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Underground Automated Car Parking System: The Key to Sustainable Urban Development

Feb 22, 2025

Urban space resources are also continuously tightened because of the rapid development of world cities in recent years, and urban traffic congestion and parking difficulties have become an important bottleneck of the sustainable development in cities. As urbanization pressures concrete, this extensive surface parking lot takes land resources of cities, burdening urban traffic pressure and ecological environment. In this regard, the fact g underground automated car parking system as a new Idea and innovative Solution; has been gradually paid attention by urban planner and decision makers. This paper will analyze the significance of underground automatic parking system to sustainable urban development from technical principle, economic benefit, environmental benefit and social benefit.

Technical Mechanism and Working Principle

The automatic underground parking system is a parking management system based on intelligent technology, mainly for the loading and unloading of vehicles through the vertical and horizontal movement of mechanical equipment, in order to achieve the maximum use of underground space. The specific system consists of a vertical lift, conveyor belt, spinning platform, and intelligent control system. Users only need to drive the car into the designated inlet, and the system can automatically transfer the car to the empty parking space, and through intelligent algorithms, optimize the parking path to shorten the waiting time.

The technical benefits of automatic parking systems relative to standard parking garages include the following:

Space-saving: The three-dimensional multi-layer design can park more vehicles in the same unit area.

Decreased human error: The control system is smart so it can run properly and do its job quickly based on the requirements of parking.

Adequate Security: The system has many edge protection, as vehicle position monitoring (monitoring a parked vehicle) and fire and explosion-proof facility.

Economic benefit analysis

The initial investment of the hkup conventional site work is higher, The mining work automation site in the long run has a certain amount of economic benefits.

Conservation of Land Resource: The land resource is limited and precious in urban region. This saves space and releases some parts of the ground for landscape layout, which greatly reduces the land cost for the developer.

Lower operating costs Automating systems frees up a lot of manual handling which improves labor costs. On the other hand, smart management can increase parking efficiency and reduce energy consumption.

That means it can make money through advertising, data services and other revenue sources in addition to parking fees.

For example, through efficient operation management, the return on investment of the underground automatic parking lot in the central area of the city is only 5-7 years, 30% less than the construction cost of the traditional parking lot.

Evaluation of Environmental Advantages

Introduction to automated underground parking technology The underground automated parking system is a leading technology with good benefits in environmental protection, consistent with the core concept of sustainable urban development.

Elimating Carbon Emission: Like traditional parking lots, the search for parking Spaces produces a lot of vehicle exhaust emissions. The automated system for easy parking reduces district Carbon FootPrint by limiting the distance traveled in the parking lot.

Improving the most urban of situations: Underground parking is neither the enemy of the garden city, nor the reason it cannot be, nor the factored surface parking facilities that create the urban landscape.

-makers, promote the use of green mobility, humanistic parking effective services convenient, help more people make appropriate public transportation planning, the new concept of the following with the car, alleviate the traffic congestion and environmental pollution.

Research shows that the air quality index (AQI) of places with underground automated parking systems can be improved by 10 to 15 percent, which makes portable urban green areas possible.

Discussion on social benefits

In addition to economic and environmental advantages of underground automated parking systems, their contribution is also positive in the context of global social development.

Decreased traffic congestion: With enough parking Spaces arrived in the framework, the undertakings searching for parking Spaces can be exited, which makes way utilize favourable.

It was designed for people in residential areas: The parking service can make it more convenient for residents to go out and travel, reduce social conflicts caused by parking problems, and improve the quality of life of residents.

Construction of smart city: The underground intelligent parking system, which is the implementation basis of intelligent transportation and can eventually share the data with other urban management system (intelligent traffic lights, public transportation scheduling system, etc.) to provide a scientific basis for the operation of urban management.

One prominent example that shares these results is an underground automated parking solution in a city’s central urban core, which was shown to achieve a 20% reduction in the traffic congestion index and significant improvements in residents’ satisfaction scores.

87Challenges & coping strategies

It not only has the advantages of saving land resources, realizing efficient management, and saving energy, but also has some problems that are not easy to promote and apply.

The interdisciplinary technical support is needed for system design and construction, such as mechanical engineering, automation control, information technology, etc., which results in a high technical threshold.

High initial cost: The initial cost of building is comparatively high which can be barrier for some towns.

While such systems can offer potential benefits, there is a conceptual barrier to their use in society, as many are poorly accepted.

Here are a few ways to address those challenges:

(b) Technology research and development: Strengthen policy support and capital input to facilitate innovation and breaking through in related fields.

Consensus PPP: the government and business share construction and operating costs by immediate donation of its capabilities.

Public awarenessBuild public awareness and acceptance of the system using pilot projects and education activities.

conclusion

As an innovative urban infrastructure, the underground automated parking system has advantages in saving land resources, reducing operating costs, decreasing environmental pollution and promoting the quality of social life. Despite its official execution being obstructed by technical and economic barriers, this system is expected to be an important enabler of sustainable urban development in the future, assisted by policy, technological innovation and public participation. In the background of high-speed urbanization around the world, underground automatic parking system is not only an efficient way to alleviate the parking difficulty, but also an effective measure to promote the construction of smart city and green development.

In the future, underground automated parking system will have a more wide spread promotion around the world and contribute to the construction of livable, efficient and sustainable city.

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