Donghae City Offers First-in-Korea Guidance to Empty Parking Spaces... Real-Time Smart Parking Demo

Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Kakao, and Hyundai AutoEver Join Forces
Donghae City Unveils Address-based Precision Parking Service
Six Public Parking Lots with 630 Spaces around Mukho Port
Completion of "Parking-space-level" Address System Construction

Donghae City in Gangwon Province announced on the 11th that it will demonstrate a smart parking service on the 12th that guides drivers all the way to individual parking spaces, rather than just to parking lot entrances.

Entire route. Provided by Donghae City

The demonstration will be held at the Safety Information Center conference room in Donghae City Hall and around the Balhan-dong Administrative Welfare Center, as part of the "Address-based Parking Information Construction and Convergence Service Model Pilot Project."

This project has been promoted as a public contest project organized by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and was built through public-private cooperation involving Donghae City, Kakao, Hyundai AutoEver, and others.

The city has applied a parking-space-level address system to 630 spaces across six public parking lots near Mukho Port, and implemented a guidance service that reflects real-time parking information by combining location sensors with spatial information data.

Unlike existing navigation systems, which only guide drivers to parking lot entrances or to lot-level addresses, this service can provide route guidance all the way to currently available individual parking spaces. During the demonstration, IONIQ 5 and EV9 electric vehicles will showcase the functionality through actual driving.

Previously, the city completed the construction of spatial information data for 200 public parking lots with approximately 10,000 spaces, thereby laying the foundation for future expansion of the service.

This pilot project is evaluated as a collaborative model that links address information policy, municipal spatial data, and private-sector navigation technology. Donghae City is advancing transportation convenience services in preparation for an expected increase in tourists resulting from improved transportation accessibility.

Vehicle parking navigation (Hyundai AutoEver). Provided by Donghae City

The city expects that the introduction of the service will improve parking convenience, ease traffic congestion by reducing aimless driving, and help cut carbon emissions, and it plans to gradually expand the scope of application in the future.

Lee Inseop, head of the Safety Division, said, "The establishment of a parking-space-level address system is meaningful in that it realizes a citizen-centered smart transportation service," adding, "Based on the demonstration results, we will enhance the completeness of the service and continuously expand its scope of application."

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