“Smart parking”, is the city ready?

After dinner with friends, it took 20 minutes to grab a parking space. After the meal, I found that I had blocked another car in front of the car and contacted the owner to take another 20 minutes. This makes people feel sad and live. It is commonplace for people in big cities.

Recently, the “Second (2018) China Urban Static Traffic Forum” held in Guangzhou uploaded a set of data: At present, there are more than 50 million parking spaces in China, and the average ratio of cars to parking spaces in large cities is about 1: 0.8, small and medium-sized cities are about 1:0.5, far lower than the developed country's 1:1.3.

With the explosive growth of China's motor vehicle ownership, parking difficulties have become a major pain point for urban development, testing the wisdom of urban managers. At the forum, representatives from relevant government departments, industry associations and parking equipment companies from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities gathered to provide prescriptions for the cure of parking difficulties.

Smart parking needs to be included in urban planning

From a single solution to parking difficulties to coordinate the balance between parking and driving, static traffic and dynamic traffic, parking and charging

A few days ago, the reporter experienced the high efficiency of two smart parking lots in the first international business district of Dongguan, Guangdong: a parking lot with local “Dongguantong” bus card, UnionPay flash payment, and Alipay can all enter and exit at the entrance and exit “second brush”. The other is in the underground garage next to the parking space can be WeChat scan code payment, the entrance and exit to achieve a free card, zero time.

However, the reporter still spent nearly 20 minutes on parking. The reason is simple: there are fewer cars and one is hard to find. It is understood that although the traffic jam problem in Dongguan is becoming more and more serious, the enthusiasm of the citizens to purchase cars is still not reduced. The average annual growth rate of cars is 19%, and the number of cars for thousands of people is 273.

The difficulty of parking in Dongguan is a microcosm of domestic cities. The speed at which cars enter the family is far beyond the expectations of government departments, resulting in serious shortage of urban parking space planning and construction. "According to the Ministry of Public Security Traffic Management Bureau said that as of the end of June 2017, car ownership in the country amounted to 205 million, ranking second in the world, after the United States, where 23 cities ownership over 2 million, 49 cities tenure The quantity exceeds 1 million. The development of China's parking industry is late, and the parking space is far lower than the actual demand.” In the China Urban Static Traffic Forum, Zhou Yi, former member of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference, revealed.

How is the difficulty of parking in the city? Wang Jie, director of the Static Traffic Planning and Design Institute of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning Institute, gave a set of data: At present, the number of drivers in China exceeds 385 million, the annual growth rate of electric vehicles is 30%, and there are 800,000 parking lots in the country. There are 30 million off-street parking spaces and 3 million off-street parking spaces. There are still 50 million parking spaces in China in the future. “There is a contradiction in parking difficulties. The average gap in the city is now greater than 50%, and the parking utilization rate is less than 50%.” Wang Jie said.

Smart parking is seen by experts as a way to alleviate the difficulty of parking. "Using smart parking technology can reduce traffic congestion by 30%, reduce traffic flow by 12% to 15%, and shorten the search time by 6 minutes to 14 minutes, enabling the government, enterprises and the public to achieve a win-win situation." Wang Jie said.

However, the current development volume of smart parking is just a drop in the bucket compared to demand. "Smart parking is divided into two aspects. First, the facilities and equipment in the parking lot are intelligent; second, the parking fee management is intelligent." Cheng Shidong, director of the Urban Transportation Research Office of the National Development and Reform Commission's Comprehensive Transportation Research Institute, said that from the national perspective, the road will be realized in 2017. There are more than 170 county-level and above areas with intelligent parking inside, and 1.46 million berths. The proportion of intelligentization is low, especially the proportion of automatic charging is lower.

Cheng Shidong believes that the current concentration of smart parking market is very low, and the road to scale and comprehensive development must be taken in the future. This is also the direction of national policy. The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Communications recently issued a document stating that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the construction of parking buildings, underground parking lots, and mechanical parking garages will be focused on transportation hubs, residential areas, commercial areas, hospitals, and tourist attractions. Parking facilities.

Experts call for it is time to incorporate smart parking into the overall urban planning. The idea of ​​urban construction should shift from a single solution to parking difficulties in the past to a coordinated balance between parking and driving, static traffic and dynamic traffic, and parking and charging. In static traffic planning, based on parking berth resource planning, comprehensive use of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, wireless communications, big data processing and other technologies to make urban parking systems aware and interconnected in communities, cities and even larger time and space. , analysis, forecasting, control and other capabilities to achieve accurate management and efficient use of parking resources.

Promote orderly development of the market

City managers start from the policy level, open up the city-wide industrial chain, and make the smart parking cake bigger and thicker, and be a good "cutting cake" person.

