Toward Efficient Physical and Algorithmic Design of Automated Garages

Understand

Parking in large metropolitan areas is often a time-consuming task with further implications toward traffic patterns that affect urban landscaping.

• Reducing the premium space needed for parking has led to the development of automated mechanical parking systems.
• Compared to regular garages having one or two rows of vehicles in each island, automated garages can have multiple rows of vehicles stacked together to support higher parking demands.
• Although this multi-row layout reduces parking space, it makes the parking and retrieval more complicated.