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Bosch & Apcoa: Driverless parking aims to save time and space
After the automated valet parking at parking garage P6 at Stuttgart Airport was approved for commercial use, Bosch and APCOA are now expanding and installing the technology in 15 more parking garages in Germany. From Hamburg to Munich, the expansion of the infrastructure-based, automated, and driverless SAE Level 4 parking system is set to begin in 2023. In a first step, Bosch and APCOA plan to provide up to four parking spaces per garage for automated valet parking.
"We will expand the number of these parking spaces in line with the anticipated increase in vehicles with automated valet parking. Our experience with charging stations for electric vehicles shows us how important it is that the expansion of infrastructure keeps pace with this technology," explains Markus Heyn, a member of the Bosch management board and chairman of the company's Mobility Solutions business sector.
Thanks to Bosch's modular system, the number of parking spaces with infrastructure technology can be quickly expanded to up to 200 spaces at each of the 15 locations in the coming years.
Start of the global rollout of automated valet parking
The framework agreement now signed is the first step toward worldwide market launch. The aim is to equip several hundred parking garages around the globe with automated valet parking in the coming years.
"Germany is just the beginning - we expect to be able to gradually introduce automated parking in other countries around the world soon, once the corresponding legislation has been passed," says Claudia Barthle, who leads global software and service sales in the Cross-Domain Computing Solutions business area at Bosch and is responsible for the partnership with APCOA.
Germany is one of the few countries that has already passed Level 4 legislation, providing a framework for systems like automated parking. Other countries, such as France, are close to following suit.
"With the automated valet parking solution, we can offer our parking customers a whole new level of convenience. This feature is particularly advantageous in places where time is of the essence, such as airports, concert halls, event venues, and exhibition centers. Our location at Stuttgart Airport is therefore just the beginning," also promotes Frank van der Sant, a member of the management board and Chief Commercial Officer of the APCOA PARKING Group.
Shortly, automated valet parking will be available in selected parking garages in cities such as Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Munich. More parking garages in Europe will follow.
Intelligent Interaction of Infrastructure and Vehicle Technology
According to the presentation by the two partners, the time spent on time-consuming parking searches, annoying maneuvering, and the risk of dents and scratches should be over. The driver parks their vehicle in a handover zone near the entrance of a parking garage and starts the highly automated and driverless parking service via an app—this is the ideal. The basis for this are Bosch stereo cameras, which not only identify free parking spaces but also monitor the driving lane and its surroundings, reliably recognizing obstacles or people in the lane. When an unexpected obstacle is detected, the vehicle brakes and comes to a safe stop. It only continues its journey when the path is clear.
Camera Data Flows to Onboard Computers
All data generated by the cameras is fed into the onboard computers. Intelligent algorithms transmit the driving maneuver to be executed, thus enabling driverless parking—even when driving between floors on narrow ramps. The special feature of this solution is that the intelligent technology installed in the parking garage reduces the technical requirements in the vehicle to a minimum, making the automated and driverless parking service suitable for all vehicle classes, according to the manufacturer.
App Complements Ticket- and Cashless Handling
Thanks to Apcoa's FLOW platform, the service is designed to work not only driverless but also ticketless and cashless. Motorists already use the app of the same name to make parking easier. This ranges from the fixed reservation of a parking space to contactless entry into the parking garage—now conveniently via license plate recognition—to fully automatic payment, billing, and contactless exit. The system recognizes the vehicle or the customer's license plate, the barriers open automatically, making a ticket and the walk to the machine unnecessary.
Saving Space with Automated Parking
The provider manages around 1.8 million individual parking spaces at over 12,000 locations in 13 European countries. With the increasing availability of driverless and highly automated valet parking services, up to 20 percent more vehicles could be accommodated in the same area in the future, according to the promise. Furthermore, driverless parking is particularly suitable for tight, remote, and thus unattractive parking spaces.
The World's First Highly Automated Level 4 Parking System
According to the supplier, automated valet parking has made leaps and bounds. In mid-2017, Bosch and Mercedes-Benz presented the solution to the public as part of a pilot project in the parking garage of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Two years later, the partners received the world's first special permit for the operation of automated parking with selected vehicles without a safety driver under real traffic conditions in parking garages. The next milestone followed at the end of 2020: Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, and APCOA made the highly automated and driverless parking service available at Stuttgart airport and worked there on the first commercial use of the Level 4 system.
Still Elite: Available for Mercedes S-Class and EQS
With automated valet parking in parking garage P6 at Stuttgart airport, the world's first highly automated driverless parking function (SAE Level 4) has recently received official approval for commercial use in Germany—a world first for the commercial use of this driverless parking system. This function is initially available in Germany in the P6 parking garage at Stuttgart airport for certain S-Class and EQS variants with the so-called Intelligent Park Pilot.
Translated automatically from German.
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