Automated Car Parking Facilities in the Age of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles

Abstract

The automated car parking facilities can give an environmental-friendly and time-friendly solution for parking problems in busy European old town centers. But the the fear of the dependency of automation and operating failure of active actuating systems prevent its spreading over the world. Although the fear and the complexity of these systems, we may to apply these facilities to provide parking opportunities in city centrals. But is this demand changed by the newly appeared electrical and/or autonomous and/or connected vehicles, which can park themselves? Can they cooperate to create more favorable semi-automated facilities? How can we utilize the smart mobile devices to get a better parking experience? The article collects the solution options for smart cities to utilize the nowadays available automated car parking technologies.