Frauenfeld integrates old town car park into Smart Parking
Das Parkhaus Altstadt an der Frauenfelder Promenadenstrasse ist als erste private Parkanlage in das Smart Parking-System der Stadt aufgenommen worden. Bereits geplant ist auch die Aufschaltung des Parkhauses im Einkaufszentrums Passage nach dessen Umbau. Das Smart Parking-System basiert auf einem Projekt des Kantons Zürich.
The city of Frauenfeld is expanding its Smart Parking system to include the Altstadt multi-storey car park. The city has now announced this. To this end, it has been equipped with sensors that display free parking spaces in the Regio Frauenfeld app. The pilot project was launched in 2023 and continued in 2024 following a comprehensive evaluation. It now comprises a total of six car parks and 24 cameras.
Occupancy is recorded there every two minutes and visualised on the app. This should enable road users to find a free parking space more quickly and benefit from smoother traffic flow.
The Altstadt multi-storey car park is the only one not equipped with cameras. It is owned by Wohnpark Promenade AG and managed by Tobler Immobilien AG. A one-year trial operation was agreed with the managers of both companies. The underground car park offers 66 parking spaces in a central location.
Following the renovation of the Passage shopping centre, its multi-storey car park with around 260 parking spaces will also be connected. The construction work should be completed by the end of 2027.
Frauenfeld’s smart parking concept is based on a project by the Innovation Sandbox for Artificial Intelligence in the canton of Zurich. Parquery AG from Zurich, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich(ETH), used image recognition to efficiently record and analyse car park occupancy in real time.