The automated parking garage has a long tradition in architecture and technology. In 1906, the architecture and engineering office AG Perret established a kind of mechanical parking system with the garage on the Rue du Ponthieu in Paris - the forerunner of the automated parking garage. As an alternative to conventional concrete parking garages, the automated parking garage offers more opportunities through urban and technological adaptability. An automated parking garage further has the significant advantage of increasing the safety of vehicle and driver, particularly from dangers such as vandalism, theft and violent crime. Uncomfortable and dark areas of fear, such as are common in large conventional parking garages, simply do not exist in automated parking garages.
Automated Parking Garages
An automated parking garage is a garage where cars are parked without the aid of a driver. In an automated parking garage, the cars are transported to and back from free slots by means of a storage and retrieval machine.
An automated parking garage is an excellent alternative to conventional, ramp-based garages because they are economically and ecologically sensible and sustainable: An automatic garage parks up to three times as many cars in the same area, an automated parking garage is more secure because it is not open for the public or even the drivers, an automated parking garage produces significantly less CO2 than is produced in conventional garages, and an automated parking garage can easily be integrated into existing ensembles - such as historic districts – in the most elegant manner.
Automation in the form of an automated parking garage is in use worldwide, particularly in densely populated and vibrant high-traffic urban centers. Further, automated parking garages fit well in urban-planning sensitive ensembles with high standards of living and recreational value.