“The existence of demand has made China's parking industry have great potential for development. The adjustment of policy level has also become a booster for the outbreak of the parking market. The Chinese parking market is a blue ocean, including Internet companies such as Tencent, Ali, Baidu, etc. also entered this huge industry. In the middle, the smart parking industry is accelerating and upgrading, and the market of RMB 1 trillion is waiting to be tapped.” Zhou Yi said.

However, the "big cake" of smart parking is not easy to eat. Experts pointed out that on the one hand, although large enterprises and industrial capital want to do city-level services, the industry is relatively scattered and relatively small, which poses a great challenge to enterprises. On the other hand, the parking equipment industry has lower thresholds and less government intervention, making it a completely competitive market. "We predict that 90% of the enterprises in the parking equipment industry will be out of the market, and finally enter the era when the leftover is king." Liu Huibin, secretary general of the Parking Equipment Branch of China Construction Machinery Industry Association, said.

How to avoid waste of resources caused by excessive competition and promote the orderly development of the smart parking market? Experts believe that this requires urban managers to start from the policy level, open up the city-wide industrial chain, and make the smart parking cake bigger and thicker, and be a good "cutting cake".

“The government needs to establish better coordination mechanisms and incentives to promote the development of the parking industry.” Cheng Shidong said.

In terms of urban-level platform construction, Shenzhen, as one of the first pilot cities for the construction of national urban parking lots, has taken the first step ahead of other cities. A few months ago, Shenzhen issued the “Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Parking Facilities”, proposing to ease the contradiction between parking supply and demand and promote the development of the parking industry chain from the innovative modes of land use security, simplified approval, investment and financing mode, intelligentization and standard system. In 2020, it will take the lead in building the first urban-level smart parking system in China.

"We have overcome the traditional practice of the government's big package. The government is the main body of parking facilities construction and operation in the city. It adopts the PPP model and mainly serves the basic parking needs of the citizens through market behavior." Wang Chao, deputy director of the Urban Development Department of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission, introduced.

Shenzhen City must first solve the problem of overall coordination. Wang Chao pointed out that in the past, the parking market did not have a unified plan, no standards, and everyone built each other, resulting in the situation of fragmented resources. Now the Shenzhen Municipal Government is promoting the establishment of a parking industry alliance, introducing relevant industry standards, and driving enterprises to jointly develop markets and provide comprehensive solutions. The second problem to be solved is the efficiency issue. Shenzhen is aiming at the construction of a city-level smart parking cloud platform. It proposes that all kinds of parking facilities will be uniformly connected to the cloud platform through market, administrative and legal means to realize the comprehensive networking of parking information in the city. At the same time, relying on the cloud platform to accurately analyze the city's parking supply and demand situation and resource usage, and improve the formation mechanism of parking service charges.

Solving the problem of parking problems is still long

Need to further close communication and cooperation between the government, industry enterprises and communities, hospital associations, property associations and other users to jointly seek a more optimized solution

Cities that can come up with city-level smart parking solutions like Shenzhen are still rare. However, with the emergence of new technologies in the fields of intelligent three-dimensional public transport garages, parking and charging technology, and shared parking spaces in the past year, various new models have emerged in the integration of industrial chains, and more and more cities in China Initial attempts have been made to industrialize, with success and failure. At the forum, many leading companies in the industry shared examples of pilot projects with cities.

Parking speed is one of the keys to solving the problem of parking difficulties. Shenzhen Keli Heng Garage Equipment Co., Ltd. independently developed "intelligent multi-dimensional garage entrances round tower", highest in the world in terms of access speed and efficiency of the car. This achievement was put into commercial operation in Bao'an District, Shenzhen as early as 2009. At present, it has taken root in many cities such as Shenzhen, Foshan, Xiamen, Tianjin, Zhuzhou, Tongling, Chongqing and Ankang.

To achieve smart parking at the city level, platforms and models are essential. Guangdong CRRC Think Tank Group focuses on urban parking + charging integration, and has established an open platform of “Zhongqi Zhiyun”, hoping to access many parking and charging industry chain equipment vendors, serving communities in the city and more and more The Zhiguan Community realizes full automation of vehicle management. Guangzhou Weijing Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to building a cellular charging operation service platform, which is committed to freely connect different brands of operators and partners, allowing parking owners, charging pile companies, management companies, automobile companies and even Enterprises doing auto finance all achieve symbiotic win-win in the same ecology.

"The road to the future, we put forward the city's overall solution, summed up: the overall integration, dynamic and static, upper and lower, industrial integration." Liu Huibin said. It is still a long way to eradicate the city's parking difficulties. Experts believe that this will be a process of continuous exploration and continuous trial and error. It requires the government, industry enterprises and communities, hospital associations, property associations and other users to further close and cooperate and seek together. A more optimized solution.