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WMATA Real-Time Parking Information Feasibility Study Chapter 3: BEST PRACTICES REVIEW sampling of systems across the country and the technologies each system currently employs. Table 3-1 Summary of APS Systems Name Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) Purpose Guidance to Lot Guidance within Lot Guidance to Space Reservation System Availability on Web Site Regional ITS Integration Airport × × × Portland International Airport (PDX) Airport - × - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP) Airport - × - Airport × × - Bay Area Rapid Transit Transit × × - Chicago Metra Park and Ride Transit × × × × City of St. Paul, MN Special Events × × × × - Seattle, Washington (Seattle Center) Urban Center × × × City of Pittsburgh, PA Urban Center × × × - City of Santa Monica Key Technology Included in System Technology Not Included in System × Unknown - Urban Center/ Beach Area × × × - Examples of APS Systems Several brief summaries of APS Systems are provided in this chapter, along with detailed descriptions of the Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) facility, toured as part of this study, and the BART system in San Francisco. More detail can be found in the Technical Memorandum. Portland International Airport (PDX), Portland, Oregon PDX has an Advanced Parking Guidance System (APGS) installed in its existing parking garage, which accommodates 3,300 spaces. Vehicle sensors are installed at each parking space to detect and indicate the real-time occupancy. A red LED on the sensor indicates the parking space is occupied, and a green LED (or blue LED for disabled spaces) indicates the space is available. The APGS system uses the occupancy status from each parking space sensor to continuously update information on the dynamic signs, directing motorists to available parking spaces. The APGS continuously calculates the number of available spaces within each zone or floor, and it continuously updates the display on each dynamic sign. Additional dynamic signs display the number of available spaces in a given row. Counting on the roof level uses embedded loops under the entry and exit ramps to detect vehicle movements and calculate occupancy. Page 3-2 June 2009
WMATA Real-Time Parking Information Feasibility Study Chapter 3: BEST PRACTICES REVIEW The APGS also interfaces with Open/Full signs at the garage entry. APGS counting is based on the space sensor status, pre-count sensor status, and user-controlled overrides. A second parking garage is currently under construction and will add approximately 2,500 parking spaces equipped with APGS technology. The PDX web site also includes a real time update of parking availability for the garage and lots. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), Texas Terminal D of the DFW Airport is equipped with “Smart Parking” technology which consists of LED displays informing motorists of how many spaces are available on each level of the 8-story garage. Once inside, the smart technology will direct motorists to a location with an available space. The dynamic-message system indicates the floors where spaces are available using sensors installed under the pavement on each garage level. The system includes vehicle detection sensors, automated barrier gates, central processing, access control subsystem, motorist information signs, communications subsystem, and systems integration. The parking structure at Terminal D provides 8,100 parking spaces. Parking availability information is accessible on the airport web site, dedicated phone line, and via pod cast. Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP), Minnesota MSP has offered way-finding signage and real-time parking availability information since 2002. The facility uses overhead LED signs to inform motorists of which levels are available in the facility. Exterior DMSs are also used at entrances and exits as well as on access roadways. Parking status is provided at two advanced locations and at the entrance to each parking option as well as available by phone, on the internet, and via text message. Chicago Metra Park and Ride, near Chicago, Illinois The Metra Parking Management Guidance System includes eight DMSs located in a corridor with two commuter rail stations. Loop detectors in the pavement at the rail station parking lots detect vehicles entering and exiting the lots. Information from the loop detectors is sent to a central computer system that estimates the available parking and determines the message to be sent via wireless communications to the DMSs. The DMSs provide motorists with a real-time estimate of the number of available parking spaces at the rail station lots. If parking at a station is unavailable, the sign will indicate that the lot is full and suggest an alternative parking option. This technology is installed at two park and ride surface lots encompassing approximately 4,000 parking spaces with a total of eight deployed signs within ¼ to 3 miles of both stations to enable both road-toparking lot guidance as well as lot-to-lot guidance. The system is integrated with the regional ITS structure. City of St. Paul, Minnesota The APS system in St. Paul interconnects eight different parking facilities in the downtown area and began as a test initiative in 1995-96. Electronic signs display realtime parking availability information for planned special events in the Civic Center/Rice Park area of downtown St. Paul. The eight parking facilities that are included in the system provide approximately 4,700 parking spaces. The system updates real-time Page 3-3 June 2009
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