Rest Area and Service Area Usage and Parking Turnover Measurement
Solutions
Lookout™
Industry
Roads·Rail
Applicatios
Parking & Space Analytics
Measure how much rest areas and service areas are actually used,
as the basis for expansion and operating decisions.
Target Customers
• Road corporations and expressway operators
• Rest area and service area operations departments
• Transportation facility design and operations consulting firms
• Local government traffic and road policy departments
Challenges
• Actual utilization and parking turnover at rest areas and service areas are unknown, leaving insufficient basis to decide expansion scale
• Only occupancy is known; utilization by time slot and queues and congestion cannot be measured
• A structural limit of having to set budgets and policies without measured data
Existing Limitations
• Per-space embedded sensors are costly to build and maintain and do not provide utilization or turnover information
• Manual surveys provide only partial data from specific points in time, making it hard to explain the overall pattern
• CCTV carries the burden of exposing license plates and personal information and is limited in automated counting
Solution Approach
• Continuously measure per-space occupancy, vacancy, and turnover without excavation using LiDAR
• Analyze utilization by time of day and day of week together with queues and aisle congestion
• Define parking areas as zones and determine occupancy status in real time
• Visualize usage on an operations dashboard and integrate with external systems
• Minimize privacy exposure with 3D coordinate data
Expected Benefits
• Secure a measured basis for estimating expansion scale
• Reduce build and maintenance costs compared with per-space embedded sensors
• Make facility usage and operating efficiency visible
• Improve operations by identifying congested time slots
