1. Laboratory Development
The Southeast University Urban Parking Information Cloud Platform Laboratory is a research platform that integrates the interdisciplinary strengths of Southeast University’s two Class-A disciplines—Transportation Planning and Law—and relies on parking informatization technologies. The Laboratory is dedicated to innovative digital governance approaches to address the complex challenges of urban parking management.
In 2016, Southeast University established the Parking Information Cloud Platform Laboratory, jointly directed by Associate Professor Gu Dasong and Professor Chen Jun. In 2025, the Expert Committee of the Southeast University Urban Parking Information Cloud Platform Laboratory was formed. Its core members include: Liu Guoqiang, former Director of the Nanjing Municipal Parking Facilities Management Center; Cheng Shidong, Director of the Urban Transport Division at the Comprehensive Transport Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission; Sun Xiaobo, President of the Hubei Parking Industry Association; Professor Li Ming of Jinling Institute of Technology; Li Dundun, Chairman of Jiangnan Aiparking Technology Co., Ltd.; and Cao Jun of Jiangsu Normal University.
As the first research institution in China featuring an urban parking cloud platform, the Laboratory promotes interdisciplinary research that integrates transportation and law, supported by parking informatization technologies. It is committed to exploring innovative digital governance solutions to parking challenges and has made significant contributions to integrated dynamic-static traffic governance, policy optimization, and industry development.
2. Organizational Structure and Work Responsibilities
The Laboratory is established under Southeast University and jointly directed by Associate Professor Gu Dasong and Professor Chen Jun. It currently has four core researchers.
Professor Chen Jun, Co-Director, specializes in integrated urban transport planning and management, urban parking facility planning and management, public transport planning, and intelligent traffic management and control. He serves as a member of the Teaching Steering Committee for Transportation Majors under the Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of its Traffic Engineering Subcommittee, a member of the Engineering Education Accreditation Committee for Transportation, Chair of the Traffic Engineering Division of the World Transport Convention (WTC), and an expert member of the Academic Committee of Urban Transport Planning in China.
Associate Professor Gu Dasong, Co-Director, has long been engaged in research on transportation law and urban governance. He serves as a consulting expert to the Standing Committee of the Nanjing Municipal People’s Congress, a member of the first, second, and fourth Nanjing Urban Governance Committees, a member of the third Expert Committee of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission, a visiting scholar at the Supreme People’s Court (2018–2019), an external director of the Parking Company under the Nanjing Urban Construction Group, and an expert on parking governance for the Suzhou Urban Management Bureau.
Major research tasks of the Laboratory include:
（1）Building an academic exchange platform: Centering on digital governance for parking challenges, the Laboratory organizes government–industry–academia–research exchange activities through its signature event, the Nanjing Urban Parking Governance Forum.
（2）Developing parking data products: Including parking demand forecasting, parking space valuation, pricing assessments, and data rights confirmation.
（3）Parking index development: Establishing and regularly publishing county-level parking governance index systems and exemplary cases to promote collaborative governance of parking issues.
（4）Parking policy research: Providing government agencies with research on parking facility planning, parking pricing and enforcement policies, and legislative or regulatory reform proposals.
（5）Formulating group standards: Developing evaluation frameworks for multiple parking management platforms and conducting third-party assessments.
3. Major Work and Achievements
Over the past decade, the Laboratory has undertaken more than 20 national-level research projects, published over 100 academic papers, obtained six invention patents, and received two first prizes for provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress.
Major recent achievements include:
（1）Shared bicycle and e-bike volume assessment and third-party monitoring platforms. The Laboratory has supported the construction of third-party monitoring systems for shared bicycle and e-bike operations in Nanjing Qinhuai District, Nanjing Qixia District, Chengdu, Jining, Shijiazhuang, and other cities, and has conducted volume assessment studies in Wenzhou, Taizhou, and Guanyun.
（2）Parking policy research. The Laboratory drafted key policy documents such as the “Eight Nanjing Consensus on Urban Parking Problem Governance” and the “Resolution of the Nanjing Urban Governance Committee on Strengthening the Governance of Urban Parking Problems.” As deputy leading unit, it also undertook research tasks for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on shared bicycle deployment and parking management, and for the State Administration for Market Regulation on competition in the shared bicycle and e-bike market.
（3）Research on smart parking construction and operation. In collaboration with Jiangnan Aiparking Technology Co., Ltd., the Laboratory jointly released the 2022, 2023, and 2024 White Papers on the Construction and Operation of the Changshu City Smart Parking Platform.
