Park and Ride at Taiwan High Speed Rail Taichung Station

First published in the Intertraffic Innovations Guide - April 15, 2020

Parkxper is highlighting a deployment that makes the best use of the company’s intelligent parking products and systems.

The company has already worked with Taiwan High Speed Rail for its other two big stations, and earlier this year began work on a third project at Taichung Station.

Taichung Station has a huge parking lot with four levels, totalling some 1,482 parking spaces. Parkxper was tasked with relieving the stress of finding parking spaces during rush hour. With the help of the company’s intelligent parking management system, Parkxper has made it even easier for drivers to finish parking within three minutes.

Widespread use of dynamic LED signage, placed at each important junction, guides drivers to the area with most spaces available. It uses text, numbers, and symbols, depending on the need of the parking lot, all of which are customisable.

The facility also features a camera-based parking system (PGS) with LEDs which guide drivers: the LEDs show green for vacant spaces; red for occupied; and blue for disabled parking; while pink denotes parent and child. A single LED can cover six spaces, considerably saving energy but also easy to see.

For outdoor parking areas, Parkxper deployed its PGS cameras which undertake licence plate recognition. The system not only makes it quicker for drivers to find their vehicles, it is also easier to manage by knowing the occupancy rate.

Another feature of the Parkxper deployment at Taichung Station is camera-based PGS and Car Finder Kiosks, which the company says is the essential combination for large parking lots. It prevents the driver from walking around the lot looking for their vehicle, taking way longer to exit the lot than they should.