On January 30th night, Mr. Shao, a citizen, drove to dine nearby the Wanda Plaza. Before his departure, he clicked the “Yichang City Parking” APP and made a parking reservation. After his arrival, he parked his car at the booked parking place easily.

　　“I am using the smart parking which simplifies the parking and paying, parking is not the problem anymore!” Mr. Shao said happily.

　　Smart APP Figured out the Parking Problem

　　With the development of our society and economy and improvement of people’s living standard of Yichang, the ownership of vehicles is increasing sharply with ever-growing “parking problem”, which has been the hot topic in people’s livelihood. The launch of “Yichang City Parking” APP has solved this problem efficiently.

　　At present, “Yichang City Parking” APP has been put into IOS and Android software market. After downloading and registration, citizens can complete parking space enquiry, one-key location, parking space reservation, self-service payment (WeChat pay and Alipay), the issue of electronic bills, SMS platform, server encryption and security functions. Those parking headaches can be solved easily.

　　APP user can also experience non-inductive pay, when vehicle leaves the parking lot, its license plate will be automatically identified by barrier gate making the parking fee deduction, car owners do not have to stop to achieve rapid departure. The owners without downloading the APP should pay through WeChat pay or Alipay at the barrier gate.

　　“City Parking” APP instructions

　　Citizens search “Yichang City Parking” APP software through “Application” or “APP Store on their mobile phone, click installation, and then register and bind corresponding license plate number. Unbounded vehicles can only be accessed to the query function.

　　With “Looking for parking lot” in “Home Page” chosen, the software will show the available ones nearby the destination, and display the specific parking space after the parking lot being selected. The driver can query parking fee in accordance with parking time line dragged. At this point, click the "route" or "navigation" to the selected car park, the software will show the corresponding route. As long as the account amount is sufficient, and the "Automatic Payment" function is activated in "Setup", the driver can enjoy the non-inductive pay.

　　If the users want to check their parking information, click “Looking for parking lot” in “Home Page” to search for the current parking time, and then view the details by clicking the down arrow.

　　According to the regulation, parking within half an hour, is free; parking within 2 hours, is 5 yuan; parking within 24 hours, is 12 yuan, the maximum price.

　　From now until April 30, citizens who download and register this App can get 50-yuan parking tickets; who share App to friends can get 10-yuan parking tickets; who recharge 100 yuan to 200 yuan can get 20- yuan parking tickets; who recharge 200 yuan to 300 yuan can get 40-yuan parking tickets. By parity of reasoning, the maximum is 1000 yuan of recharging one for 300- yuan parking tickets. Each owner can claim it 3 times within the validity of charging.

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　　13 Smart Parking Lots

　　8 Have Been Completed

　　It is learned that there are 294,000 cars in the urban area, 142,000 in downtown area, but only 103,600 parking seats at present. From the current quantity of vehicle and parking berth, the shortage is 38,000. According to the dynamic berth demand of 15.62-184,700, the shortage is up to 5.26-81,000.

　　To solve the “parking problem”, Yichang spares no efforts to carry out the smart parking program. In the intelligent transformation of road berths, a total of 3,817 berths have been planned in reconstruction. In the first phase, 800 berths have been completed with intelligent parking system platform installed, which can provide query and navigation functions, and achieve information release.

　　In the implementation of 13 intelligent parking lots, 8 have been finished, offering 1,418 parking seats. It is expected to complete intelligent transformation for 60 car-parking lots of which 20 have been accessible, 24 are in operation and 30 are under coordination and promotion. (Reporter: He Guanying, Zhao Jingyi; Correspondent: Xi Changyi, Tian Jian)