EP3035295A1 - System for managing a parking area with non-numbered spaces - Google Patents

Abstract

Parking area management system (61), comprising vehicle detectors (33), payment means (62), payment control means (5) and a processing unit (20). According to the invention, the unit (20) is programmed to: i) detecting a sequence beginning with a first presence signal and terminating with an umpteenth presence signal, received until a first payment signal is received or a final time the sequence, and ii) send a control signal from the moment when: a delay, beginning with the reception of the nth presence signal, has expired, if the unit has received, until the expiry of the predetermined period, a number of payment signals between 0 and (n-1), - the shortest paid duration is expired, if the unit has received n payment signals until the expiry of the period and no absence signal, sent by any of the n detectors, until at the end of the shortest paid term, or - the longest paid duration has expired, if the unit has received n payment signals until the expiry of the period and has received a number of absence signals between 1 and (n - 1), sent by one or other of the n detectors until the expiry of the longest paid period.   

Description

The invention relates to systems for assisting the management of payments of parking fees.

There are two main types of organization of street parking spaces which are a) the organization with limited spaces to a vehicle, marked on the ground and often numbered and b) the free organization where the arriving vehicle takes the available space without worrying about any particular positioning within the band or parking area. The same types of organization will be found when vehicles are placed on the cob or side by side.

For some years now have appeared on the market of autonomous vehicle detectors. Many detectors use the variations in the Earth's magnetic field generated by vehicles as a means of detection. However, this technology finds its limits in the vicinity of tram or metro lines. The document WO 2006/005208 presents a detector to confirm the presence of detected vehicles using a second complementary technology such as infrared laser or ultrasonic waves.

Thus, the combination of these detectors placed in the center of defined spaces allows to know the state of occupancy of the said place and to draw an automatic record of the available places or control the payment of parking fees, the latter may be done on a parking meter associated with these places or by mobile phone. Such a device, disclosed in the document WO 2006/067813 also allows to control the respect of the duration of the right of parking.

To control the availability of unrestricted free parking spaces, it is necessary to place several detectors more closely so that a vehicle can not be between two detectors.

In the case of the delimited places, it is possible to know, for each of the vehicles, the state of the place as well as its occupancy status then its state of the corresponding parking rights, in requiring the entry of the place number on the means of payment which may be a time stamp or a device for payment by mobile phone.

The document WO 2007/025364 describes such a parking management system in an area where the parking spaces are delimited and individually identified by a number. The operation of the system is based on the processing of sequences specific to each parking space. A sequence includes a vehicle presence signal and a payment signal associated with the vehicle presence signal through the number of the place monitored by the detector having detected the presence of the vehicle. The instant from which the processing unit can send a control signal to a control means of the monitored parking space is determined either by the expiration of a pre-recorded duration, beginning on receipt of the presence signal of vehicle, if no payment signal associated with the parking space number has been received before the expiry of this pre-registered period, or by the expiry of the period paid, if the payment signal associated with the number of the place parking was received before the expiry of the pre-registered period.

In other words, the previous document discloses a parking management system according to the preamble of claim 1 by using four types of signals, namely vehicle presence, absence of vehicle, payment of a tax and control. However, an individual control, that is to say place by place, is implemented by means of a fifth type of signal, namely the identification signals of the parking space used. It assumes that the parking spaces are identifiable individually, by means of a number for example.

A system of the same type is disclosed by the document US 2007257818 In particular, this document and the document US 2002109611 disclose parking management systems in which the control uses individual seat identification signals.

In the case of a parking area not delimited by numbered spaces, there is no longer a direct link allowing the geographical connection between a vehicle and a payment. A temporal correlation is only possible in the case without interference indicated below.

Generally, a parking meter controls a parking area whose number of places is limited to a dozen or twenty places. The driver parks first and then pay his fee on the parking meter. It performs these operations before another vehicle is parked again in the same area. Thus, the temporal correlation between the arrival of a vehicle and the payment of the parking fee makes it possible to unambiguously declare a link between the two events. The sequence is unambiguous, that is to say without interference with the arrival of another vehicle before the payment transaction, this in a pre-recorded time.

Starting from a system according to the state of the art recalled in the introduction, one of the aims of the invention is thus to deal with the cases of interference in the management of a parking area where the parking spaces are not identified individually, for example by a number.

