Life is not only the casual, there are poems and distant.
From primitive society, agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, and now to the ecological civilization, people’s pursuit of quality life has never stopped.
In terms of food and clothing, people have changed from having enough to wear warm clothes in the beginning to dressing appropriately and eating a balanced diet. In terms of living, it has changed from a place with a place to pursue style, spacious and bright, convenient transportation, etc. In terms of travel, people have changed more thoroughly, from car travel to the pursuit of driverless, intelligent parking.
Parking industry “Big body qi Deficiency”
The popularity of intelligent parking is also due to the existence of three defects in the traditional parking industry, which cannot meet people’s pursuit of high-quality parking.
First, the allocation of parking resources is unreasonable. On the one hand, the existing parking Spaces do not match the number of motor vehicles. The president of Tsinghua Tongheng Planning Institute has publicly stated to the media that there are more than 385 million drivers in China, but there are only 800,000 parking lots in the country, with 30 million off-road parking Spaces and 3 million in-road parking Spaces. In the future, there is a gap of 50-60 million parking Spaces.
On the other hand, the geographical and regional distribution of parking resources is not balanced. The proportion of vehicle ownership and total parking space in developed countries is between 1:1.2 and 1.4, while the average of China is about 1:0.6. The difference of parking resources between regions is also obvious. The proportion of parking resources in the first and second-tier cities is 1:0.8, while the proportion of parking resources in small and medium-sized cities is even lower, only 1:0.5. In addition, there is also a gap in parking resources between cities, suburbs and rural areas. The ratio of parking Spaces in rural areas and suburbs is basically higher than 1:1, while the ratio of parking Spaces in urban areas is lower than 1:1.
Second, the parking steps are cumbersome. Traditional parking lots can be divided into underground parking lots, above-ground open-air parking lots and road public parking lots. In addition to road public parking lots, the steps of car owners in other two kinds of parking lots are more complicated. These two kinds of parking lot due to its parking vehicles more, owners need to find their own parking space. In addition, the scenes of these parking lots are complicated and unfriendly to novice drivers. They need to be very cautious in looking for parking Spaces, which further increases the parking steps of car owners.
Third, the fees are high and not transparent enough. Parking lot charges are not transparent enough is not what new, price supervision and inspection and anti-monopoly system latest statistics results show that in all kinds of price complaints, the number of complaints about parking charges ranked first, its complaints are mainly high prices and fees are not transparent, arbitrary charges these two big problems.
Traditional parking lot adopts manual management mode, which needs to spend a lot of labor cost. In addition, the problem of manual management ability leads to the high vacancy rate of parking places, the income of parking lot decreases, and the price of traditional parking lot also rises immediately. With more and more cars, parking has become the primary problem, so the parking market has become an important business opportunity, some informal parking lots have emerged, so there has been a lot of parking fees are not transparent chaos.
Smart parking becomes industry’s “new favorite”
The commercial value of the parking industry is huge. China has a parking gap of 60 million, China Business Industry Research Institute predicts that the parking industry will be a huge market of ten trillion in the future, and other data show that the market size of intelligent parking in the first half of 2018 can break the scale of ten billion, the global intelligent parking industry scale of 26 billion DOLLARS, with a compound growth rate of 18%. Obviously, smart parking has become the new favorite of the parking industry, so what are the advantages of this “new favorite”?
First, it can improve the utilization rate of parking Spaces. According to the 2017 China Smart Parking Industry Big Data Report, more than 90% of cities in China have an empty parking rate higher than 50%, which further aggravates the problem of difficult parking when the overall number of parking Spaces is not enough. Smart parking can use cloud data to collect parking data in various regions and allocate parking Spaces reasonably with data, thus improving the utilization rate of parking Spaces. For example, in the parking lots cooperated with ETCP smart Parking platform, the empty rate is basically below 30%, which greatly improves the low utilization rate of parking Spaces caused by information asymmetry.
Secondly, it can improve parking efficiency. Statistics show that 30 percent of traffic congestion problems are caused by parking difficulties, and 48 percent of cars have to wait in line to get in and out of parking lots. Xinhua at baiyun airport in guangzhou test data also show that the traditional way of parking card, parking lot through three cars, only one minute and parking to complete all steps also need to line up half an hour, but after installed the ETCP intelligent parking system, only trial run test, license plate recognition can be a minutes by car, traffic efficiency three times as much. Parking efficiency will be further improved if both car owners and parking lots install a complete intelligent parking system.
