Overview
ISO 37163:2020 - "Smart community infrastructures - Smart transportation for parking lot allocation in cities" defines procedures for installing and organizing smart transportation systems that help drivers find and be allocated parking spaces in urban areas. The standard targets cities with low parking availability and aims to increase usable parking capacity, reduce search time, lower congestion and emissions, and improve road safety. ISO 37163 clarifies concepts and goals for parking allocation services and references technical aspects in ITU‑T Y.4456 while emphasizing increased availability, high security and terminal‑to‑terminal communication.
Key topics and requirements
- Scope and concept: Procedures for implementing parking lot allocation systems to provide more opportunities for drivers to find available spaces and to share parking resources more frequently.
- Planning and adoption: Guidance on planning deployments in cities, identifying objectives, and selecting target vehicles and parking assets.
- Information elements and data flows: Definitions of the types of information to collect (location, availability windows, parking time, payment options), methods for information collection, and data transfer requirements to support real‑time allocation.
- Allocation and user information: Procedures to match driver requests/preferences with current and expected parking availability and to notify drivers (navigation, availability, booking).
- Parking fee handling: Recommendations for integration of payment processes and collection within allocation services.
- Data exchange and sharing management: Emphasis on secure, traceable data sharing across stakeholders to increase parking availability and enable fast, decentralized processing.
- Security, privacy and quality maintenance: Requirements for high security of identification, payment and communications, plus privacy protection and ongoing monitoring and maintenance of system quality.
- Operational enablers: Use of sensors, telecommunication devices, displays and signboards; support for innovations such as solar parking lots and vehicle‑to‑grid concepts as complementary measures.
Practical applications and who uses it
ISO 37163 is relevant for:
- City planners and municipal transport authorities designing parking policies and smart mobility services
- Parking operators and facility managers implementing dynamic allocation and fee collection
- Smart city solution providers and ITS integrators building apps, sensor networks and terminal‑to‑terminal systems
- Policy makers and sustainability teams aiming to reduce congestion, energy use and emissions
Practical uses include real‑time parking allocation platforms, systems that unlock underused or unoffered parking capacity, integrated payment and navigation services, and coordinated data‑sharing ecosystems that improve urban parking availability.
Related standards
- ITU‑T Y.4456 - technical aspects of parking facilities and reservation (referenced)
- ISO 37156, ISO 37154 - related ISO work on data exchange and urban mobility topics
- Links to UN Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 11 sustainable cities)
Keywords: ISO 37163, smart transportation, parking lot allocation, smart parking, parking availability, data security, privacy, urban mobility, smart community infrastructures.