Parking guidance and information

A parking guidance system is a system that is intended to guide motorists using dynamic and static displays and information signs, to a free parking.

Many of the systems in use today are automatic, computer- based and make use of electronic displays that provide information about the available parking.

Purpose

Parking management systems are often located within large cities with lots of traffic. They should help to cope with the traffic and especially to avoid traffic jams in and around parking lots or parking garages. The individual parking management systems are always the traffic concept of a city adapted. Moreover, such systems are applied in specific situations that carry selective high Traffic. Examples include fairs, stadiums, shopping malls, etc.

Various motorway parking feature a parking guidance system, which is designed to help truck drivers find free parking spaces.

System Explanation

In parking garages or parking areas open spots are counted by the system counts the incoming and outgoing vehicles, and calculates the free places. The information about free and occupied parking spaces are then transmitted to a computer, which forwards it to the scoreboards.

Some parking guidance systems also offer the Internet to current surveys. The system allows the driver with better planning, thus avoiding unnecessary trips to occupied parking garages.

The parking guidance system

Since each parking guidance system will be adapted to the traffic flow and the desire of the cities, they differ in appearance and the structure of the individual display panels. As often as the driver at the entrance to a city is roughly illustrated, in which areas of the parking guidance system is structured; this is done with the help of information signs. At the next locations does he find this information again. On the way to the desired parking garage Motorists are mounted display boards just before intersections. In dynamic displays, the driver also gets information about the position of the free parking with the message " free", " busy" or even " closed".

The information about the free parking spaces, are more accurate the closer you get to a parking garage. This means, for example, the plots with a tolerance of / on the first display - 20 places displayed on the next with / - 10, to the exact number of available parking spaces will be displayed. Thus can the traffic and the single driver in his choice of parking garage influence.

Many car parks itself on Car park displays a directly -connected variable display panel. This is usually located directly at the entrance to the parking garage and often shows only " free", " busy" or "closed" to.