The Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) is planning to commission robots to streamline parking facility at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). BIAL is the operator of KIA and wants to introduce remote car parking facility at the airport that will include a hydraulic lift. This lift will pick up the vehicles at the parking bay’s entry point and move it in the parking as per the availability of the space.
Remote Parking Facility To Make Parking Effective
The remote parking facility has already been adopted by several airports across the world and is one of the most effective ways of managing parking slots as it helps to stack more number of vehicles in limited parking space. The system takes help of robots to park the cars who quite efficiently park the cars in compact spaces unlike human drivers because the robots do not need to go inside and come out of the car to park it.
BIAL has already asked for a Request For Quotation (RFQ) for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of this Car Park Management System that enables Remote Car Parking Facility. The operators are also on the lookout for a contractor who has the experience and expertise to install this new Remote Car Parking Facility in airports across the world.
Reports say that the proposed remote car park facility will accommodate around 1,600 car parking slots. The RFQ states, “As part of the above program, it has been decided to take up the construction of Remote car Parking facility consisting of approximate 1600 Nos car park slots.”
Proposed Parking Facility Expected To Accommodate Increased Load
The proposed parking facility is expected to accommodate the increased load that is currently being felt by the car parking P4 and P6 after P3 and P1 parking facilities were relocated as they fell in the footprint of the upcoming Terminal (T2) forecourt work of development. Currently, the KIA parking area has the capacity to accommodate around 2,000 vehicles.
Terminal 2 is being constructed by BIAL to satisfy the growing demands and is being built in two phases. Its first phase covers 2,55,000 square meters and will serve 25 million passengers per annum (MPPA) whereas the second phase of the Terminal 2 is still in pipeline and will be built for another 20 MPPA.
The RFQ also says that the contractor will have to develop a ticket dispensing tower, loop detectors, automatic boom barrier with RFID apart from smooth integration of car park management system with the existing park management system for automobiles.
