Underground Automated Car Parking System: Maximizing Space in Crowded Cities

With the rapid development of urbanization in the world, cities have a growing population density, and traffic congestion and parking difficulties are becoming more and more prominent. The demands of modern cities, especially in metropolises with limited land use, cannot be accommodated by conventional land-based parking lots and 3D parking garages. The underground automatic parking system, as an innovative parking solution, provided a new idea for parking problems in urban areas from the perspective of intelligent technology and optimised design in space. This paper studies the value of application level of underground automatic parking system in the city crowded from technical principle, space utilization efficiency, economic benefit and social effect four aspects.

Overview of technical principle and system structure

The underground automatic parking system is an intelligent control-based parking facility, which solves the automatic access and management of vehicles at the core of the problem. The system primarily consists of the following components:

Automated vehicle access devices: Lifts, conveyor belts and rotating platforms convey vehicles from the entry point to the individual parking areas.

Intelligent control system: Through sensors, cameras and computer algorithms to monitor in real time the vehicle position, the status and operation of each system, to ensure safety and efficient operation.

The three-dimensional layout of multi-layer can fully utilize the underground space, and maximize the parking capacity.

UI TAMPER: Users can complete parking and picking up process by scanning code, swiping card or face recognition with a convenient operation terminal or mobile app.

"Distribos" describes the problem of multi-dimensional features, which is to reduce the human operation by means of a highly integrated and automated operation mode, so as to reduce management costs and improve the parking efficiency.

Space efficiency edge

The underground automatic parking system has great advantages in space utilization, mainly reflected in the following aspects:

Capacity improvement: Traditional ground occupation parking space, it generally can only single-layer parking, the underground automatic system through the three-dimensional design of multi-layer, can greatly increase the parking capacity of vertical stacking of parking Spaces. Take an example of an 1,000 square meter underground automated parking lot22A typical parking lot can only park 50 cars, but the same area can park more than 300 carsautomated parking technology23.

Space layout flexibility: Modular systems help to space out parking Spaces as per necessity and design and to adapt to different terrain and building structures.

More direct and out place: Conventional parking lot is a larger space reserved, through auto enter exit and turn on a parking ramp, it reduced access ground for area at the centralized access device, that enhances the farther playspace use of space.

Economic benefit analysis

The cost of constructing and operating underground automated parking systems is substantial, however, overall economic benefits are substantial in the long term:

Land Resource Conservation: In urban areas with limited land resources, automated underground parking systems not only save land acquisition costs, but also utilize underground space efficiently to help solve the problem of underground space and underground parking buildings.

Reduced operational costs: Automated systems do not require the need for manual management and therefore reduce labor costs. Furthermore, intelligent maintenance and management mode can reduce equipment fault rate and maintenance cost.

Diversified revenue source: In addition to parking fees, the system has also opened advertising, data services and other ways to increase revenue source.

The construction of underground automated parking systems not only drives the development of the relevant industrial chain, such as intelligent equipment manufacturing, software development and infrastructure construction, but also promotes economic growth.

Data source: Boosting up to October 2023

Automated parking systems to ensure underground parking, providing not only economic benefits but also positive social and environmental impact:

Reducing Traffic congestion: It reduced the number of vehicles on the road looking for parking Spaces thus minimizing the rate of traffic congestion.

A better image for the city: The development of modern parking spaces will work to beautify the city and improve the citizens' quality of life, as well as strengthen the city's ability to attract investment and tourism.

Decreasing environmental pollutants: Traditional parking lots take time for searching the parking Spaces, which in turn increases time spent idling and leads to exhaust emissions, automatic systems access the vehicle quickly, thus decreasing exhaust emissions as well as improving the air quality

Promote sustainable development: The underground automatic parking system construction of underground automatic parking system conforms to the concept of green urban development, to save land and reduce energy consumption, promote the sustainable development of urban.

The hurdles and opportunities before us

Despite the many advantages of underground automated parking systems, its promotion and application still faces the following challenges:

They can be understood as two situations: one is technical complexity, such as in open pit and underground design, the use of very specialized technical support, especially in geotechnical conditions unfavorable stability, stability of the system large-scale high dense area.

High initial investment: The construction and equipment procurement of the system requires a lot of capital investment, which may put a certain economic pressure on some cities or enterprises.

Release User Acceptance – some users may question the safety and reliability of automated systems and must have publicity and demonstration projects performed.

As technology continues to progress and costs gradually declines in a future phase, the underground automated parking system will also popular and applied to more cities. With the combination with the new technology such as the artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and the big data, will greatly improve the intelligent level of the system, and provide a wisdom solution for the comprehensive face of urban traffic management.

conclusion

Although the subway automated parking system is a new kind of urban infrastructure, it is also an advanced solution to the oppression of parking problems in cities that rationally use the underground space and intellectual management. This is an important means to promote the future development of the city and its environmental protection, which has advantages in space utilization efficiency, economic benefits, social impact and environmental benefits. The independent integration and overall of underground automated parking system will play an important role in the sustainable development of urban transportation due to its high degree of environmental quality(beyond traditional intelligent parking lot) and economy However, it is believed that under the situation of mature technology and increasing policy support, we will see underground automated parking system (not in crisis stage) widely used in the world to overcome the crisis in this stage; And the luxury demand of users and fund will also be a new motivation to reveal the path of sustainable development of urban transportation.