1. i) détecter une séquence débutant par un premier signal de présence de véhicule envoyé par un premier détecteur de véhicule et se terminant par un énième signal de présence de véhicule, n étant supérieur ou égal à 2, envoyé par un énième détecteur de véhicule et reçu jusqu'à réception d'un premier signal de paiement ou jusqu'à expiration d'une fenêtre temporelle prédéterminée marquant la fin de la séquence, et
2. ii) envoyer un signal de contrôle au moyen de contrôle :
   1. a) à partir de l'instant où un délai prédéterminé, débutant à la réception du énième signal de présence de véhicule, est expiré, si l'unité de traitement a reçu, jusqu'à l'expiration du délai prédéterminé, un nombre de signaux de paiement compris entre 0 et (n - 1),
   2. b) à partir de l'instant où la durée payée la plus courte est expirée, si l'unité de traitement a reçu n signaux de paiement jusqu'à l'expiration du délai préenregistré, débutant à la réception du énième signal de présence de véhicule, et aucun signal d'absence de véhicule, envoyé par l'un ou l'autre des n détecteurs de véhicule, jusqu'à l'expiration de la durée payée la plus courte, ou
   3. c) à partir de l'instant où la durée payée la plus longue est expirée, si l'unité de traitement a reçu n signaux de paiement jusqu'à l'expiration du délai prédéterminé, débutant à la réception du énième signal de présence de véhicule, et un nombre de signaux d'absence de véhicule compris entre 1 et (n - 1), envoyés par l'un ou l'autre des n détecteurs de véhicule, jusqu'à l'expiration de la durée payée la plus longue.

For this purpose, the subject of the invention is a vehicle parking management system, comprising vehicle detectors arranged in a parking zone to monitor parking spaces, a means of payment of a tax in relation to a duration parking means, means for controlling the periods of time and a processing unit in connection with the detectors, the means of payment and the control means, characterized in that the processing unit is programmed to:

1. i) detecting a sequence beginning with a first vehicle presence signal sent by a first vehicle detector and ending with an umpteenth vehicle presence signal, n being greater than or equal to 2, sent by a nth vehicle detector and received until a first payment signal is received or until a predetermined time window marking the end of the sequence expires, and
2. ii) send a control signal to the control means:
   1. a) from the moment when a predetermined time, beginning on receipt of the umpteenth vehicle presence signal, has expired, if the processing unit has received, until the expiry of the predetermined time, a number of payment signals between 0 and (n - 1),
   2. b) from the moment when the shortest paid period has expired, if the processing unit has received n payment signals until the expiry of the pre-recorded period, starting on receipt of the umpteenth presence signal of vehicle, and no vehicle absence signal, sent by any of the n vehicle detectors, until the expiry of the shortest paid period, or
   3. c) from the moment when the longest paid period has expired, if the processing unit has received n payment signals until the expiry of the predetermined period, beginning on receipt of the umpteenth presence signal of vehicle, and a number of vehicle absence signals between 1 and (n - 1), sent by one or the other of the n vehicle detectors, until the expiry of the longest paid duration .

The contribution of the present invention thus consists in creating a link between a vehicle and a payment by seeking and analyzing the temporal correlation between the moment of arrival on a parking zone, given by vehicle presence detectors, and the moment when the motorist pays the parking fee.

In case a), there is no correlation. The payment is made at best only for the (n - 1) vehicles or takes place, for the n vehicles, later than the expiration of the pre-recorded time. From the expiry of the pre-registered period, it is appropriate to send the security guards to ascertain, by means of tickets placed behind the windshields or, where applicable, the registration numbers, the security guards. , both or even n vehicles in violation.

In case b) or c), the correlation between the arrival of one, two or even n vehicles and the payment of the parking fee is ambiguous. A second vehicle or even another vehicle arrives before a first payment corresponding to the first vehicle has been made in the pre-recorded time, even if arrival and payment have been made, for each vehicle, in the predefined time. Correlation is ambiguous while entitlement payments are in order.

The ambiguous correlation information carries a message indicating that, at the expiration of the pre-recorded duration, the vehicles occupying the parking spaces monitored by the two or even the n detectors of the sequence were in good standing with the payment. taxes and may even be recharged where appropriate. This is despite the fact that the vehicles are not located individually but that the occupied spaces are known by the knowledge of the arrangement of the detectors.

More particularly in case b), the sending of the control signal indicates that the shortest paid duration has expired while the parking spaces monitored by the two or even the n vehicle detectors of the sequence are still vehicles detected, which means that the vehicle with the shortest paid duration is in violation.

