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With the quick growth of the economy, owning a car is not a big deal, but finding a parking spot has become a puzzle. Everybody wants to own and drive their car, and it is this mindset that has caused the parking space crisis.

Finding a parking space is often a frustrating routine activity for many people in Indian cities. This search burns a lot of fuel every day. As the nation’s population continues to urbanize, without a thoughtfully-planned, convenience-driven parking solution, these problems will continue to worsen.

Smart parking is the first step on the right path towards improving this condition. It involves using sensors to collect data in real-time to track the number of free or occupied parking spaces. Fully-automated parking systems can also accurately predict where parkers will likely find a spot. When the multilevel systems are installed, they reduce car emissions in urban centers by reducing the chances/attempts for people to needlessly roam around the area searching for parking. It also permits city planners and architects to carefully plan buildings and their parking spaces.

When we consider all car parking facilities worldwide, such as parking garages and parking lots, we can understand what impact they cause to the environment.

Vehicles driving in and out of and encircling around looking for free parking spaces in large parking facilities generate greenhouse gases in a huge amount. A kilometer driven inside a parking lot is much more fuel-inefficient and produces more greenhouse gases than driving a kilometer on a regular road. But, we can change this.

Even if we assume that cars generate lesser greenhouse gases, most parking facilities require significant amounts of electricity. Though indirectly, electric power generation plays a role in climate change. Conventional outdoor or indoor parking lots require outdoor lighting, may also require elevators and large fans for ventilation. But, we can change this.

Yes, we can change this. There are alternatives to conventional car parking spaces that have a lesser negative impact on the environment. They eliminate the need to drive excessively inside parking lots and can use less electricity than traditional parking spaces in many situations. The alternatives are multilevel parking systems.

In addition to lending convenience and environmental benefits, smart parking improves the utilization of existing parking, leading to greater revenue for parking owners.

Cities can turn to sustainable parking through multilevel parking solutions, which have significant environmental benefits including a significantly reduced carbon footprint.

Other benefits include reduced pollution and waste. When car engines are turned off during parking and retrieval, it reduces emissions by up to 80%. A smaller footprint reduces the need for excavation, reducing cost and construction schedule. This greatly reduces overall waste generation. As multilevel parking systems are constructed from standardized material, it generates minimal waste. Their robust design and construction also require minimum parts change.

KLAUS multilevel parking systems provide high returns while being an environmentally-friendly solution to the growing scarcity and cost of urban space. The broad range of products and services means that KLAUS Multiparking has a parking solution for virtually any location, issue, and requirement.

KLAUS Multiparking provides various types of multiparking systems based on hydraulics. KLAUS Multiparking offers Dependent and Independent Stack Parking Systems, Puzzle Parking Systems, and Fully-automatic Parking Systems. These multilevel parking systems provide many avenues for saving space, construction cost, electricity. KLAUS Multiparking also allows parkers to park in and park out very quickly. Other benefits include security of the cars, reduced air pollution, and very little maintenance. KLAUS multilevel parking systems are reliable, safe, and extremely user-friendly. Other than state-of-the-art multilevel parking systems, KLAUS Multiparking also offers efficient multilevel parking systems repair and maintenance facilities.

Your parking space has a significant impact on how your visitors or customers perceive you and your space. Considering this, looking after your multilevel parking systems becomes crucial.

Multilevel parking systems are a collection of complex electrical, mechanical & hydraulic components, so they require regular attention as time passes. Their exposure to the outdoor elements, dirt, smoke, and oil from cars causes deterioration to some extent. Without proper maintenance, damages on multilevel parking systems can eventually hinder the vehicles trying to park there and cause other problems such as:

• Costly breakdowns
• Decreased system lifespan
• Increased cost of ownership

Regular maintenance by experts results in your multilevel parking system being in the best condition. Through frequent inspections, any large or small damage to it can be rectified at an initial stage, subsequently increasing its life. Other reasons to ensure maintenance of your multilevel parking systems are – reduced liabilities, enhanced safety, time-saving, etc. Creating a safer parking space is critical for protecting end-users and their vehicles.

Just like cars, if multilevel parking systems are also periodically checked and maintained by professional technicians, any damage to your esteemed property can be avoided. A well-maintained multilevel parking system will help retain the happiness of your customers by ensuring the safety of their vehicles.

