Changsha Smart Shared Parking System

2018.12.13

SITE

　　Changsha, Hunan Province, China

OWNER/IMPLEMENTATION UNIT

Changsha Transportation Group

KEY WORDS

　　Intelligent transportation; parking; sharing

COMPLETION TIME

　　August 2018

CASE DESCRIPTION

The difficulty of parking in the city of Changsha has always a big headache for urban residents, and it is also a problem to be solved in the “one circle, two-parking lots, three-roads” construction project in Changsha.

Kaifu district will invest 200 million yuan this year to complete the construction of seventeen 15-minute living circles; invest 280 million yuan to build 25 public parking lots and parking facilities in the central city, and add 5,430 new parking spaces.

The first smart sharing system for parking space in Changsha was put into trial operation in Wangluyuan street in Kaifu district. The street very busy as it is adjacent to two major hospitals.

The community cooperated with Changsha Transportation Group to develop the first smart sharing system for parking space in Changsha. It integrated open parking lots on the ground into the “Xiangxing Tianxia” platform for unified management, and installed smart parking locks on each parking space. The drivers can follow the "Xiangxing Tianxia" WeChat official account and make parking space inquiries and reserve parking spaces. More than 3,000 private and public parking spaces will be available.

CRITICAL DATA

PROJECT-RELATED PARTIES

　　N/A

CURRENT SITUATION/PROGRESS

The sharing parking system was put into use in August 2018.

INNOVATION POINT

The most convenient part of the system is that the parking spaces are shared at different periods of time. The parking lots owners set the time that they want to share the spaces with others and can get payments through the system.