The creation of smart cities depends heavily on how well they manage their traffic and parking spaces. Smart parking permit management solutions enable such cities to significantly optimize the management of both.
What makes a smart city earn its intelligence-suggesting title? The gadgetry? The perpetual high-speed connectivity and communication? The governance? The intelligent ways in which welfare services are distributed? Probably. One of the many logical answers to that question is how well a city uses technology to improve three key aspects—livability, workability and sustainability. Vehicular movement and parking management across any smart city influence these parameters in a major way.
Smart parking-based permit management holds the key to improving parking management. Such systems use AI, computer vision, blockchain and IoT to optimize the management of parking space users and revenue collection.
Intelligent parking permit management in smart parking facilities makes smart cities smarter in the following ways:
Improved Revenue Collection
Smart permit management digitizes the process of users applying for parking permit registration as well as the modification and rejection of applications by parking facility officials. Digitizing this process means that users will be digitally checked in as their vehicle enters a smart parking facility and they can be automatically charged for the same without any needless paperwork. This ensures that there are no users that use the facility without paying, even for a few minutes during peak hours.
Apart from optimizing revenue collection, such AI-based systems also approve permits on the basis of a user’s residential proximity to a parking lot and the kind of vehicle they use (bigger, gas-guzzling vehicles need to travel lesser to improve environmental sustainability, and hence, they may be granted parking slots near the facility entrance).
Most importantly, smart permit management ensures that no parking space in a facility goes unused.
Sharper Traffic Management
Perfect utilization of all spaces in all parking lots within a smart city ultimately reduces the number of vehicles chugging along, with their owners looking for space to park. This results in reduced traffic and, as a result, easier vehicular management in bustling towns and cities. Improved traffic management is one of the major enhancers of workability in a smart city.
As you can see, something as simple as permit management has so many knock-on benefits in other areas of a smart city. Smart parking ultimately optimizes the functioning of smart cities in many more ways.
