Artificial intelligence is not omnipotent. Is smart parking difficult to solve urban parking problems?

According to data released by the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, as of the end of 2017, the number of motor vehicles in China reached 310 million, of which 217 million were cars. With the increase in the number of cars, the parking space gap has exceeded 50 million. Calculated based on a car owner’s annual parking expenditure of 3,000 yuan, the static market space for parking fees has reached approximately 651 billion yuan. It can be seen from this data that the urban parking gap problem caused by insufficient parking spaces has not affected the market development space of the urban parking industry.

With the development of my country's economy, the improvement of people's quality of life, and the rapid popularization of cars, people's demand for parking spaces is also growing. The supply of parking spaces cannot keep up with the rapid growth of car ownership, which not only troubles drivers' travel , also troubles city managers and restricts the development of cities. Driven by market demand, smart parking emerged as the times require.

The disadvantages of traditional parking are highlighted, and smart parking has become the future trend

Traditional parking methods are gradually being criticized by the market. Research shows that among all motor vehicles driving on city lanes, a motor vehicle looking for a parking space has five times the impact on traffic jams than a normal driving vehicle. In addition, the number of large parking lots in my country is gradually increasing. The increasing number of parking spaces means that car owners will spend more and more time looking for empty parking spaces. In addition, parking fees evasion and random parking in major domestic cities The phenomenon is relatively common and has been repeatedly banned, leading to disorder in the domestic parking market. The emergence of these problems shows that traditional parking methods can no longer meet people's daily parking needs. Against this background, the advantages of smart parking are gradually emerging.

First, it improves urban parking difficulties and alleviates urban traffic congestion. Use the smart parking app to improve services before vehicles enter, ensure that car owners are provided with relevant parking information, predict parking space information in advance, and speed up car owners to find parking spots. Smart parking realizes vehicle diversion by opening up parking lot information, effectively increasing parking space utilization, speeding up parking and finding a car, thereby saving a lot of social time and cost.

Secondly, improve the construction of credit system and enhance urban public safety. Smart parking can help the government establish a parking lot credit system through car owner portraits, parking trajectories, payment behaviors and LBS data, and integrate parking lot credit into the overall national credit system. Smart parking will achieve full-coverage recording of all license plates in the parking lot. In the event of a criminal case, the public security video surveillance network can be used to assist the public security department in identifying fake vehicles and detecting suspected cases. Smart parking can effectively curb parking fee evasion and crime by connecting to the Internet.

Third, promote the modern service industry and assist smart city planning. In the construction of smart cities, transportation is a key area. Smart parking can connect the upstream and downstream of the parking industry, providing shared bicycles, charging piles, electronic invoices, life services and other emerging services. The smart parking system integrates parking lot information management, inquiry, parking space reservation, payment, induction, facility sharing and other functions. It not only optimizes the parking management link, but also reduces the parking time cost of car owners. It is an ideal way to solve urban parking problems and build smart cities. development trend.

Smart parking is the best win-win choice for local governments, enterprises and the people. It is also an important way to optimize the allocation of social resources, enhance the city's image, promote industrial upgrading and promote the construction of ecologically civilized cities.

Hidden diseases are hard to eliminate, and smart parking faces development difficulties

The development of smart parking has become a consensus in major cities across the country. Building a new, efficient and transparent "Internet + artificial intelligence" parking service and supervision system to solve problems such as difficult parking and chaotic parking is the future development trend of the parking industry. But at present, although smart parking has gradually become the focus of the development of the parking industry, due to its late development time and imperfect market, the industry still faces many development problems.

First, smart parking-related APPs are independent and incompatible with each other. The Internet has optimized the allocation of resources that were originally blocked. Although the number of various parking APPs has mushroomed, their usage rate is not high. He Jingjun, editorial board member of Hong Kong's "World Chinese" magazine, pointed out: "The biggest and most prominent problem of the smart parking APP is system incompatibility, which leads to technical and capital barriers to information sharing, which violates the original intention of smart parking to revitalize the existing market and creates artificial Information silos." Due to mutual incompatibility, various smart parking APPs cover different parking lots and operate with their own characteristics, causing a lot of trouble for users. Some parking lots refuse to cooperate, and they also suffer a lot of criticism. Abandonment by car owner.