Finally, fees are more transparent and affordable. Smart parking booking, parking duration and parking payment can be completed online, so that car owners can directly query the relevant parking information on the mobile APP, so as to avoid the chaos of parking lot “capricious” charges.
In addition, smart parking is basically self-managed by the system, eliminating most of the artificial management links, so it can save the labor cost of the parking lot, and the reduced parking empty rate will increase the income of the parking lot, and the parking fee of the owners will be more affordable.
Wisdom stops, but not wisdom
It has been four years since the concept of smart parking appeared in 2014. Although it has reached a market scale of ten billion yuan, which is far from the expected one trillion yuan, it has not been applied on a large scale. The coverage rate in the most developed regions in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, is only 7%. The reason why smart parking has not developed as fast as predicted is that smart parking is not smart enough.
Information silos still exist. Wisdom parking launch broke the parking location information asymmetry caused by the empty rate is high, but the wisdom parking this new value on the tuyere, there are a lot of wisdom parking companies, according to incomplete statistics, market management wisdom parking there are as many as 38 of the business enterprise, and fragmented among enterprises, there is not a public data sharing platform, The flow of information is difficult, and the phenomenon of information islands still exists.
The product cost is higher. Smart parking requires the use of wireless communication technology, mobile terminal technology, GPS positioning technology, GIS and other technologies, with a high degree of engineering integration, so the cost of smart parking is high. According to the data of China Reits.cn, considering the 20% increase of penetration rate in the next five years, the renovation cost of a single parking lot is about 100,000 yuan, and the renovation cost of the 800,000 parking lots in China is expected to be 16 billion yuan, which will be a large expense and become the biggest difficulty for the popularization of intelligent parking.
The problem of parking space shortage cannot be solved fundamentally. The development of intelligent parking is an inevitable choice for people to pursue the improvement of life quality, but we still need to solve the practical problem of insufficient parking space. Intelligent parking can only reduce the vacancy rate of parking Spaces and alleviate the problem of parking difficulties. According to the data released by Zhiyanzhi.com, the number of cars in China is expected to reach 280 million by 2020 and 360 million by 2025, while the demand for parking Spaces in 2017 is 270 million and in 2018 it is nearly 300 million. The annual compound growth rate will reach 11%, and the parking demand will reach 600 million in 2025, while the parking space is only 250 million at present. The gap will be further expanded with the 50% empty rate. Although smart parking can significantly reduce the empty rate, it is difficult to solve the problem of insufficient parking space from the original.
Where is the breakthrough of intelligent parking
Wisdom parking as an emerging industry, the development is not perfect, immature is understandable, but wisdom parking the trillion-dollar markets it is time for companies not to me, if the early market developed, not only can enjoy the “t” cake, but also can significantly improve the quality of people’s life, and promote the development of intelligent city. In order to make a breakthrough, intelligent parking needs to improve itself from the following aspects.
Break through the platform information barrier. Relevant data show that smart parking can improve the utilization rate of parking Spaces by 30%. However, as each smart parking platform has its own policies, there will be isolated islands of parking space information between smart parking lots, which greatly reduces the improvement effect of parking space utilization. Therefore, it is necessary to form an industrial alliance among intelligent parking platforms, build a parking space information sharing platform, break through the information barrier between platforms, and maximize parking resources through resource sharing.
Step up technology research and development. At present, the main technology of intelligent parking has been solved, but the important reason why intelligent parking has not been developed on a large scale in the country is the high cost of intelligent parking. In order to solve the problem of high cost of smart parking, it is necessary for smart parking enterprises to strengthen technological research and development, mass production and simplification of technology, so as to popularize it on a large scale across the country.
Enrich product ecology. Facing the future, driverless cars and smart cities will realize the interconnection of everything. Cars, as an important scene of human life, can occupy almost one tenth of the time of modern human life, so they will be a new “user entrance”. Therefore, it is possible to integrate after-service businesses such as car repair, maintenance and beauty, and even peripheral businesses such as entertainment, shopping and medical care into the smart parking system to create a larger market with this huge flow port.
summary
In a word, smart parking can effectively solve the current “difficult parking” problem, improve the utilization rate of parking Spaces and parking efficiency, so that people can park more convenient and fast. But the development of intelligent parking is still not mature, and can not solve the problem of “difficult parking”, so although intelligent parking is a great market industry, but there is still a long way to go to large-scale commercial.
Article/Liu Kuang public number, ID: Liukuang110, this article is the first Chinese fir car network