ERTICO platform Enhancing Automated Valet Parking (EAVP) spent an intense four days at this years Intertraffic Amsterdam: there were SKIDATA and VALEO presentations, major leading OEMS involved, and the platform participated in EPA’s Parking Days. It showcased how it aligns industry and cities around open standards, improving user experience by turning fragmented parking data into reliable guidance, smoother journeys, and new service streams. EAVP presented its vision based on key findings about parking and the future of mobility:
Up to 80% of a driver’s itinerary is concern with parking.
30% of traffic in an urban area can be attributed to space hunting.
By 2030, 100% of new cars are expected to be connected.
Shaped by European collaboration, EAVP accelerates real deployments of Automated Vehicle Parking by uniting the world’s leading OEMs, Tier 1s, parking operators, and cities in a safe noncompetitive space around three pillars: a common data language, a shared facility map, and trusted national data spaces. This delivers the roadmap and methodology for the preparation of EAVP’s market launch demonstrator in Salzburg, Austria, later this year. As an anticipation of this action, SKIDATA and VALEO released a new video about the AVP experience
An MIT-backed study indicates guided parking can save up to 35 minutes per trip; operators report that reducing space-hunting traffic by up to 30% eases congestion and emissions while boosting yield through dynamic allocation. EAVP makes the achievement of these goals and the deployment of next generation services in parking practical. Instead of isolated pilots, partners integrate through the next version of APDS (Alliance for Parking Data Standards) communication layer to realise the full parking user journey, by exchanging availability, prices, access rights, guidance to the right spot and status in a secure format. This common language connects vehicle head units, curbside sensors, barriers, operator systems, and payment solutions, enabling on-route guidance and frictionless access. This interoperability will drive consistency across brands, cities, and facilities, as well as allow offering services such as automated charging and washing. The APDS standard is already also in line with RTTI (Real Time Traffic Information), DR (delegated regulation) EU 2024-670, as it is partly represented as DATEX II part 6 for traffic management), and compatible with NeTEx reference standard in EU MMTIS (Multi Modal Traveler Information systems) DR for Transmodal use cases.
With APDS, operators standardise interfaces, cutting bespoke integrations, and can bring new offerings to the market faster. For cities, harmonised data feeds support fair pricing, compliance, and liveable streets. APDS V5 will also enable a so- called digital TCPs (Traffic Circulation Plans) in EU cities. For drivers, the last kilometre is radically simplified: heading for the destination the driver can chose a specific location and the city will give guidance to the better parking facility, where the vehicle will park in a spot matching the driver’s requirements, which could include e.g. charging services on demand. Once drivers come back to collect their car, their account would be settled automatically and they can leave without stress.
As a result,EAVP showcased how it is designed to scale. 3,000 garages are projected to be connected in the next years. Our partners are aligning roadmaps to demonstrate end‑to‑end interoperability within 12 months, including facility mapping, and APDS messaging. This roadmap supports today’s connected guidance and tomorrow’s automated L4 valet parking, respecting European regulations, privacy, and safety. The platform offers guidance in standardised, persistent, updatable parking facility maps, in MAZE format. These maps describe entrances, lanes, restrictions, EV bays, and dynamic rules to support navigation, pricing, access, and automated functions. Valeo has opened its map specification into EAVP and the European Parking Association, ensuring an open, safe, and globally aligned approach that grows with data, shortly due to be rolled out in over 3000 parking garages. This will give cities a verifiable (and opportunity to operate dynamic policies) inventory of curbside and garage real estate, and gives operators a clear path to digital readiness.
To realise this vision EAVP promotes the EU ITS directive on NAPS (National Access Points) , providing access to the necessary data sets that link city, operator, and service-provider “data islands” through consistent non-competitive governance. This structure lowers integration costs, improves data quality through use, and keeps control with European stakeholders. It also enables orchestration use cases: matching demand to capacity, improving service and confidence by guiding drivers to suitable spaces, and activating convenience services such as EV charging and in-vehicle payments.
For an overview of EAVP activities during Intetraffic, see here.