To make convenient use of parking lots and effective use of parking spaces and perform efficient work for collecting fees.
This parking lot reservation system comprises a supplier sever for managing the lists of facilities and parking lots, contract related lists of both of them, information for non-existence of vehicles in the parking lots and the calculation of fees, a parking lot server for notifying the supplier server of the information for non-existence of vehicles and managing the entry/leaving of vehicles, user terminals as mobile communication terminals, a communication supplier fee calculation device for calculating fees, a communication supplier positional information manager for managing the positions of the mobile communication terminals, and an IP net. This parking lot reserving method comprises the step of transmitting reserving requests for the parking lots to the supplier server, the step of allowing the supplier server to select the parking lots having spaces from the information for the parking lots, take procedures for reservation and give information for the parking lots to the users, the step of allowing the supplier server to transmit routes to the parking lots to the user terminals and guide the users to the parking lots, and the step of allowing the fee calculation device to automatically accept payment for required fees and make payment to a person concerned through a communication supplier.
SAKAMOTO KENICHI
DOBASHI SHINICHIRO
NAGOYA HAJIME
SANO ERI
SUGANO MOTOYUKI
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