iPark4U
Demonstration project for in-car parking navigation
Because of the structural overload due to an increasing demand for parking availability, innovative solutions are required. The iPark4U demonstration project addresses this issue and searches for the pragmatic link between parking and technology. The broad scope of the project is to optimise the parking process in city environments, by means of the innovative and creative use of technology. At the same time, the goal is to give the driver a qualitative parking service.
In iPark4U a system was developed that, based on an on-board unit and smartphone with supporting software, via in-car navigation gives information on the number of available parking spaces in public parking garages. The system also provides routing to these parking spaces, and allows the driver to pay for the parking costs via his navigation system or cell phone.
As such, iPark4U becomes a system that combines navigation, parking, and payment as a whole.
The niche in which iPark4U settles itself and in which the project gives a technological innovation, is now found in providing a driver with in-car real-time qualitative dynamic parking information. The information refers to the number of available parking spaces in parking garages, in the vicinity of the driver's destination. There is also a coupling to a paying mechanism.
In this project, TML did, in cooperation with the VIM, the process validation and final reporting.
reports
period
2009
funded by
Vlaams Instituut voor Mobiliteit vzw (VIM)
partners
Geo Solutions, Mobile-For, Q-Park, SKIDATA, Fleetronic, Eurotronics, TeleAtlas, Oracle
contact
Sven Maerivoet
+32 16 31.77.33