Submission + - Road-embedded sensors to help find street parking (taiwannews.com.tw)
Badlands writes: Clever new system to reduce âoecruisingâ to find street parking in several Taiwan cities:
From the secondary link (translated):
âoeIn order to continue to promote smart parking services, the Transportation Bureau has built 3,471 geomagnetic smart parking spaces on 122 parking-intensive road sections in Banqiao, Zhonghe, Yonghe and Xindian districts, which will be activated tomorrow, March 1, in addition to providing 24-hour real-time vacancy inquiry service to save peopleâ(TM)s time looking for parking spaces, it also provides a 5-minute free parking discount to increase the parking space turnover rate.
Transportation Secretary Zhong Mingshi said that the Transportation Bureau built geomagnetic smart parking grids in areas with high parking demand by using geomagnetic parking space detection technology to display real-time vacancy information of roadside parking on "New Taipei City Road" by using maps and colors to distinguish the vacancies. Through the "Side Parking Space Inquiry System" webpage and mobile "Easy Parking" and "Parking Loudong Public" apps, people can reduce the time they spend wandering around looking for parking spaces, making parking smarter and more convenient.â
Note that the system is linked to the existing fee-payment system in order to provide the 5-minute free use incentive. Basically incentivizing people to vacate a space within 5 minutes, further creating space.
Clarifying note: Taiwan does not have meters, but rather roving armies of maids on electric scooters that cruise their area with their smartphone and take a pic of your license plate and timestamp it, leaving a receipt under your wipers. This can be paid online, with QR code, or at any convenience store.
From the secondary link (translated):
âoeIn order to continue to promote smart parking services, the Transportation Bureau has built 3,471 geomagnetic smart parking spaces on 122 parking-intensive road sections in Banqiao, Zhonghe, Yonghe and Xindian districts, which will be activated tomorrow, March 1, in addition to providing 24-hour real-time vacancy inquiry service to save peopleâ(TM)s time looking for parking spaces, it also provides a 5-minute free parking discount to increase the parking space turnover rate.
Transportation Secretary Zhong Mingshi said that the Transportation Bureau built geomagnetic smart parking grids in areas with high parking demand by using geomagnetic parking space detection technology to display real-time vacancy information of roadside parking on "New Taipei City Road" by using maps and colors to distinguish the vacancies. Through the "Side Parking Space Inquiry System" webpage and mobile "Easy Parking" and "Parking Loudong Public" apps, people can reduce the time they spend wandering around looking for parking spaces, making parking smarter and more convenient.â
Note that the system is linked to the existing fee-payment system in order to provide the 5-minute free use incentive. Basically incentivizing people to vacate a space within 5 minutes, further creating space.
Clarifying note: Taiwan does not have meters, but rather roving armies of maids on electric scooters that cruise their area with their smartphone and take a pic of your license plate and timestamp it, leaving a receipt under your wipers. This can be paid online, with QR code, or at any convenience store.
