Vertical Car Parking System: A Space-Saving Innovation for Modern Cities

With the acceleration of urbanization, the density of urban population is increasing, and the tension of land resources is increasing. With growing space efficiency requirements in urbanism today, the presence of large traditional surface parking lots — which take up lots of space — had always been a challenge. In this case, the Vertical Car Parking System (Vertical Car Parking System) as an energy saving and environmental protection parking solution guide gradually expose its world. Proposed to have train-steel structure car parking system for the three-dimensional efficiency can be a modern urban traffic management system for a side of the important way. Based on technical principle, benefit, application scenario and prospect of development, paper will focus on the important role of vertical parking system in urban space saving.

Vertical parking system working principle

Introduction The vertical parking system is a three-dimensional design base of the automatic parking equipment. Its premise is simple: Towers of cars piled on top of each other to take advantage of upper airspace. The system generally, comprises the steel frame, lifting platform, transmission device and intelligent control system.

Steel frame: Forms the backbone of the system; it bears the weight of the vehicle and maintains overall stability and safety.

Lifting platform: Through hydraulic or electric drive, lifting platform can be used to elevate the vehicle to the required layer for multi-layered parking.

Transfer device: The vehicle propulsion system used to move the vehicle from the entrance of the garage to the parking space or the parking space to the exit of the garage under no human control.

By making these sensors and computer control technology installed in the vehicle, the intelligent control system controls the vehicle that can monitor the position of the vehicle and the real-time state of the system and can optimize the parking process.

Vertical stack parking system is fully automatic operation, the user only need to park in the entrance platform, the following operation for the equipment for automatic completion. This is also an efficient design where it saves you both labour costs and increase the parking efficiency massively.

Disadvantages of Vertical Parking Systems

The vertical parking system has the advantages of space saving, efficiency improvement, environmental protection compared with the traditional ground parking lot.

Save space

The composition of the horizontal and vertical parking integrates a three-dimensional design, which not only reduces a large amount of land occupation but also fully expands the parking space from the plane to the vertical space. While a flat parking lot can hold only 10 cars, a vertical parking system occupying the same space can accommodate 30 cars or more. Their space-saving properties are crucial in urban centers where there’s not enough land.

Enables more efficient use of parking

It is fully automatic vertical parking, In which user is not required to search the space in parking lot systems automatically allocate the nearest space and park. Users only operate the intelligent terminal on the side of the car pickup, and the system will send the car out at the exit in the short time. This type of design drastically reduces parking and pickup time which results in an easier life for the consumer.

Environmental protection

Conventional parking lots also demand huge hardened area to be effective (circulate and handle rainwater), which hinders rainwater infiltration and increases the risk of urban waterlogging. Vertical arrangements occupy a small area, which means that the hardening of the ground is reduced, and it can better improve the urban ecological environment. Plus, due to the system and mainly because it'll be electric, the amount of cars are running down and the emissions of the satellite is greatly decreased.

High security

This vertical parking system can minimize the security risks of human operation through its intelligent monitoring and automatic operation. For example, the system works in such a way that it can sense the real-time position of the car in order to avoid crashes. All in all, the biodome concept definitely has something to offer for existing car owners, as the encasement design also greatly reduces the risks related to car theft or (damage to) cars arranged near each other.

Usage scenarioVertical Parking System Application Scenario

The main reason is that due to these apartment-style buildings, and the vertical parking system requires using the urban land resources a lot, there are many application scenarios. Situations where it is generally applied are:

City business center

Urban commercial centers usually show high traffic volume & high concentration of parking demand. In traffic, whether large parking space or little time parking, parking at peak demand, vertical parking system can relieve a large pressure, the use of space will be greatly improved.

Residential area

With an increasing number of private cars, many residential areas have a low supply of parking spaces. The evolution of dynamic property study system can support the open land-to-land park more parking Space and solve the problem of difficult parking for resident.

Public transport hubs

Subway stations, train stations, and other public transport hubs often require large parking spaces to accommodate transfer demands. Vertical parking systems are typically a great solution in areas where parking space is at a premium.

Scenic spots

On this tourist spots holiday season is good to visit, But this time, parking is a twist. For example, vertical parking systems can provide temporary parking options to enhance the visitor experience and can be deployed relatively quickly.

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With continuous upgrading of the technology, the vertical parking system would have a larger space to develop in the future. These are a few possible pathways:

Intelligent upgrade

More such systems in vertical parking will be integrated with the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence for smart parking and management in near future. For example, it uses big data analysis to predict parking demand, and dynamically allocates parking spaces.

Green energy application

One answer may be to try and introduce vertical parking systems to help further reduce it on the environment, however, we should not only focus on that but rather also combine it with green energy technologies — like solar and wind energy — to help become energy self-sufficient and reduce reliance on traditional energy sources.

Modular design

The new vertical parking system will use a modular design that will make it easier to install and maintain. This allows users to flexibly adjust the system scale from actual needs and thus reduce the initial investment cost.

And with its autonomous driving technology

With more and more advances in the autonomous driving technology, vertical parking systems can be utilized with the autonomous vehicles to enable fully automated parking and retrieval, leading to increased efficiency.

conclusion

Introduction of vertical parking system as a new parking mode based on three-dimensional design and intelligent management successfully addresses the parking difficulty issue in modern cities. It not only has important application value for future urban traffic management, but also has its basic characteristics of space saving, efficiency improvement and environmental protection combined are an important part of future urban traffic management. The technology will only continue to grow and, as it does, it will be rolled out in even more places with it being a powerful back-up for the sustainable development of modern cities.