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As an approach to sustainable transportation, the emphasis on locally carbon-free vehicle technology is growing. And the active driver assisting vehicle technology is progressively developed and introduced to the market. While achieving sustainable mobility society, the convenience improvement is also required mainly driven by the customer’s awareness and acceptance of the new technology. In this paper, the authors propose a user based intelligent parking system by combining the smart vehicle technology with the connectivity of mobile communication which will maximize the user convenience in urban transportation application. In addition, adopting wireless charging method for electric vehicles will augment the user convenience of parking effort, which will lead to improving safety and convenience, and hence to more rapid market diffusion of electric vehicle. The authors propose a User Based Intelligent Parking System (UBIPS) that incorporates autonomous parking and automatic wireless charging for electric vehicles. The technology components are well defined and discussed based on information technology converged with the smart vehicle technology. The system will allow the user to leave and get back the vehicle at the entrance of the parking facility, which completely removing the parking lot hunting efforts. Therefore, it will reduce overall energy consumption and CO2, but providing improved convenience and safety toward sustainable transportation, especially contributing to implementation of electric vehicles. And key considerations on drivers, social and economic considerations will be discussed during the phase-in of the new technology introduction to the transportation system especially focused on interaction with traditional vehicles or with pedestrian with UBIPS.

Intelligent Guided and Automated Parking System for Micro-Sized Electric Vehicles with Wireless Charging Capability: This is an alternate title. This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Transportation Demand Management.

01503729

14-4904

English

17p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

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Autonomous vehicle guidance; Connectivity; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Intelligent transportation systems; Mobile communication systems; Parking facilities; Parking guidance systems; Sustainable transportation; Wireless communication systems

Intelligent parking systems

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4904

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 3:43PM