We at KLAUS Multiparking have a team of skilled professionals that undergo various trainings at every level to deliver quality and prompt service in case of any KLAUS multilevel parking system failure. We are quick and highly responsive when it comes to serving our customers. Our team has been consistently providing excellent servicing and maintenance to all our customers based out of different cities in India.

Why KLAUS Maintenance?

• Original spare parts available
• 24X7 customer service
• Quick turnaround time
• Trained technicians and repair experts
• Nationwide service

We offer two levels of maintenance contract to suit the needs of each customer and their specific project:

KLAUS Comprehensive Annual Maintenance Contract

• A specific number of visits to sites at equal intervals during the AMC period
• Certain spare parts are replaced at no extra cost

KLAUS Non-Comprehensive Annual Maintenance Contract

• A specific number of visits to sites at equal intervals during the AMC period
• Spare parts are replaced at specified costs

KLAUS Multiparking also offers a mod kit that perfectly understands the needs of your multilevel parking system.

KLAUS mod kit comprises of the following kits:

• Safety Kit: KLAUS safety kit improves end-users & car safety.
• Add-on Kit: KLAUS add-on kit provides additional comfort, ease of operation, and improved park in/park out experience.
• Signage Kit: KLAUS signage kit creates awareness amongst end-users through visual signs.
• Cleaning Kit: KLAUS cleaning kit ensures a long life, aesthetics, and hygiene.

When it comes to multilevel parking system repair, our top priority is to come to your aid as quickly, as well, and as cost-effectively as possible.

With our unique understanding of our products and a detailed database of information and installation, maintenance, and repair history of all systems, we efficiently resolve your issue in no time. We essentially use original spare parts, ensuring authenticity. Our technicians are skilled and easily accessible.

KLAUS Workshop On Wheels is a fully-equipped service van with a trained repair person, tooling, and spares that reaches your location in no time to resolve your query.

We advise our customers to get their KLAUS multilevel parking systems serviced only by authorized KLAUS Multiparking technicians rather than unauthorized agencies, to avoid any complications. We also request our customers to meticulously follow Dos and Don’ts instructions mentioned at the site to keep the multilevel parking systems healthy.

Our customers’ words of appreciation over the years are a testimony to the KLAUS team’s dedication and attention to detail. It encourages us to consistently provide you with innovative parking solutions.

India’s real estate sector has documented an unexpectedly strong resilience against the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite challenges, the sector bounced back quickly with innovative practices and digital interventions. Now more than ever, property and real estate developers are integrating multilevel parking systems into their new, ongoing, and redevelopment projects to address various parking issues including vehicle safety and end-user convenience. This step also addresses project feasibility and profitability on their end.

By automatizing and streamlining the entire car parking process, multilevel parking systems prove to be an ideal parking solution, especially at projects where there is a high level of vehicular footfall.

Following are some ways in which multilevel parking systems can benefit property developers:

Efficient Land Use

Multilevel parking systems take up significantly lesser area and volume than conventional parking options. This enables the more profitable and efficient use of valuable land, especially in city areas. Multilevel parking systems allow property developers to utilize the vertical space and maximize the number of existing parking spaces.

Optimized Parking

The design flexibility of multilevel parking systems allows them to fit in areas where other parking solutions are unfeasible. Such locations are often inside, under, or between existing infrastructure or sometimes horizontally or vertically asymmetrically-shaped spaces. Using otherwise unusable space for parking is another way a multilevel parking system helps improve profitability.

Cost Savings

We often consider that multilevel parking systems and their maintenance cost more than traditional garages, which is overly simplistic and frequently incorrect. Multilevel parking systems can cost significantly, but in the long run, they are beneficial. They cannot be considered a direct replacement for conventional car parking garages. When multilevel parking systems are incorporated into primary designs, it can significantly shift the capital cost and project profitability for the better.

Sustainable and Green Buildings

Multilevel parking systems offer multiple benefits over traditional parking garages when it comes to sustainable design and operation. They allow more green spaces, result in lesser emissions and reduce overall carbon footprint.

Inherent Safety for Vehicles

Multilevel parking systems are designed and built in a way to provide complete safety to the vehicles parked and their drivers. Safety doors and other security measures leave almost zero chances of theft and vandalism. Well-lit sites, highly visible entry/exit booths offer a higher degree of personal safety. This all can result in increased profitability for the site.

