Smart parking, smooth driving in Pengcheng

◎Text/Pictures: All-media reporter Yan Zishu and correspondent Liu Shengqu

According to the Municipal Urban Management Bureau's "Notice on Adjusting Some Road Parking Spaces and Free Time Periods", starting from August 10, in the core area, central area, and main urban area of Xuzhou City, the free parking time of road parking spaces will all be adjusted to 30 minutes. , if you use WeChat self-service payment, the free time can be extended to 40 minutes. It is understood that at the beginning of the establishment of parking spaces, the free parking time in the core area, central area and main urban area was 10 minutes. In 2016, in order to encourage citizens to park for short periods of time, the free parking time in the core area, central area and main urban area was adjusted to 10 minutes respectively. minutes, 20 minutes and 25 minutes; and starting from August 10 this year, the free parking time in the above three areas will be adjusted to 30 minutes.

The 30 minutes of free parking time can basically meet the needs of car owners for doing errands, eating and simple shopping nearby. The humanized change is a concrete manifestation of the Municipal Urban Management Bureau adhering to the concept of "serving the people, inviting the people to participate, and satisfying the people", making every effort to build the "People's Urban Management" star service brand, giving full play to the role of urban management functions, and actively changing the service style. .

Make vehicle parking sign optimization “outstanding”

Road parking spaces are the most direct and convenient parking option for citizens traveling. Ensuring that paid and free parking spaces are clear, orderly, and parking in the same direction is an important part of the work of the Seventh Brigade of the Municipal Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment. In order to facilitate parking for citizens, in 2016, the Seventh Brigade planned to set up 19,400 parking spaces on more than 110 roads in the city and set up more than 600 parking signs; this year, more than 6,000 new and re-zoned parking spaces were set up, and more than 6,000 parking spaces were set up. The original berths and new berths will be replaced or fee notice boards will be installed. These road parking spaces used to have 10 minutes of free parking time. After the cultural creation work started, the free parking time in the core area remained unchanged, and the free parking time in the central area and main urban area was extended to 20 minutes and 25 minutes respectively. 30 minutes, which greatly facilitates citizens’ temporary parking needs.

Citizens who drive frequently will find that next to the parking spaces, different colors are set on the parking notice boards according to the nature of the parking lot. Citizens can clearly understand the charging standards based on the colors. Talking about the reasons for the "outstanding" treatment of parking fee notice boards, Yang Kun, head of the Seventh Brigade, said that in the past, paid parking notice boards were all unified with blue background and white characters. It was not easy for citizens to distinguish the nature of the parking lot when parking. The standards are difficult to grasp. After all, the charging standards vary depending on the nature of the parking lot. "Parking lots with independent property rights implement market-adjusted prices. No matter how high or low the fees are, you only need to report to the competent department. The price may be very high. The price of the parking lot set by the government is relatively low and can be accepted by the public. Road parking spaces are The free night time period has played a big role in alleviating the city's parking problem."

In order to allow consumers to see the nature of the parking lot at a glance and understand the charging standards of the parking lot, the Seventh Brigade has carried out "outstanding" treatment of the city's parking fee public signs. The overall tone of the parking lot that implements market-adjusted pricing remains unchanged. The content in the box behind the "Remarks" column at the bottom is replaced by white text on a red background. What is announced is the charging document basis and the words "This parking lot implements market-adjusted charging standards"; government-priced parking The color of the frame behind the remarks on the toll notice board at the parking lot is changed to white text on a green background, and the content remains unchanged; the color of the road parking spaces appears in the charging period on the upper part of the parking notice board, and is changed to black text on a yellow background.

Yang Kun vividly introduced: "Red represents enthusiasm and tension. We designed the parking lot with market-adjusted prices to be treated in red to remind consumers to pay attention to the public charging standards and the charging price of this parking lot." Probably not cheap.”

Careful citizens will also notice that in addition to parking spaces with white solid lines, there are also parking spaces with yellow dotted lines on some roads, such as Hubei Road and University Road. Yang Kun said that these are also public parking spaces on the road. These parking spaces are set up on sections with particularly large traffic flow. In the past, they did not meet the conditions for planning. However, in order to solve the night parking problem of nearby residents, specific free parking spaces were set up. Yellow line berths during the time period are allowed to park except during peak periods. In other areas, according to normal management regulations, the charging time for road parking spaces is from 8 am to 8 pm. considering

Due to the actual demand for parking around the community, the Seventh Brigade has adjusted the charging time for road parking spaces around some communities to between 9 am and 6 pm. Don’t underestimate this little time change, it is actually very humane for car owners. care. Yang Kun said that this adjustment is mainly aimed at the situation where parking spaces are tight in some old communities and car owners park their cars on the roadside outside the community. At 6 p.m., some citizens have already driven home from get off work, while at 9 a.m., some citizens have just left for work. The setting of these two time points extends the free parking period at road parking spaces and actually solves the parking problem of some residents in old communities.