Second, smart parking is not “smart” in some cases. At a time when the contradiction between traffic supply and demand is becoming increasingly prominent, the use of intelligent means is the best way to divert parking. However, there are still problems that need to be solved in this regard in our country. For example: swipe card parking, Bluetooth parking, license plate recognition, etc., but they still have disadvantages. IC card swiping is inseparable from manual operation. Temporary vehicles must be manually confirmed before they can be released, which still relies heavily on people and cards. Although Bluetooth parking does not require parking to swipe the card, it saves a lot of time, but if there are multiple vehicles in the Bluetooth range Within, there will be misrecognition, causing congestion; license plate recognition is currently the most widely used parking lot management method, but occasionally it will cause trouble to car owners and parking lots due to problems such as recognition speed and light effects. It can be seen that there is still a long way to go before smart parking can achieve true "wisdom".

Third, there is a shortage of parking spaces, and there is a phenomenon of cars having nowhere to park in the city. The number of private cars has grown rapidly, causing streets in core urban areas to become overcrowded and the shortage of parking spaces to become increasingly serious. According to data from the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute, in the first half of 2017, the average parking space gap rate in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen was 76.3%. There were at least more than 2 million vehicles in each city without formal parking spaces, and the national parking space gap was as high as 50 million. indivual. At present, the average ratio of cars to parking spaces in my country's big cities is about 1:0.8, and in small and medium-sized cities is 1:0.5. Compared with the international standard, the ratio of motor vehicle ownership to the total number of parking spaces in cities is 1:1.2-1.4, which is quite a gap. big. This also shows that the shortage of parking spaces is still one of the main reasons why smart parking in my country is difficult to develop rapidly.

In general, various hidden dependencies not only reflect the imperfection of my country’s smart parking APP system, insufficient parking intelligence, shortage of parking spaces and other bottlenecks that restrict the development speed of the industry, but also illustrate the necessity and necessity of China’s development of smart parking. Urgency. Smart parking is the most important aspect of smart transportation. The most important thing at the moment is to find a breakthrough and solve the existing traffic pain points.

How can smart parking provide the right medicine for old illnesses that are difficult to treat?

Parking is a high-frequency + rigid event in life, and it is urgent to solve the problem of parking difficulties, and smart parking is the best solution to urban congestion. However, my country's current smart parking industry ecosystem is still in the initial stage of construction. Faced with various shortcomings in the immature smart parking market, what should be the future path of smart parking?

First, add new supply to solve the problem of resource asymmetry. According to the Ministry of Transport's "Intelligent Transportation Development Strategy for the Transportation Industry", the number of cars in my country will exceed 200 million in 2020. As the number of cars increases, there will be huge room for additional parking lots in our country in the future. Lei Yu, director of the Government Affairs Department of ETCP, a leading company in Beijing’s smart parking industry, said: “Focusing on the present and benefiting in the long term, increasing the supply of basic parking spaces, coordinating and optimizing various parking resources through smart parking to revitalize regional parking spaces, and solving the problem of resource asymmetry are the key to realizing the goal. An effective means of vehicle-road-parking space dynamic balance". At present, national and local governments at all levels have included parking in overall planning, bringing new opportunities to the development of the smart parking industry.

Secondly, existing stocks should be transformed to promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry. At present, most parking spaces are still managed in a simple and rough manner, which only meets the parking needs of a small group of people. There are still many car owners who have nowhere to park their cars. The transformation and upgrading of the management system of existing parking lots, the addition of parking lots and the innovation of industrial models will promote the expansion of the smart parking industry to a market size of 100 billion. Specific methods can be followed overseas to carry out intensive transformation of existing parking lots. For example, three-dimensional parking buildings can be built upwards to increase the volume, and three-dimensional parking garages can be tapped downwards. Hardware transformation can increase parking spaces per unit area, etc., and transform the existing parking lots. Pushing it to the schedule will alleviate the city’s parking pressure.

Finally, rely on the Internet to improve parking space utilization and parking speed to achieve efficient parking management. With the help of the Internet, smart parking can revitalize the stock of parking resources and fully allocate existing parking space resources by connecting parking space information in various parking lots. The parking lot information is opened up to realize vehicle diversion, and vehicles that need parking in busy parking lots are diverted to parking spaces in surrounding idle parking lots. In addition, installing intelligent parking equipment to achieve one-stop parking will also maximize the efficiency of parking management.

In general, my country's parking market has a large demand, and the smart parking industry has a lot of room for development. Although the corresponding mechanisms still need to be improved, smart parking has become an important breakthrough in the transportation field of smart cities. Solving parking difficulties is a process of continuous exploration and trial and error. Smart parking can only be achieved through close communication and cooperation among various industries, rationally standardizing the smart parking APP; symmetry of parking spaces and parking needs; and taking advantage of "Internet + Artificial Intelligence" to Only by constantly exploring the way forward, smart parking can solve the urban parking problem and achieve true "wisdom."