Prompt Design and Construction

Multilevel parking systems manufacturers and providers have a dedicated team to analyze the construction site and design a multilevel parking system accordingly, which results in faster and better construction. This leads to reduced construction costs and a faster start of revenue generation.

Considering these factors, property developers and construction giants have now started opting for multilevel parking systems over traditional parking spaces in their residential as well as commercial projects to maximize their profitability and provide sufficient parking. Multilevel parking systems have a promising future in India.

KLAUS Multiparking is a globally-appreciated multilevel parking system manufacturer and provider. KLAUS Multiparking uses advanced German engineering to design multilevel parking systems, that provide utmost security and reliability to end-users. KLAUS Multiparking offers multiple variants such as dependent/independent stack parking systems, puzzle parking systems, and fully-automatic parking systems. These options provide property developers a broad array of advantages.

Salient features of KLAUS multiparking systems:

• One global quality
• Lowest cost of operation
• Can be easily customized
• Space-effective installation
• Easy maintenance
• Reliable operation

With Corporate Office at Pune and Regional Offices at Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, since its inception, KLAUS Multiparking has designed, installed, and maintained many multilevel parking systems across many states in India. Our huge customer base recognizes us as a reliable and efficient parking partner.

A world where all-electric vehicles (or EVs) dominate the roads is still a dream.

Major car manufacturers in India are also gearing up to announce the launch of electric cars as well as two-wheelers. The Indian government also aims to make our roads free of petrol and diesel cars in the near future.

Electric vehicles, sometimes referred to as EVs, are set to be the next most preferred vehicle, but what does this mean for a consumer?

Most of us don’t own electric cars, but now’s the time to start thinking about how they are going to bring about social and environmental changes.

Advantages of electric vehicles:

• No fuel, no emissions

EVs can help you decrease your personal impact on the environment through transport. No petrol or diesel is required in a fully electric vehicle, which lowers your carbon footprint.

• Low running costs

Petrol and diesel prices in India are increasing regularly. An EV can help you save on these costs compared to their fossil-fuel counterparts.

• Low maintenance

Petrol and diesel engines can require expensive engine maintenance while electric vehicles do not need frequent maintenance.

• Good performance

As more EV manufacturers are entering the market and providing competitive pricing performance, EVs will soon be a common sight.

As more EVs find their way onto our roads, we will see the supporting infrastructure expand. However, an increasing number of EVs will need more EV charging stations. With the swift rise in demand for electric vehicles, EV manufacturers are focusing on long-range battery vehicles and investing in enhancing the EV charging infrastructure. Setting up charging stations in places where the vehicle is going to be for longer periods of time makes more sense than setting up charging stations at different places. Parking spaces of residential or commercial buildings can be equipped with EV charging points for comfortable charging.

Electric vehicles require compact EV charging solutions that ensure faster and on-demand charging and robust connectivity to support electric vehicles’ current and future needs. In practical terms, this means EV battery recharging needs to be automatic, convenient, and faster than it currently is. Today’s hand-operated battery recharging process requires drivers to park at available recharging stations and physically connect their EV to a large electrical cable. Once plugged in, the recharging process can take hours to complete, which effectively means a loss of time and efficiency.

KLAUS Multiparking has acknowledged that electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, the demand for electric charging is growing daily. That demand will almost undoubtedly inflate prices. Considering this, it may be wisest for the consumers to invest in EV charging stations now, before prices increase.

As the global leader in providing cutting-edge parking solutions, we are exploring the possibilities and opportunities to integrate EV charging capability into our multilevel parking systems. We are currently able to provide and integrate EV charging as part of our accessory range. As an innovative multilevel parking system manufacturer, we are also exploring other ways to provide our end-users with simpler ways to charge their EVs while they are parked on our multilevel parking systems.

EV charging stations represent an important move towards building futuristic transportation infrastructure. In order for EVs to gain wider approval, their charging has to become more convenient and efficient and KLAUS Multiparking has taken a huge step towards that by making them available with multilevel parking systems.

As part of its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, India will seek to reduce its carbon footprint by 33-35 percent by 2030. A large portion of these emissions is contributed by vehicles and the increased focus on electric vehicles (EV) is an effort towards reducing this contribution.

In order to achieve this target, Electric Vehicles and making them common is being considered a significant solution. But what are electric vehicles and how do they work?

EVs run on one or more electric motors powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Just like electric devices, EVs need to plug into an external power source for charging after being used.

