ITS Element: Bicycle Parking Facilities

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Description: This element represents facilities where bicycles can be parked, either paid or unpaid. Facilities may have a financial payment interface for paying for the parking.
Status: Planned
Stakeholder: Regional Multimodal Transportation Service Provider
Mapping: Parking Management
Other Parking

Interfaces:

 Bicycle Parking Management System
District Traveler Information System
Financial Institutions
Regional Smart Card
Market Packages: ATMS16 - Parking Facility Management - Bike Stations
Functional Requirements:

Parking Management

  • The parking element shall maintain parking lot information including static information such as hours of operation, rates, location, entrance locations, capacity, type, and constraints; as well as dynamic information such as current state of the lot, occupancy, arrival rates, and departure rates.
  • The parking element shall provide the capability to detect, count, and classify empty slots within the parking facility.

Parking Electronic Payment

  • The parking element shall support the payment of parking lot transactions using data provided by the traveler cards / payment instruments.
  • The parking element shall maintain a list of invalid traveler credit identities.
  • The parking element shall provide an interface to the cyclist informing them of the success or failure of the financial transaction.
  • The parking element shall read data from the traveler card / payment instrument carried on-board the bicycle or by the traveler.
  • The parking element shall collect data on payment violations and send the data, including images of the violator and the vehicle registration data obtained from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office, to the appropriate enforcement agency.
  • The parking element shall process the financial requests and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.

Last updated: 06-10-11