The disclosure describes systems and methods that are configured to measure and generate parking environment data including locations of parking spaces and their occupancy status, and to use the parking environment data to find an unoccupied parking space for a vehicle. In particular, a system is configured to determine the location and occupancy status of parking spaces based on parking environment data received from a vehicle, and to determine a location of an unoccupied parking space based on a database of parking environment data.

A parking facility management server for a parking facility, including a communication interface, which is designed to receive a request via a communication network from a user of the communication network to carry out at least one vehicle-specific service for a vehicle in the parking facility, and a processor, which is designed to process the request, in order to check whether or not the at least one service may be carried out in the parking facility for the vehicle in accordance with the request, the processor being further designed to ascertain a response as a function of the check. The communication interface further being designed to transmit the response via the communication network back to the user, the processor further being designed to plan and to coordinate the carrying out of the service in the event of a positive response that at least one service may be carried out.

A parking lot free parking space predicting method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium are provided. The method comprises: building a parking lot association graph for parking lots in a region to be processed; aggregating environment context features of neighboring parking lots according to weights of edges between the neighboring parking lots and a parking lot i to obtain a representation vector of the parking lot i at a current time; and pre-training a graph attention neural network model using the environment context features of the neighboring parking lots and free parking space information, and a gated recurrent neural model according to the representation vector of the parking lot it at the current time.

A parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a sunlight state of a parking space in a parking lot, and a notification device that notifies at least one of a vehicle including a solar power generation function and a user of the parking lot of the sunlight state of each parking space detected by the infrastructure sensor.

A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.

A system can include: a detector configured to provide input information; an electric vehicle; an electric vehicle charger; and a cloud server configured to execute a Simultaneous Parking and Charging Management (SPCM) method based on the input information, and communicate with the electric vehicle to assign a time for a certain electric vehicle charger based on a result of the executed SPCM method.

A method for managing parking spaces for vehicles, which spaces are located in a geographical area and are associated with a controller, configured to allocate one or more parking characteristics to said spaces, the method including collection and storage of historical navigation data of identified vehicles and/or of identified drivers, statistical analysis of said stored data to predict the use of the spaces by the identified vehicles and/or the identified drivers, and modification of one or more parking characteristics allocated by the controller according to predicted space use.

Systems and apparatuses for receiving data from a plurality of sensors and using the data, as well as other data, to generate a parking recommendation for an autonomous vehicle and instruct the autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location are provided. Data may be received from a plurality of sensors within a first autonomous vehicle, as well as from other vehicles and/or structures. Historical parking data associated with the first autonomous vehicle may also be extracted. In some examples, an expected future trip of the first autonomous vehicle may be determined. The system may then evaluate the data to generate a parking recommendation for the first autonomous vehicle. The system may generate and transmit instructions for traveling from a current location to the recommended parking location and may cause the first autonomous vehicle to travel to the recommended parking location.

Methods and systems for autonomous vehicle recharging or refueling are disclosed. Autonomous vehicles may be automatically refueled by routing the vehicles to available fueling stations when not in operation, according to methods described herein. A fuel level within a tank of an autonomous vehicle may be monitored until it reaches a refueling threshold, at which point an on-board computer may generate a predicted use profile for the vehicle. Based upon the predicted use profile, a time and location for the vehicle to refuel the vehicle may be determined. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be controlled to automatically travel to a fueling station, refill a fuel tank, and return to its starting location in order to refuel when not in use.

The present invention relates to a method for reporting an electric car charging space in a parking lot, the method comprising: identifying whether a charger of each of charging spaces in a parking lot is being used; identifying whether a car exists in each of the charging spaces; and selecting a chargeable space and reporting the selected chargeable space.