We can assume that just like petrol/diesel pumps, a network of charging stations will be required to give EVs access to power for the road. Because EVs do not rely on fossil fuels, they do not emit any carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), which hugely reduces air pollution as well as decrease our reliance on fossil fuels.

Here’s how EV charging contributes to our goal:

Reduced emissions and smoke:

Traditional engines utilize the combustion of gasoline or diesel which creates energy by generating harmful carbon emissions. Full electric vehicles do not require a tailpipe as their batteries don’t generate any emissions.

Cleaner production:

While electric vehicles may not contribute much to air pollution while on the road, the production of their batteries involved emissions in the past. However, manufacturers of EVs are now mindful of the carbon footprint of production and are setting regulations for manufacturing.

Lesser maintenance:

Conventional engines generate a fair amount of smoke and have significant wear and tear as compared to electric vehicles, saving greatly on maintenance and repair costs.

Reduced noise pollution:

EVs are almost noiseless or generate lesser noise while on the road than their conventional fossil fuel counterparts. This can lead to lesser noise pollution in crowded areas in urban and semi-urban cities.

For India, clean auto technology takes the central stage in its strategy to reduce fossil-fuel dependence and diminish air pollution in its major cities. With millions of petrol or diesel-powered vehicles being driven around the world, greenhouse emissions continue to be a threat. While this is continuing to deteriorate the environment around us, shifting to EVs that are powered by renewable energy may help us maintain a neutral carbon footprint and reduce air pollution to a great level.

Electric vehicles are seeing a boost in India and KLAUS Multiparking is supporting this transition with its new product – EV Charging Point. KLAUS EV Charging Point enables you to charge your electric cars while they are parked on the platforms of our multiparking systems.

KLAUS Multiparking offers EV Charging Points with its multilevel parking solutions (add-on) which offer the end-user comfort to charge their EV while it’s parked. This saves time and effort to look for charging points outside. People can charge their EVs overnight at residential buildings, workplaces, commercial buildings, and even public places like malls.

The unprecedented increase in the number of personal vehicles and the unorganized road infrastructure have made the cities a hub of overcrowding, traffic congestion, and general unease of parking. This makes parking provision a critical aspect of transportation and town planning. The scarcity of parking spaces in metropolitan cities is resulting in an essential need to find a parking solution to reduce traffic congestion, especially around airports, railway stations, commercial hubs, stadiums, large hospitals, and shopping centers, etc.

Because of the unavailability of planned parking spaces, on-street parking is a prevalent phenomenon in almost all Indian cities, small or big. Not just commercial or transport hubs, several residential areas often face parking scarcity where daily footfall is in several thousand.

Many cars and two-wheelers are seen parked on either side of the roads. Odd-even parking system might have provided a temporary solution to overcome the challenges of overcrowded roads, but people are often seen diverting from the set parking rules, due to the unavailability of safe parking spaces. This greatly reduces the capacity of the road and poses dangers to pedestrians and two-wheeler riders alike.

A lot of researchers have focused on the visual complexity caused by on-street parking and its effect on drivers’ mental states. On-street parking increases the chances of crash risk. On-street parking tends to complicate the entire landscape for drivers, which may affect their perspective and cause crashes. One important reason for risen crash risk is narrowed road width. Parked vehicles leave insufficient space for moving vehicles, pushing them to drive closer to vehicles in the next lane. Researchers have found that clean and organized roads or the absence of extra cards on the sides positively reduces drivers’ mental stress and helps them focus on the road clearly.

While the Indian government is trying to decongest urban roads through the creation of good public transportation, there are restrictions to what difference public transportation can make in Indian cities. Because private vehicles are still a preferred mode of transportation for a lot of Indians, it is imperative to find alternate parking solutions to resolve the issue of road congestions and on-street parking.

Here automated multilevel car parking systems, which utilize vertical space in an efficient way, would provide relief. Although being present in India for a significant time, multilevel car parking systems remain one of the most underutilized parking solutions. Multilevel car parking systems help overcome parking space constraints and regulate traffic flow, reducing the stress on roads.

Multilevel car parking systems are capable of accommodating hundreds and sometimes thousands of cars. Depending on the size, capacity, and type of multilevel car parking systems, they can definitely serve as a reliable parking solution at sites that have medium or high daily footfall.

