JP2004118703A - Guidance system in parking lot - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a guidance system to serve inside a parking lot capable of eliminating congestion inside the lot by enabling each incoming vehicle to park quickly in an empty space and liberating the incoming vehicles following from congestion. <P>SOLUTION: A parking vehicle sensor 15 is installed in a parking space 14 of a parking lot 11, and a parking ticket is issued while the innermost space among the empty parking spaces is specified for the incoming vehicle 18 on the basis of the data about the vehicles parking, and guide lights 21 are lighted for the vehicle on a running path leading to the specified parking space 19. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an in-parking space guidance system that guides a vehicle that wants to enter a parking lot to an empty space without congestion or congestion in the parking lot.
[0002]
[Prior art]
At present, with regard to public parking lots for rent (department, public, private and other facilities), information on vacant parking lots on peripheral roads is displayed in a format such as "full" or "vacant". The user goes to a vacant parking lot based on this information. Under such circumstances, the vacancy of the parking lot is managed by the number of parkable parking lots, the number of parked cars, and the number of departures, but when you enter a parking lot that should be vacant, it is quite vacant A space cannot be found, it takes time to find an empty space, and the entrance area is crowded with entering vehicles due to the effect of a vehicle traveling at a low speed while searching for an empty space in the hall.
[0003]
There is also known a method of installing a contact type parking sensor for detecting a parked vehicle and a wireless sensor including a transmitter in a parking space in a parking lot and guiding the vehicle to an empty space. That is, one repeater is provided for each parking space, and the parking condition data from the transmitter is relayed and transmitted to the management room. The receiving device in the management room processes the received data and displays the parking situation on the screen. In addition, the system uses the obtained parking situation data to display an empty space number on a display guide panel provided near the entrance of the parking lot, and guides the entered vehicle to an empty parking space. (For example, see Patent Document 1).
[0004]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-8-305998.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, even in the parking lot management system described in Patent Literature 1, it is possible for the driver to freely determine where the entering vehicle parks in some of the empty spaces even if the empty space of the parking lot can be presented to the entering vehicle. Therefore, if you are wondering where to park, or if you select a space in the hall to park in an empty space near the entrance, the following entrance vehicles will be congested and still cause congestion in the hall .
[0006]
The present invention has been made to solve such a conventional problem, and a parking lot guidance system capable of promptly parking an entering vehicle in an empty space, eliminating congestion of subsequent entering vehicles, and eliminating congestion in the parking lot. The purpose is to provide.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, a parking space guidance system according to the present invention is provided which enters a vacant parking space of a parking lot configured to issue a parking ticket at an entrance having a management room, an entrance gate and an entrance gate. In a parking space guidance system for guiding a vehicle, a parking vehicle detection sensor is provided in each parking space, and based on parked data detected by the parking vehicle detection sensor, an innermost empty space in the parking lot for the entering vehicle based on the parked data. Is designated as a parking space, and the designated parking space number is specified in the parking ticket.
[0008]
Furthermore, the gist within the parking lot according to the present invention is that a guide light for guiding an entering vehicle to the designated parking space is provided on a traveling path in the parking lot.
[0009]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.
[0010]
In the parking lot 11, a management room 13 is provided at an entrance 12, and a number of parking spaces 14 are defined in the parking lot. The entrance 12 has an entrance gate 12a and an exit gate 12b. Further, parked vehicle detection sensors 15 are installed in all the parking spaces 14. When the vehicle 16 is parked in the parking space 20 as in the example of FIG. 1, data indicating that the vehicle is parked is provided in the management room 13. It is input to the personal computer 17.
[0011]
A parked vehicle detection sensor 15 provided in each parking space 14 and a personal computer 17 in the management room 13 are electrically connected by wire or wirelessly. As a result, the personal computer 17 can identify which parking space is currently being used for parking in the current parking space 14 and which parking space is empty. In this example, it is recorded that the vehicle 16 is already parked in the innermost parking space 20. When the vehicle 18 to be entered arrives at the entrance gate 12a, a parking ticket (not shown) is issued. In this parking ticket, the number of the designated parking space 19 to be parked for the entering vehicle 18 is clearly indicated. That is, the number of the empty space 19 adjacent to the innermost parking space 20 of the already parked parking lot is clearly indicated on the parking ticket lent to the entrance vehicle 18 and provided to the driver. The designated parking space 19 is the deepest space in the parking lot 11 at that time.
[0012]
Generally, the driver's psychology of the entrance vehicle is that they usually want to park near the entrance gate or near the entrance of human beings, but this is the cause of congestion in the parking lot and near the entrance gate. Such a problem can be solved by forcibly parking the vehicle from the innermost part of the parking lot because it is a factor of parking congestion in the parking lot.
[0013]
When the driver instructs the designated parking space 19 at the entrance 12 and the entrance gate 12a is opened, the traveling guide light 21 for guiding the traveling path to the designated parking space 19 in the shortest way is provided on the traveling path in the parking lot. Light. As a result, the entrance vehicle 18 is guided to the designated parking space 19 according to the traveling guide light 21 embedded in the road surface. As a result, it is possible to eliminate congestion in the hall due to the driver searching for an empty space and traveling at low speed. When the entrance vehicle 18 is parked in the designated parking space 19 in this manner, the parking completion is detected by the parked vehicle sensor 15 and the data of the personal computer 17 in the management room 13 is updated from the empty space during parking. At the same time, the traveling guide light 21 is turned off.
[0014]
Next, the operation of the above-described parking lot guidance system will be described with reference to FIG. First, a parked space in the parking lot 11 is detected (Step 1). Next, an empty space is detected (Step 2). Of the empty spaces, the innermost space in the parking lot is detected (Step 3). When the entrance vehicle 18 arrives at the entrance 12, the entrance vehicle 18 is detected (Step 4), and the deepest empty space in the parking lot at that time is designated as the designated parking space. A parking ticket with the determined parking space number specified is issued (Step 5). When the parking ticket is issued, the entrance gate 12a is opened, and at the same time, the guide light 21 indicating the shortest running path to the designated parking space is turned on on the road surface, and the entering vehicle 18 is guided to the designated parking space 19 (Step 6).
[0015]
【The invention's effect】
According to the guide system in the parking lot of the present invention, the entering vehicle is guided to the designated parking space at the innermost position without having to search for an empty parking space in the parking lot, thereby making it possible to eliminate congestion in the parking lot due to the subsequent entering vehicle. .
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Parking lot 12 ... Entrance 12a ... Entrance gate 12b ... Exit gate 13 ... Management rooms 14, 20 ... Parking space 15 ... Parking vehicle detection sensor 16 ... Vehicle 17 ... PC 18 ... Entry vehicle 19 ... Designated parking space 21 ... Running Guide light

Claims (2)

In a parking space guidance system for guiding an entry vehicle to an empty parking space of a parking lot configured to issue a parking ticket at an entrance having a management room, an entrance gate, and an entry gate, each parking space has a parking vehicle detection sensor. Based on the parked data detected by the parked vehicle detection sensor, the innermost empty space in the parking lot is designated as a parking space for the entering vehicle, and the designated parking space number is clearly indicated on the parking ticket. An induction system in a parking lot characterized by being configured as described above. The guide system in a parking lot according to claim 1, wherein a guide light for guiding an entering vehicle to the designated parking space is provided on a traveling path in the parking lot.

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