More particularly in case c), the sending of the control signal indicates that the longest paid duration has expired while at least one of the parking spaces monitored by both, or even the n vehicle detectors of the sequence, is still occupied by one of the vehicles whose presence has been detected, which means that the vehicle (s) still present are in violation, regardless of the duration paid for them.

In case b) or c), it is necessary to send the security agents, equipped with the control means connected to the processing unit, to see for themselves, by means of tickets placed behind the windshields or, where applicable, the number (s) of the infringing vehicle (s), at the end of the shortest or the longest paid period, as the case may be.

The processing unit is thus programmed to monitor the parking spaces of the area in question, treating them not individually but collectively, by means of n detectors of the detected sequence, that is to say the n detectors having sent to the processing unit the first and up to the umpteenth presence signal marking the beginning and the end of the sequence.

Note that the invention deals with the case of long vehicles that touch two adjacent sensors, that is to say, disposed at a distance from each other less than a reference distance. Indeed, the signal of the first sensor having entered a vehicle may be associated with the signal of a second adjacent sensor and reported the presence of the same vehicle within a second predetermined time. This is the reason why it is planned to program the processing unit to perform step i) in the following particular way:

iii) if two presence signals sent by two different vehicle detectors are received by the processing unit within a second predetermined time period, beginning on receipt of each vehicle presence signal, representing the fact that the two detectors are arranged in the parking zone at a distance from each other less than a reference distance, only one of these two signals is considered as a first, a second, or an umpteenth presence signal of the sequence.

It will also be noted that the server may then contain a table in which the cadastral positions of each of the sensors are recorded, which makes it possible to send to the operator, himself equipped with a PDA, the positions of the sensors on which there is a vehicle to control.

The time window whose expiration marks the end of the sequence that the processing unit is programmed to detect is typically 5 minutes. The first pre-recorded time interval typically ranges from a few tens of seconds to a few minutes. The second pre-recorded time interval is of the order of ten seconds. Under these conditions, n will most often be equal to 2 or even 3, but the probability that n is greater than or equal to 4 will remain very low.

It should be noted that the quality of these analyzes depends on the number of vehicles likely to park in the managed parking area and the first and second pre-recorded delays. It should also be noted that a motorist arriving in a given zone can operate, of good payment in an adjacent parking area, which means that adjacent areas must be taken into account.

Thus, the vehicle parking management system is more particularly characterized in that the processing unit is programmed to:

• v) associer un signal d'identification du secteur de stationnement à chaque signal de paiement et
• vi) détecter secteur par secteur la séquence de telle sorte que les n détecteurs de véhicule d'une séquence appartiennent à un même secteur et que le signal de paiement soit associé à un signal d'identification de ce même secteur ou d'un ou d'autres secteurs déterminés.

iv) partition the vehicle detectors in the parking area into different numbered parking areas;

• v) associate a parking area identification signal with each payment signal and
• vi) detecting sector by sector the sequence so that the n vehicle detectors of a sequence belong to the same sector and the payment signal is associated with an identification signal of the same sector or of one or more other specific sectors.

In this embodiment, the processing unit is thus programmed to monitor the parking spaces of the area in question, by treating them collectively on the scale of a sector, by means of n detectors of the sequence, c. that is to say the n detectors having sent to the processing unit the presence signals marking the beginning and the end of the sequence, while allowing the sequence to take into account the payment in the sector where the n detectors are arranged or in an adjacent area.

It should also be noted that this analysis applies whether the payment is made on a parking meter or via a mobile phone, the payments being in the latter case attached to the numbered parking areas.

• La fig. 1 présente un horodateur.
• La fig. 2 présente un détecteur de présence de véhicule.
• La fig. 3 présente un secteur de voirie avec des places de stationnement non délimitées dans une bande de stationnement et avec un horodateur.
• La fig. 4 présente un secteur de voirie avec des places de stationnement non délimitées et avec un moyen de paiement par téléphone portable.
• La fig. 5 présente un secteur de voirie avec des places de stationnement non délimitées et avec un horodateur et un moyen de paiement par téléphone.
• La fig. 6 présente un secteur de voirie avec des places de stationnement non délimitées et organisées en plusieurs ilots ou secteurs marqués sur la chaussée.
• La fig. 7 présente une chaussée dont la zone de stationnement en places non numérotées est divisée en secteurs numérotés.

The figures below represent, without limitation, some embodiments.