Due to the use of multilevel car parking systems, traffic flow improves as fewer cars are required to drive around in search of parking. Vehicles are parked safely in the multilevel car parking systems, reducing on-street parking and ultimately reducing crash risk.

KLAUS Multiparking, since its inception in India in 2002, has been contributing significantly to decongest Indian urban roads through its state-of-the-art multilevel car parking solutions. Here are a few of KLAUS Multiparking’s notable achievements in India:

• Presence: 6 regional offices and 150+ resident representatives across 53 Indian cities
• Projects completed: 1000+
• Number of car spaces provided across India: 80,000+ car spaces
• Largest dedicated manufacturing facility in India spread over: 20000 sq. m
• Annual capacity: 18000 parking spaces

KLAUS Multiparking designs, builds and installs multiparking systems that not only optimize the utilization of available space but also improve the user-friendliness, safety, and reliability of the parking process. KLAUS Multiparking specializes in dependent and independent stack parking systems, semi-automatic puzzle parking systems, and fully automatic premium parking systems. Along with these hi-tech products, KLAUS Multiparking also offers 24x7x365 maintenance and service facility – Workshop on Wheels. With strong German engineering as its foundation and superior make in India, KLAUS Multiparking is changing the parking scenario in India, one system at a time.

Today’s rapid urbanization, increasing number of vehicles and parking space crunch arising due to that have led to the rising popularity of automated car parking systems across the world. Automated car parking systems work on the concept of multi-level parking, where cars are stacked on multiple levels in grids to maximize the number of parking spaces while utilizing the available space in the best possible way.

Contrary to popular opinions, automated car parking systems are not a recent phenomenon. The first version of automated car parking systems appeared in Europe in the early 1900s and in North America in the 1920s. Since then, maximum space and land utilization have remained their goals.

The earliest use of an automated car parking systems can be found in Paris, France in 1905 at the Garage Rue de Ponthieu. The structure included a lift in the center to move up cars one or two levels and there were attendants on each floor to park them.

In the 1920s, a Ferris wheel-like structure called the ‘Paternoster system’ was built to park eight cars in the space of two cars. The structure soon became popular because it was user-friendly and utilized the land wisely.

In 1951, Washington D.C. witnessed its first driver-less parking garage. but the system was characterized by frequent mechanical problems and a long retrieval period. This led to a drop in the demand for automated car parking systems in the USA.

However, automated car parking systems continued to be a preferred parking solution in the other parts of the world including Korea, Japan, and parts of Europe. Advanced automated car parking systems were being designed and installed in Europe, Asia, Central America, and Japan. The concept was very well-received in Japan.

In India, the automated car parking systems entered comparatively late. The country’s first automated car parking system was inaugurated in 2007.

KLAUS Multiparking was one of the first entrants to the automated parking industry in India in 2002, when very few developers or architects were aware of the technically advanced automated car parking systems. But KLAUS Multiparking navigated successfully through all the uncertainties and delivered great projects initially in Bangalore and Mumbai, leading to a strong foundation of trust and expertise.

In the last five years, there has been tremendous growth in both commercial and residential segments and KLAUS Multiparking has grown multifold to support the country’s parking requirement.

KLAUS Multiparking offers the widest range of products ranging from stack parking systems, puzzle parking systems to premium fully-automated parking systems. The KLAUS team guides developers and architects from the early stages of planning to ensure the most suitable parking system is incorporated into the building plan to maximize space utilization.

Considering India’s complex and dense mobility network, the country needs a well-planned focused approach in terms of managing parking spaces. It is high time that India adapts to the pace at which the world is embracing various types of automated car parking systems. With the arrival of EVs, automated car parking systems are also becoming integrated charging hubs of EVs. With the current Government’s focus on infrastructure development, India seems to be the right time frame for transitioning towards a smart parking country. All we need to do is to understand the benefits of the automated parking technology and adapt it to control the increasing chaotic mobility network thriving on Indian roads.

It is truly time to make the manual and unreliable parking lots history and move towards futuristic and reliable automated car parking systems. KLAUS Multiparking is all set to help you make this transition.

Cities everywhere are matchmakers. They match workers with jobs, students with education services, citizens with health services, and people with people. All this needs space. Cities are expanding at a rapid pace and to accommodate the increasing urban population, cities need to think bigger.

Today, cities are acquiring the capabilities and responsibilities to form, define and stimulate national economic and social growth. To maximize their impact, it is important they are decongested, comfortable, and appropriately planned.

