Frauenfeld integrates old town parking garage into Smart Parking

(CONNECT) The city of Frauenfeld is expanding its Smart Parking system to include the Altstadt parking garage. This has now been announced by the city. 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 parks and 24 cameras.

The occupancy is recorded there every two minutes and displayed on the app. This should enable road users to find a free parking space more quickly and benefit from smoother traffic.

The Altstadt parking garage 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 parking garage offers 66 parking spaces in a central location.

Following the renovation of the Passage shopping center, its multi-storey parking lot 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), has made it possible to efficiently record and analyze parking space occupancy in real time with its image recognition system. ce/mm