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Can't find parking?

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The parking shortage in local authorities, and especially in Tel Aviv, is increasing.

Existing technology already allows change to be made, but it can only be accomplished by making cities smart.

Who will be the first to sing the glove?

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Akiva Armon, guest column

Sunday, 08 August 2021, 08:41 Updated: 08:44

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The average time to find available parking in crowded cities is 26 minutes, with 30% of the traffic jams on the city's roads being the result of the same constant search for parking - mainly blue and white parking.

One of the main, but less talked about, reasons leading to road traffic congestion in recent years is the parking shortage in local authorities.

Currently, the average time to find available parking in crowded cities is 26 minutes, with 30% of traffic jams occurring on city roads being the result of the same relentless search for parking - mostly blue and white parking.

Parking is a significant component of transportation management and affects land use, safety, economic development and the quality of service provided to the resident and driver visiting the city.

Thus, for example, in Tel Aviv, which is considered the peak of the parking shortage in Israel, 450,000 vehicles enter every day, with the number of street parking lots belonging to the municipality standing at 120,000 parking spaces.

This is almost 4 times more vehicles than parking.

True, there are parking lots, but they are mostly expensive and unattractive for multi-hour parking, so the Israeli driver's main struggle is over street parking.

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There is room for improvement

Local authorities entrusted with managing the municipal parking resource and enforcing public order face a rather complex challenge, as they are unable to directly monitor vital information about vehicles visiting and using its most sought-after real estate property - street parking. Uncertainty regarding identification and parking time Of any driver, leading to a lack of planning and poor management that micromanages the costs of the parking resource, leading to sometimes unfair use by drivers and residents, under-utilization of parking, loss of revenue on the part of the municipality and difficulty in locating parking on the part of drivers.

Although we have all recently heard of app developments that help locate available parking and neighborhood WhatsApp groups that report available parking, they are limited and unable to provide a real solution to the problem.

Trends around the world show that large and central cities are becoming more congested, with the pace of their adoption of technologies that streamline the use of limited urban resources, including parking, being relatively slow and requiring in-depth thinking.

Although Israel is considered a start-up nation, there is still room for improvement when it comes to adopting parking technologies.

Today, there are international technologies with an emphasis on Israeliness, which make the city a truly smart city when it comes to managing the street parking lots scattered around the city.

If so, how can the problem be solved?

Another technological solution is surface parking facilities.

One of them is a parking carousel - a giant wheel-like device designed for cars, which allows the conversion of two individual parking spaces to 166 parking spaces

Today, there are innovative AI-based systems, which can be placed around cities, on light poles or traffic lights, which can provide information online, 24/7, about the number of available parking spaces throughout the city, where the demand areas for parking lots are, whether there is a need to add Parking for the disabled or charging stations for electric vehicles and more. In this way, the municipality can get a complete picture of its parking system, on the entrance roads to and within the city, and make decisions based on accurate and up-to-date information. The system also makes it possible to conduct orderly enforcement of parking fees and thus assist municipalities in maintaining public order, by making sure that parking lots are indeed paid for and occupied by those designated for that purpose.

It is important to note that such a move requires full responsiveness on the part of the authorities, financial investment and most importantly an understanding that this needs to be done as part of a comprehensive change of making the city smart. For the sake of the world, it is time for us to join the revolution.

There is also an existing technology in the form of parking multipliers, which sit as a monument in residential buildings and city centers and are not properly used by residents, apparently due to lack of knowledge about how they operate.

Another technological solution is surface parking facilities.

One of them is a parking carousel - a giant wheel-like device designed for cars, which allows the conversion of two individual parking spaces into 166 parking spaces.

There are also floor sensors, which are installed on the ground under the vehicle and monitor the presence of a parked vehicle.

Their advantage is that they are suitable for monitoring in open parking lots or on the street.

All of these are existing technologies, which have not yet realized their potential, as their cost is high for municipalities and so we rarely come across them.

Much depends on the heads of the authorities (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Akiva Armon (Photo: Yachz)

Bottom line, there are a lot of things to improve, both in terms of the bureaucracy that has been with us for years and in terms of better service to parkers.

If municipal authorities do not take operational measures to upgrade the capabilities of this municipal resource, they may face problems in various areas, such as business damage, road accidents, air pollution and heavy traffic loads, which will expand the "bottleneck" phenomenon of vehicles during rush hour, and make it difficult. On entering and leaving the city.

Akiva Armon is the co-founder and CEO of Wisesight, a company that provides smart parking solutions.

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