In overcrowded urban areas in India that face a scarcity of space, drivers often have no option but to park on roads or in spaces reserved for other uses or sometimes even on sidewalks. This shortens available space, hindering the free flow of traffic and raising the probability of road accidents.

How can cities overcome the challenge of insufficient space for parking? A feasible parking solution is to construct multilevel parking systems by employing vertical space to correct use rather than utilizing horizontal space.

What are multilevel parking systems?

The concept of multilevel parking is quite old, but it gained momentum in recent years due to rapid urbanization and the increasing crunch of parking space due to that. In simple terms, a multilevel parking system is a semi-automatic or fully-automatic parking facility that allows many cars to be parked on various levels. The thought behind building a multilevel building is to optimize the existing car parking space and utilize vertical space that is widely available in cities.

What are the types of multilevel parking systems?

Multilevel parking systems come in variable sizes according to the building’s parking requirements. However, they are widely categorized as dependent/independent stack parking systems, semi-automatic puzzle parking systems, and fully automatic parking systems which further include lift & shuttle, tower parking systems.

How can multilevel parking systems benefit Indian cities?

Multilevel parking systems can ensure optimum space utilization as multiple cars can be parked in the same amount of space. They are characterized by lower installation, maintenance, and operational costs. Multilevel parking systems help reduce CO2 emissions as users don’t need to drive around to find a parking spot. Multilevel parking systems operate at low dB levels and therefore are noiseless. One of the most crucial benefits of multilevel parking systems is that by parking in specified areas, cars are parked appropriately and safely, roads are decongested, reducing traffic congestion. There is more space left for public spaces, gardens, and amenities. Multilevel parking systems are already being used at many buildings in India such as metro stations, shopping centers, commercial hubs, and residential buildings.

KLAUS Multiparking is an originally Germany-based multilevel parking systems designer, manufacturer, and installer. KALUS multiparking systems are ingenious parking solutions that offer users ultimate safety, comfort, and a very easy parking experience.

KLAUS products range from dependent and independent stack parking systems, semi-automatic puzzle parking systems to premium fully-automatic parking systems.

As the space in urban and semi-urban areas becomes more limited, traditional parking garages or lots are proving to be unsafe and time-consuming. Multilevel parking systems are a parking solution that is feasible, secure, and convenient. Such advanced systems need to replace conventional parking lots to ensure optimum utilization of urban spaces and make way for the growing population.

The ever-growing population of India has created many difficulties – one of the challenging ones being car parking which we confront almost every day. Besides the problem of space for cars moving on the road, greater is the problem of space for the cars that remain parked for most of their time. Roads are being built for mobility, but do we have enough space to park the cars? While residential projects are still designed with keeping in mind the parking requirements, the real problem lies with commercial spaces – many a time which is solved by parking on the road or taking up extra open spaces.

Multilevel Parking systems, for some time, have provided relief since they come with a number of advantages – maximum utilization of the available space, lower maintenance and operational costs, reliable and environment-friendly nature, comfortable for end-users, etc.

Multilevel parking systems are normally installed in commercial establishments, complexes, malls, multiplex, residential apartments, hospitals, hotels wherever there is a critical shortage of parking space. The suitable parking system type and dimensions need to be analyzed in the planning stage of the building. Proper planning combined with the best feasible solutions can work wonders for the buildings which have a huge footfall, and thus scarcity of parking spaces.

Even though multilevel parking systems are gaining momentum in Indian cities, it is expected that it will take some time for people to absorb the technology and understand the advantages. There are various types of parking systems and users are going through a learning process to find out the best possible systems. Here are some of the broad categories:

Stack Parking Systems:

Stack parking systems are multilevel parking systems that stack one or more vehicles one above the other. The stack parking systems stacks cars above or below the ground or combination of both in a parking space. This allows proper utilization of vertical space in parking areas that would normally go unused and park two or more cars in a space that would normally fit only one car. Stack parking systems achieve this with moving platforms that can be raised or lowered. Cars can be parked on the platforms and continue to be stored on them safely as operators lift them to make space for more cars to park below. Stack parking systems can be further divided into – dependent and independent stack parking systems.

Puzzle Parking Systems (Semi-automatic Parking Systems):

Semi-automatic or puzzle parking systems are multilevel parking systems where access to any platform is at ground level by default. Users have to park a car manually on a platform. Once the car is settled, the system checks that it has been properly parked with the help of sensors. The platforms are raised/lowered and moved horizontally to transport the vehicle at desired position. Puzzle parking systems often come in many variations of size, capacity, and type.