• The Fig. 1 presents a time stamp.
• The Fig. 2 presents a vehicle presence detector.
• The Fig. 3 presents a road sector with unresigned parking spaces in a parking lot and with a parking meter.
• The Fig. 4 presents a road sector with parking spaces not delimited and with a means of payment by mobile phone.
• The Fig. 5 has a road sector with unrestricted parking spaces and with a parking meter and a telephone payment method.
• The Fig. 6 presents a road sector with undivided parking spaces organized in several islands or sectors marked on the roadway.
• The Fig. 7 presents a roadway whose parking area in unnumbered spaces is divided into numbered sectors.

Realization of the invention:

The present device involves, Fig. 1 , a time stamp 10 connected to a server or processing unit 20 and provided with conventional elements such as the central unit, the screen and the dialogue keyboard 11, the ticket printer 12, the coin compartment 13, a keyboard 14 on which it is possible to enter a vehicle registration number and a sector number 15 to locate the time stamp geographically.

The Fig. 2 presents a vehicle presence detector 33 which is to be embedded in the ground.

The Fig. 3 presents a road sector with undisclosed parking spaces in the parking band 31. The presence detectors 33 are placed inside the parking band and regularly spaced a distance less than a predefined vehicle length so to detect them. These detectors are connected by radio to the time stamp 34 which is connected by GSM / GPRS link to the server or processing unit 20. Note that the processing unit can be installed in a time stamp assigned to a set of vehicle detectors. The parking spaces are not delimited, nor are they numbered.

The operation is as follows: a vehicle arriving in the area to park generates the sending, to the time stamp, a first arrival signal on a first detector, or a second arrival signal on a second detector, if both vehicle detectors are adjacent. The two arrival signals are then included in a predetermined time interval. If in another pre-recorded time interval a payment operation takes place, then the parking operation is correlated and stored in the processing unit memory.

If, prior to the payment transaction, the registration of the vehicle registration number is required, then the position of the vehicle and its registration number are known. Therefore, it may be proceeded to an administrative follow-up when the time paid for the right to park is exceeded. Similarly, if the refill operations are accepted, they can be followed remotely, insofar as the motorist is asked to enter, at each new recharge, its registration number.

The invention deals with the case where the arrival of a second vehicle is interposed before the receipt of a first payment corresponding to the first or the second vehicle. Such a sequence is detected by the duly programmed processing unit.

• à partir de l'instant où la durée payée la plus courte est expirée, si l'unité de traitement n'a reçu aucun signal d'absence de véhicule, envoyé par l'un ou l'autre des 2 détecteurs de véhicule, jusqu'à l'expiration de la durée payée la plus courte, ou
• à partir de l'instant où la durée payée la plus longue est expirée, si l'unité de traitement a reçu un et un seul signal d'absence de véhicule, envoyé par l'un ou l'autre des 2 détecteurs de véhicule, jusqu'à l'expiration de la durée payée la plus longue.

If, within the pre-recorded period, starting with the reception of the second arrival signal, two payment transactions are received, then the two vehicles whose geographical positions are known by those of the detectors are in good standing. For this sequence, a control signal will be sent to the control means,

• from the moment when the shortest paid duration has expired, if the processing unit has received no vehicle absence signal, sent by one or the other of the two vehicle detectors, until 'on the expiry of the shortest paid term, or
• from the moment when the longest paid duration has expired, if the processing unit has received one and only one vehicle absence signal, sent by one or the other of the two vehicle detectors, until the expiry of the longest paid term.

The absence of vehicle signal means the signal marking the end of the detection of the presence of a vehicle by a detector, indicating that the vehicle has left the parking space monitored by the detector.

If the arrival of a second vehicle is interposed before a first payment, the processing unit detects such a sequence. If no second payment is made before the expiry of the pre-recorded period, starting on receipt of the second arrival signal, the two vehicles in question will be declared as being in an undefined state for one and in breach for the other. from the moment the predetermined time has elapsed. In such a case, the clarification can be done after an agent has been informed of the situation so that he intervenes on the site, that is to say has received a control signal sent by the processing unit. for the detected sequence. Judiciously, the agent will be provided with a PDA serving as control means 5, connected by GPS or equivalent with the server serving as a processing unit. The agent therefore has the option to initiate the administrative procedure for the offending vehicle and can also send a message to the server to confirm the missing geographical link (s).

