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Parking Guidance – The New ITS Application Area...
It is common in Europe to see signs showing the availability of parking spaces, while in the USA it is equally common to see frustrated drivers driving around, fruitlessly looking for a parking space. However, this seems to be changing. Intelligent Devices is busy with systems at JFK Airport, and other airports and shopping malls internationally, to change this.
Key Characteristics of the Parking Information
- Parking Guidance must start a long way from the actual parking space/garage. Good Parking Guidance systems guide the driver from a long way out, making it easy and comfortable to select a suitable parking space.
- The information to make an appropriate decisions must be presented each time the driver has to make a decision. You cannot assume that he/she remembered from the previous time.
- Preferably the information should be presented twice. Once well before the decision point, and once at the decision point.
- The information should be presented in increasing detail, when appropriate. So, for example, when approaching the area the driver should be guided to which parking garage to use. When approaching the parking garage, the driver should be guided which floor to use. When approaching the floor, the driver should be guided to which aisle to use.
NTCIP Parking Guidance Displays controlled by IDI’s Intelligent Parking application, at OR Tambo (Johannesburg) International Airport
NTCIP and Parking
It has been interesting to see how NTCIP is contributing to the deployment of ITS in the area of Parking Guidance. JFK Airport, Denver metro parking tender, Johannesburg Airport and others have all called for the delivery of NTCIP conformant signs. Intelligent Devices, as the systems integrator for parking systems, has enthusiastically supported this standards-based deployment, as it results in more commercial choice for the customer, as well as faster and more reliable software delivery as there are no “custom” drivers to write and test, during the system deployment process.
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