet. The system enables the driver to plan better and thus avoids unnecessary trips to occupied parking garages.

Dynamic parking guidance systems

Since each parking guidance system is adapted to the flow of traffic and the wishes of the cities, they differ in the appearance and structure of the individual display boards. When entering a city, the driver is often shown roughly the areas into which the parking guidance system is divided; this is done with the help of information boards. He will then find this information at the next locations. On the way to the desired parking garage, the driver will find display boards just before crossings. With dynamic displays, the driver also receives information about the location of the free parking spaces with the message "free", "occupied" or even "closed".

The information about the free parking spaces becomes more accurate the closer you get to a parking garage. This means, for example, that the first display shows the parking spaces with a tolerance of ± 20 spaces, and the next with ± 10, until the exact number of parking spaces still available is displayed. In this way, the traffic and the individual driver can be influenced when choosing his parking garage.

Many parking garages themselves have parking garage displays - a dynamic display panel that is switched on directly. This is usually located directly at the entrance to the parking garage and often only shows “free”, “occupied” or “closed”.

Static parking guidance systems

Static signage in Downpatrick

Parking guidance systems without variable displays only refer to the location, in some cases also to the capacity of parking spaces. Some cities also have a route that leads past several parking spaces. Such directions, sometimes called the parking route or parking ring , are simpler than dynamic parking guidance systems.

Web links

Commons : Parking guidance and information systems  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Pilot project for parking space management by telematics  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (PDF file; 30 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bis.bmvbs.de  
  2. ^ Research Society for Roads and Transport , Road Design Working Group: Recommendations for systems for stationary traffic . FGSV Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-937356-46-0 , p. 54 .
  3. ^ City of Wildeshausen: Parking space in the city of Wildeshausen. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  4. StadtZeitung GmbH & Co KG: In Mering, a park route makes finding a parking space easier. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .