技术与停车行业(英文)
Technology and the Parking
Industry
不要错过这篇文章，它由IPI技术委员会的一名成员所写，涉及到智能卡技术和自动车辆识别；无线手持停车场入口和收费管理系统以及动态车位显示器显示可用车位信息；车牌识别的发展。
若干年以前，当我第一次被问到技术和停车行业在哪些方面结合得比较好，我的回答是即兴的，我对此思考的并不多。当时是一位专业作家问我，因为IPI让他联系技术委员会，他想了解智能卡的信息。从那时起，我的观点并没有改变多少…但现实中却发生了很多变化。
我认为停车和技术在三个方面正在慢慢地融合。第一是区域性大众设施的应用，例如智能卡和自动车辆识别系统，在我看来这是停车付费方式的自然演变。第二是互联网，尤其是停车预定系统的应用，通过两种不同技术可以得知停车位信息，无线手持停车收费控制系统和动态的车位显示器。三是市场规则使得车牌识别的成本降低，从而使大量的公司把认可的车牌识别技术应用在收费和停车领域。
正文：
Don't miss this very detailed article from a member of IPI's Technological
Committee regarding smart cards and Automatic Vehicle Identification(AVI);
wireless handheld parking access and revenue control(PARC)systems
along with dynamic space indicators to produce parking availability
information;and License Plate Recognition evolution.
Several years ago,when first asked about where technology and the
parking industry were headed,my response was off-the-cuff.I hadn't
really thought about it much.A professional writer asked me because
the International Parking Institute put her in contact with the
Technological Committee and she wanted information about smart cards.Since
then,my opinions have not changed much…and much of what I opined
about at the time has taken place.
I had four areas where I believed parking and technology were merging-or
emerging.Since then,I have combined two of these concepts and now
have settled on three areas where parking and technology are merging.First,the
use of regionally prevalent infrastructures-such as smart cards
and Automatic Vehicle Identification(AVI)-seemed to me to be a natural
extension of a method to pay for parking fees.Second,the use of
Internet and, specifically,parking reservations systems appeared
to be on the horizon.Electronic systems are now available to determine
and communicate parking availability within a facility.There are
two different technologies that can produce parking availability
information:Wireless hanheld parking access and revenue control(PARC)
system,and Dynamic space indicators.Third,the law of economics has
provided for decreased costs associated with License Plate Recognition(LPR)
as a result of there being a plethora of companies using proven
LPR technology for toll and parking applications.
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