• à partir de l'instant où la durée payée la plus courte est expirée, si l'unité de traitement n'a reçu aucun signal d'absence de véhicule, envoyé par l'un ou l'autre des 3 détecteurs de véhicule, jusqu'à l'expiration de la durée payée la plus courte, ou
• à partir de l'instant où la durée payée la plus longue est expirée, si l'unité de traitement a reçu un nombre de signaux d'absence de véhicule compris entre 1 et 2, envoyé par l'un ou l'autre des 3 détecteurs de véhicule, jusqu'à l'expiration de la durée payée la plus longue.

By extension, the same principle can be extended to the consecutive arrival of three vehicles before the first of the three payments has been made. In this case, n is equal to 3. If the three payments were made within the prescribed time, starting on receipt of the third vehicle presence signal, the operation is similar to the previous case: the three vehicles whose known geographical positions by those of the three detectors, will be declared in order. For this sequence, a control signal will be sent to the control means,

• from the moment when the shortest paid duration has expired, if the processing unit has received no vehicle absence signal, sent by any of the three vehicle detectors, until 'on the expiry of the shortest paid term, or
• from the moment when the longest paid duration has expired, if the processing unit has received a number of vehicle absence signals between 1 and 2, sent by one or other of the 3 vehicle detectors until the expiry of the longest paid period.

If the arrival of a second and a third vehicle is interposed before the first payment, the processing unit detects such a sequence. If not more than one additional payment has taken place before the expiry of the pre-recorded delay, starting with the reception of the third arrival signal, a control signal will be sent, from the moment the predetermined time has expired, to the control means to indicate that one or two all three vehicles is in violation.

Note that in this case, there may be an additional intermediate state corresponding to the arrival of a fourth vehicle after the processing unit has received a payment signal for one of the payments corresponding to the first three vehicles. However, the presence signal sent by a fourth detector will not be included in the sequence of the first three vehicles but may mark the beginning of another sequence.

In the execution mode providing for a payment counter, when a vehicle parks, this counter passes to the value 1. If this operation is followed by a payment, the counter returns to 0, indicating that there is correlation. between the last payment and the parking operation. In the case where two vehicles park before the first of the two payments, the sequence will be detected by the processing unit duly programmed and the counter will go to two and will be followed by a double decrement if, before the expiry of the pre-recorded delay, starting on receipt of the arrival signal of the second vehicle, the two payment signals are received by the processing unit (eg less than 3 minutes), this making it possible to correlate the two payment operations to the two parking spaces without can define individually which payment corresponds to which parking.

If the counter must remain at a value of one at the expiration of the predetermined duration, starting at the reception of the arrival signal of the second vehicle, it will be automatically decremented from one simultaneously to the sending, by the processing unit. , a control signal announcing that one of the two vehicles is in violation and that it is necessary to send a screening officer.

If the counter must remain at a value of two for a time greater than a predefined value (for example 5 minutes), corresponding to a predetermined time window marking the end of the sequence, the counter will be automatically decremented from two simultaneously with the sending, by the processing unit, of a control signal announcing that the two detected vehicles are in violation and that it is necessary to send a control agent.

The Fig. 4 presents a pattern similar to that of the figure 3 . However, the payments are made from mobile phones 41. The signals of the vehicle sensors are sent to an intermediate hub 42 before being sent by GSM / GPRS or equivalent to the central server. It is a good idea to specify that when making payments by phone, the application that manages the payment requires entering the sector or block number 43 before accepting the payment. In addition, this payment is only allowed after the motorist has pre-registered beforehand and as a result, the registration number of the vehicle is known on the server.

The Fig. 5 presents a pattern similar to that of the Fig. 4 in which the payments can be made on the parking meter 51 or by means of mobile telephones 52. The designation of the zone required when paying by telephone may correspond to the designation 53 of the parking meters or to an independent designation marked on specific panels 54 This last solution allows a much finer resolution for telephone payments.

As an example, the Fig. 5 presents a time stamp with the zone designation 51 and this same zone can be broken down into islands 511, 512, 513 etc. for phone payments. This finer definition makes it possible to greatly reduce the probability of ambiguities and thus to follow in a more precise way the operations carried out by the mobile phones and in particular the recharging operations if necessary.

