Smart Parking: A New Way Out to Control Traffic Congestion


We all have at least once in our life have experienced Bad traffic. A lot of time we face road congestion problems because of vehicles trying to find parking space, which in result worsens the situation and slowing down traffic flow even more. A study by IBM states, that approx. 30% traffic in a city is caused by drivers searching for a parking space.   
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Resulting in creating congestion around the parking lots, these parking searchers cause lot of wastage of time and fuel. But only creating new parking venues won’t solve the problem all alone in heavily populated cities. We need better planning and management for already existing parking lots.
Smart Parking is now seen as an intelligent solution in lessening traffic load by providing a smooth and convenient parking process for both drivers and parking operators.
Let Check out how Smart Parking solution will affect overall Traffic Flow system.
1.      Inept Parking Management
Smart parking is not about relying on creating new parking lots and an online reservation system but much more. Smart parking encapsulates the process of efficient management of parking spaces that are already existing. With smart parking system drivers would be able to locate Available parking space in the area, making it less likely for drivers to wander around for parking in certain area. In result of that less congestion and better traffic flow.
On other hand, it also controls casualties and accidents caused by these wandering cars. Stats show that about 1 out of 5 traffic accidents occur in or around parking areas. Major cause of these accidents is wandering drivers who accidentally collide with others and also risking lives of pedestrians.
2.     Easing Traffic Woes
A major benefit to bring a fully digitized parking system is that you don’t have to necessarily rely on many sources for a mere parking space. Smart parking technology combines existing traffic system components and gather real-time data to show stats and availability of a parking space in area and provide One touch payment system.
Smart parking technology combines sensors, traffic lights, sat nav system and smart payment system to provide general public a single platform and less dependencies on manual systems. It results in providing ultimate ease to drivers and avoiding useless wandering cars and directing them to other places where parking is available.
3.    Reduced commute time
Process of parking eventually gets faster when traffic congestion reduces. If sensor lights are installed on parking spaces, it would get easier for drivers to locate available parking space and get off the road quickly. Parking lots can also indicate number of parking’s available at entrance of parking lots and constantly updating data by using sensors, that way drivers can have latest stats and save commute time.
Read More: Dynamic Pricing and Parking Industry
Smart parking is a very vast concept, city management can go further by integrating sensors to a mobile application on cloud platform that provides real-time information about parking to mobile app users. Online payment system can also be integrated by which a driver can pay in advance for parking space and reserve their space before arrival, which also helps in reducing congestion on the roads.
In heavily populated metropolitan cities, driver spends close to 25 minutes finding a parking space, resulting in high fuel consumption—which is neither pocket-friendly nor environmentally-friendly. Smart parking will undoubtedly improve commutes by renovating parking and decrease traffic to make cities more civilized.

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