The Economic Information Daily's reports from the Two Sessions highlight how AiParking's "Sky Eye" system is solving urban parking difficulties.
With the number of vehicles increasing year by year, "difficulty in parking" has become a livelihood issue that plagues urban management and has received increasing attention and importance. On March 11, 2021, the Economic Reference News' Two Sessions special issue discussed this, reporting that after the implementation of road parking electronic charging reform in Beijing in 2019, the "AlPARK Sky Eye" high-level video monitoring system provided by AiParking was adopted as the management equipment, significantly improving the level of parking management. The following is the original report:
In recent years, parking problems in large cities have become increasingly prominent, with frequent occurrences of parking chaos and difficulties, urgently requiring improvements in relevant policies to solve them. Guo Jifu, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Beijing Municipal Institute of Transportation Development, said that the current vehicle-to-parking space ratio in cities nationwide is severely inverted, with an average of two vehicles competing for one parking space. According to Ministry of Public Security statistics, in 2020, the total number of motor vehicles nationwide reached 372 million, including 281 million cars; the number of motor vehicle drivers reached 456 million, including 418 million car drivers. In 2020, 33.28 million new motor vehicles were registered, an increase of 1.14 million compared to 2019, representing a growth of 3.56%. Data shows that there are already more than 70 cities in China with over 1 million cars. Guo Jifu pointed out that in some areas, there is a lack of management of roadside and community parking, leading to chaos, congestion, and even the occupation of fire lanes, threatening urban safety. Industry insiders point out that parking difficulties have become a pain point for urban development. At the same time, the parking management industry has low concentration, lacks professional management models, parking lot turnover rates are not ideal, and low levels of intelligence and network connectivity are all reasons for the difficulty of parking in cities. Some experts believe that in the face of the large gap in urban parking demand in China and the low utilization rate of parking spaces, the development of "smart parking" has become an important link in solving traffic problems and improving people's travel experience. Under the normal state of imbalanced supply and demand for parking spaces, it is necessary to revitalize existing resources and improve the operating efficiency of parking spaces. The Central Committee of the China Democratic League pointed out that to promote the modernization of the national governance system and capacity, it is necessary to focus on the modernization of the urban governance system and capacity. From digitalization to intelligence and then to wisdom, making cities smarter and wiser is the only way to promote the modernization of the urban governance system and capacity. The Central Committee of the China Democratic League pointed out that the construction of a new type of smart city can achieve and satisfy people's yearning for a better life at a high level, improve the level of social governance with high efficiency, empower the rapid development of the economy with high quality, and enhance the city's attractiveness, creativity, competitiveness, and ability to prevent and control major emergencies. Taking Beijing as an example, Beijing is addressing the supply-demand imbalance by increasing the construction of multi-story parking garages and adding shared parking spaces; in terms of existing resources, it has introduced smart parking management methods to revitalize existing parking resources, significantly improving Beijing's parking management level. In 2019, Beijing implemented road parking electronic charging reform, using the "AIPARK Sky Eye" high-level video equipment as its management equipment, using artificial intelligence technology to achieve smart parking management, and at the same time empowering violation parking management, comprehensive traffic governance, key security prevention and control, and municipal comprehensive management, realizing the transformation from "commercial charging" to "government non-tax revenue" and from "manual on-site charging" to "electronic charging". Among them, the effect on roadside parking is the most significant. Currently, the parking rate on Beijing's roads has reached over 90%. Data shows that since 2020, 658 roads in 16 districts and the Economic and Technological Development Zone across Beijing, with 65,000 roadside parking spaces, have cumulatively served 70.18 million vehicles, serving a total of 5.64 million vehicles. Compared to the initial launch of electronic charging, the overall service scope has continuously expanded, and the number of people and vehicles served has also continued to increase. Currently, it has achieved an average daily service of 260,000 vehicles, reaching about 300,000 during peak hours, a significant increase compared to the initial launch. About AiParking: AIPARK, founded in 2015, is China's largest city-level smart parking platform, focusing on urban smart parking solutions and internet operation services. The company uses big data platform architecture, artificial intelligence technology, big data mining, and software and hardware integration, and is committed to using an innovative "Internet + AI" model to intelligently connect scattered parking lots and roads in the city, achieving smart parking and rapid passage. Currently, AiParking's city-level smart parking solutions have been implemented in more than 20 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Chengdu, Xining, and Shijiazhuang. In December 2020, China Zhongji Investment completed an equity investment in AiParking.
