Swarco Parking Guidance System Zug

The city of Zug, capital of the Swiss canton has about 28,000 inhabitants. More than 31,000 jobs in Zug produce a high commuting with appropriate search for parking. Because of its location on Lake Zug, the city also has a high tourist value as well. Both facts generate a corresponding search for parking to be directed through a parking guidance system.

Solution

The parking guidance system in Zug connects a total of 17 parking facilities. Open parking spaces with single space detection via magnetic field sensors in the system were included as a special feature.

27 dynamic signposts pointing drivers to free parking spaces in the urban area, at 5 locations added to variable messages for event announcements. This signalisation is complemented by static signs.

Particular emphasis was placed in the historic old town on a cityscape compatible, compact version of the signalisation.

The host computer system is located in the parking garage "Altstadt / Casino". It controls and monitors the complete system. The intuitive user interface was created in web technology.

Facts and data

Client: Parking Guidance System Zug AG
Construction time: March – December 2014
Scope of work: 27 dynamic signposts in LCD-technology, data acquisition in 17 parking facilities, data transmission via GPRS, host computer system with GUI in Web-technology

About SWARCO

SWARCO – the Austrian-based traffic technology corporation of Tyrolean entrepreneur Manfred Swarovski – is an international group providing the complete range of products, systems, services and solutions for road safety and intelligent traffic management. With almost five decades of experience in the industry, SWARCO supports the growing mobility needs of society with turnkey systems and solutions in road marking, urban and interurban traffic control, parking, public transport, detection, infomobility and energy-efficient, LED-based signaling and lighting technology. The Group consists of roughly 80 companies in 24 countries with a total staff of almost 2700 employees and annual revenues of almost half a billion Euro.