Systematically study parking difficulties as a subject

Xuzhou has been a battleground for military strategists and a gathering center for merchants since ancient times. With the rapid development of economy and society, the level of urban motorization continues to improve, and parking difficulties have become an important aspect of urban road traffic problems. According to statistics, by the end of 2016, the total number of motor vehicles in Xuzhou's urban area reached 420,000, with an average daily increase of more than 300 vehicles, and the gap in public parking spaces was approximately more than 60,000.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Urban Management Bureau, past management experience shows that urban traffic problems cannot be completely solved by relying only on one or a few departments. Changing the status quo requires the establishment of a scientific and powerful decision-making mechanism and the comprehensive implementation of planning and management. We will conduct systematic research on solving urban parking problems as an important topic and explore several basic measures to increase parking spaces in the emerging stage. For example, combined with the renovation project of old communities, through measures such as reducing the area of flower beds, building tree-array parking spaces, and setting up one-way circulation, 10,853 parking spaces were added to the 125 communities that have been renovated, which greatly alleviated the parking difficulty problem for residents in the communities. . Another example is to renovate the parking lots of hospitals, schools and other units, expand underground parking spaces, and encourage qualified units along the street to open internal parking lots or idle land to provide parking services during holidays.

The smooth implementation of the construction plan is inseparable from management and service. As early as 2015, in order to standardize the parking management of motor vehicles on both sides of the road, Xuzhou City took the lead in exploring and dividing roads into three grades: A, B, and C. The public security and traffic patrol department was responsible for the parking management tasks of Class A and B roads. The urban management department supervises parking issues on Class C roads and collects and uploads evidence for illegally parked vehicles. The road classification management work has been carried out for nearly two years. The back streets and alleys that used to have a serious problem of "random parking" have become orderly, and civilized parking has gradually become a consensus among car-owning citizens.

In order to ensure the smooth development of parking management work, in 2017, our city officially included the "Xuzhou Motor Vehicle Parking Management Regulations" as a legislative preparatory project. The system is guaranteed and the services are upgraded. Since last year, Xuzhou has upgraded the city's road parking charging management system, using Internet technology to improve the level of intelligent parking services. At the same time, we will strengthen the supervision and management of toll collectors, adopt a scoring system, standardize charging behavior, ensure that service personnel are uniformly dressed, charge fees with evidence, and win the satisfaction of citizens with high-quality services.

Actively build a “smart parking” system

After a month of trial operation, the Xuzhou Public Parking WeChat official account has been fully launched. Car owners can pay by themselves and drive out of their cars by paying attention to it, eliminating the trouble of waiting for the toll collector and questioning the charging standards and duration. . What's even more considerate is that when you press the pick-up button when you're ready to pick up the car, 10 minutes of free time will be reserved for the car owner. In other words, this move will increase the free parking time from 30 minutes to 40 minutes.

The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Urban Management Bureau stated that the use of WeChat public accounts is part of the urban smart parking system under construction. The urban smart parking system includes two aspects. One is to build mechanical three-dimensional parking equipment to significantly increase the number of parking spaces under the same parking area. The second is to integrate urban parking resources through the Internet software system, and build an intelligent traffic management platform through live collection of parking information and simultaneous updating of real-time data. While building a smart parking system, it is planned to start construction of 28 public parking facilities including underground mechanical parking lots and three-dimensional parking buildings in the main urban area of the city by 2020, and to add 6 new off-street public parking spaces within 3 years. Ten thousand, allowing residents to bid farewell to the era of "grabbing for parking spaces" when traveling. Through the intelligent transformation of the on-street parking system, parking data is aggregated and released in real time, improving public parking efficiency, improving parking lot operation efficiency, and alleviating traffic congestion. Build an urban parking management cloud platform to analyze and process parking data to solve parking problems; build a smart parking management system to realize parking space inquiry, parking space reservation, route navigation, self-service payment and other functions through mobile APP, WeChat public account, etc., and realize online Pay on.

As the times move forward and cities develop, parking problems will inevitably face more and more new challenges and problems. The Municipal Urban Management Bureau will actively explore, scientifically plan, and rush to implement, and explore a new path suitable for local development in parking management work, so that citizens can park smartly and travel smoothly in Pengcheng.