Smart area parking for Hamburg Port Authority (HPA)

Optimized utilization of parking capacity

In the past, the capacity of the existing rest areas was not sufficient during peak times and at night and led to parking violations in adjacent areas. This resulted to road safety risks, pollution, garbage and search traffic by trucks with container trailers. A combination of insufficient parking spaces and missing information for truck drivers about the parking locations and vacant parking spaces resulted in unnecessary search traffic.

The Hamburg Port Authorities (HPA) contracted T-Systems to develop a smart parking system which optimizes the utilization of the existing capacity based on demand and considering the parking space availability, the road traffic situation and the processes at the port terminals in real-time.

Smart truck parking guidance

They deployed Nedap’s SENSIT smart parking sensors at all truck parking areas in the Port of Hamburg and transferred the processed occupancy information towards HPA’s own Port Road Management Center (PRMC). Thanks to this solution, truckers are guided to available parking spaces near their destination quickly and efficiently.

Award winning solution

Nedap’s SENSIT single space detection sensors with double detection technology were introduced over a decade ago, featuring market unknown high accuracy in real-time, which also allows truck applications. The single space sensors feature both IR and Magnetic detection technology and are awarded with the international parking innovation award and installed all over the world.

Benefits for truck drivers

The real-time occupancy status of the HPA Smart Parking Area is visible for all truck drivers on the PRMC controlled road side DIVA displays and is combined with the public traffic information.

Trucks enter the HPA Smart Area Parking and are registered with ANPR cameras. In the rest and catering area, the drivers need to register license plate number, truck dimensions and expected time of departure on a terminal. T-Systems International GmbH developed smart algorithms to process all information, calculate the parking fee and determine the assigned parking row considering an optimal departure of all the trucks.

Smart and sustainable Area Parking featuring:

• Optimized and SMART parking space utilization
• Real-time occupancy information for truck drivers
• In-ground parking space sensors
• Dual detection technology
• Less emissions for a greener Port Environment

“The Smart Area Parking system offers truckers accurate information of vacant parking spaces near our port. It reduces search traffic, parking violations and consequential emissions and contributes the ports sustainability goals. Ultimately this system resulted in a higher utilization of the existing parking capacity,” says Hermann D. Grünfeld, Hamburg Port Authority AöR.