PARKING NAVIGATION SYSTEM IN THE KANNAI-ISEZAKI ZONE

Yokohama has a population of 3.3 million, making it Japan's second most populous city (the capital Tokyo ranks first), and lies southwest of Tokyo, with a distance of about 30 km between its Kannai-Isezaki zone and the center of Tokyo. Many extensive commercial and business functions are concentrated in midtown Yokohama, which is made up of three zones: the zone around Yokohama Station, which has the largest terminal in the city; the Kannai-Isezaki zone, which includes a cluster of government offices, bustling commercial streets, and tourist destinations; and the newly developed Minato Mirai 21 zone, where many tall buildings are under construction. This has resulted in a large volume of traffic by commercial, sightseeing, and other vehicles, along with illegal on-street parking, cars wandering about aimlessly lost, and lineups of vehicles waiting to enter specific parking lots, all of which has impeded normal urban activities. To relieve these problems, the Ministry of Construction (the Yokohama National Highway Construction Office), with the cooperation of parking lot operators, introduced a parking navigation system, which offers guidance to parking lots, in the zone around Yokohama Station in 1988, followed by introduction of this system in the Kannai-Isezaki zone in 1997 and in the Minato Mirai 21 zone in September 1998. This report describes mainly this parking navigation system in the Kannai-Isezaki zone. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102946.

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  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 5TH WORLD CONGRESS

  KUSANG BLDG, 4TH FLOOR, 1009-5, DAECHI-DONG KANGNAM-KU
  SEOUL, ZZ KOREA    135-283
• Authors:
  • MIYOKAWA, K
• Conference:
  • TOWARDS THE NEW HORIZON TOGETHER. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, HELD 12-16 OCTOBER 1998, SEOUL, KOREA. PAPER NO. 3178
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver information systems; Parking; Parking facilities
• ITRD Terms: 955: Parking; 975: Parking place (one veh only)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00780886
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 89-950073-2-X
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 7 2000 12:00AM