The Fig. 6 a street in which there is a parking band 61 equipped with vehicle detectors and a parking meter 62. The area has been divided into small areas valid for time-stamp or telephone payments 63. The numbers of the small sectors may be be marked on the ground either on the side of Route 64 or Sidewalk 65. The payment transaction is preceded by the data, by the motorist, the sector number. When it is between two sectors, there is a risk of confusion. One of the methods of resolution consists in attaching the detectors to specific sectors and then, in the analysis that follows the detection of the arrival of a vehicle, it will be taken into account the possible payments made in the adjacent sectors, these The last payments will then be returned to the sector containing the detectors considered.

In other words, the processing unit 20 is programmed to make a partition of the vehicle detectors arranged in the parking area, into different parking areas numbered 64, to associate a parking area identification signal with each payment signal and detecting sector by sector the sequence such that the n vehicle detectors of a sequence belong to the same sector and the payment signal is associated with an identification signal of the same sector or one or other sectors, for example adjacent to the parking area.

Thus, this solution of division into small sectors makes it possible to greatly reduce the uncertainties related to ambiguities.

The figure 7 illustrates the embodiment of the invention in which the parking area is divided into sectors of 2 to 4 vehicles, in which the places are not numbered. Each of the detectors is attached to a numbered sector.

When the first and second vehicles arrive on the example sector 122, each motorist is asked to indicate the number of this sector in association with the payment. What everyone will do by giving the number 122 but perhaps also by indicating 121 or 123, because these are the numbers of the adjacent sectors.

This is in the case of interference, that is to say in the case where the processing unit has received the two vehicle presence signals before the first payment signal and its associated identification signal.

The processing unit is duly programmed to detect the sequence specific to the sector to which belong the two detectors having sent the two presence signals, taking into account the first payment signal whose associated identification signal is either the number 122, that is the sector number, or the number 121 or 123, that is to say the number of an adjacent sector.

Note that the processing unit 20 can be programmed to associate a time window, a first delay or a second delay specific to each sector.

References

• WO 2006/005208
• WO 2006/067813
• WO 2007/025364
• US 2007257818
• US 2002109611

Claims (4)

Vehicle parking management system, comprising vehicle detectors (33) disposed in a parking area (31, 61, 121-123) for monitoring parking spaces, payment means (10, 34, 62) d 'a fee in relation to a parking period, a means of control (5) of the periods paid and a processing unit (20) in connection with the detectors (33), the means of payment (10, 34, 62) and the control means (5), characterized in that the processing unit (20) is programmed to: i) detecting a sequence beginning with a first vehicle presence signal sent by a first vehicle detector (33) and ending with an umpteenth vehicle presence signal (33), n being greater than or equal to 2, sent by a uth vehicle detector and received until receipt of a first payment signal or until expiry of a predetermined time window marking the end of the sequence, and ii) send a control signal to the control means (5): a) from the moment when a predetermined time, starting on reception of the umpteenth vehicle presence signal, has expired, if the processing unit (20) has received, until the expiry of the predetermined time, a number of payment signals between 0 and (n - 1), b) from the moment when the shortest paid duration has expired, if the processing unit (20) has received n payment signals until the expiration of the pre-recorded period, starting at the receipt of the nth signal vehicle presence, and no vehicle absence signal, sent by any one of the n vehicle detectors (33), until the expiry of the shortest paid duration, or c) from the moment when the longest paid duration has expired, if the processing unit (20) has received n payment signals until the expiry of the predetermined period, starting at the reception of the nth signal of vehicle presence, and a number of vehicle absence signals of between 1 and (n - 1), sent by one or other of the n vehicle detectors (33), until the expiry of the longest paid term. Vehicle parking management system according to claim 1, characterized in that the processing unit (20) is programmed to perform step i) in the following particular manner: iii) if two presence signals sent by two different vehicle detectors (33) are received by the processing unit (20) within a second predetermined time period, beginning on receipt of each vehicle presence signal, representing the fact that the two detectors are arranged in the parking area at a distance from each other below a reference distance, only one of these two signals is considered as a first, a second, or an umpteenth presence signal of the sequence. Vehicle parking management system according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the processing unit (20) is programmed for: iv) partitioning (121, 122, 123) the vehicle sensors (33) disposed in the parking area (121-123) into different numbered parking areas; v) associate a parking area identification signal with each payment signal and vi) detecting sector by sector the sequence such that the n vehicle detectors (33) of a sequence belong to the same sector (122) and the payment signal is associated with an identification signal of the same sector (122) or one or more other specified sectors (121, 123). Vehicle parking management system according to claim 3, characterized in that the processing unit (20) is programmed to associate each sector with a time window, a first delay or a second delay, predetermined in a manner suitable for each sector.

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