Fully-automatic Parking Systems:

Fully-automatic parking systems are multilevel parking systems that do not need any manual help to park a car within them first before activating. The user only needs to interact with the system through operator panel located at the parking area’s entry room. From there, the system takes over, moving the car and finding a suitable spot for it. Fully-automatic parking systems come in various types such as Tower Parking Systems, Multilevel Circulation, Lift & Shuttle System, Quad Vario (Chess) System, and many more.

KLAUS Multiparking specializes in designing, manufacturing, and installing high-quality stack parking systems, puzzle parking systems, and fully-automatic parking systems with a variety of options for architects and builders to choose from. KLAUS Multiparking has introduced many state-of-the-art multilevel parking systems in major cities across India, which is enabling drivers to ease the task of parking. KLAUS multilevel parking systems take less retrieval time, are affordable and environment-friendly since they fit more cars in the footprint of one car. Other advantages include a shorter construction time and a 24x7x365 servicing facility.

In India, the concept of multilevel parking is still restricted to large cities. However, we at KLAUS Multiparking are striving towards making multilevel parking systems a common parking solution in suburban areas which are facing parking challenges as they grow.

The World Air Quality report by IQAir, released recently, states that 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities globally are in India. The report also placed India as a country with third worst air quality out of 106 countries in 2020.

Even though sources of India’s air pollution include biomass burning for cooking, electricity generation, industry, construction, waste & agricultural burning, one of the major causes remains transportation. It is now critical to find ways to reduce the pollution caused by transportation.

In India, a lot of vehicles have to drive around unnecessarily to find a parking spot, which contributes a great deal to the emission of pollutant gases in urban and semi-urban areas. Due to the increasing population, Indian roads are becoming more and more polluted because of a lot of vehicles being on move at all times.

The phenomenon of traffic congestion is not limited to metropolitan cities alone but is quite visible in smaller cities as well. Even within a city, there are specific areas which especially face the problem of traffic jams resulting in a huge burning of fossil fuels. To avoid this unnecessary search for a parking slot and prevent fuel wastage, multilevel parking systems can be a useful solution.

The multilevel parking also indirectly supports the government’s mission of encouraging electric vehicles to reduce the pollution levels in Indian cities and make them more sustainable in near future. A multilevel parking system can easily offer electric charging points and that too at a cost that may further encourage people to use electric vehicles. Thus, if we are to move towards electric mobility as much as we can, multilevel parking can be at the foundation of the infrastructure. It will make Indian cities cleaner by physically decongesting them as well as promoting cleaner means of transportation.

A multilevel parking system benefits the environment in many ways. Here are a few of them:

• More green spaces — Urban green spaces improve surrounding property values as well as actively help to improve air quality in the urban environment. A multilevel parking system stores the same number of cars in a portion of the space required by other traditional parking spaces, leaving more space for urban greenery space.
• Efficient and usage – Multilevel parking can be built in almost all kinds of spaces. This allows for more efficient urban land use – a crucial component of sustainable city planning and development.
• Reduced embodied energy — As a multilevel parking system is more compact than a traditional parking structure, it requires fewer resources to build and maintain.
• Fewer emissions — The slower vehicles run; the more is their emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses. In traditional urban parking, drivers have to search for a space to park and navigate through long parking rows. Multilevel parking systems can reduce emissions by 20-30 percent while saving drivers the frustration of city parking.
• Better urban air quality — Reduced emissions also mean reduced smoke released from vehicle exhaust that results in cleaner and breathable cities.

Are you looking for sustainable parking solutions?

KLAUS Multiparking is a prominent name in the parking industry, which is present in all the major cities across India. KLAUS Multiparking’s multilevel parking solutions can help you battle and sustainably overcome your parking issues. Furthermore, KLAUS multiparking systems come in variety of options to choose from such as: Dependent or Independent Stack Parking Systems, Puzzle Parking or Semi-Automatic Parking Systems, and Fully-Automatic Parking Systems. These systems can also be chosen in combinations, leaving you with the freedom to choose the most suitable approach in each case. Such variety offers unparalleled performance and and multiple ways to improve operations.

(Statistics Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-air-quality-pollution-7231568/)