Evaluation of On-Street Car Parking on El-Wasea Street in Sebha – Libya

Regulating on street parking REGULATING ON-STREET PARKING

* Consider the choices available to a shopper driving to a city and trying to park downtown. One option, typical to many cities, is to follow the signposts to an off-street parking facility, which is often privately operated. Another option is to search for an on-street spot. If this proves unsuccessful, it is always possible to return to the off-street facility. We formalise such a setting and...

Residential Street Parking and Car Ownership

Crowdsourcing On-street Parking Space Detection

As the number of vehicles continues to grow, parking spaces are at a premium in city streets. Additionally, due to the lack of knowledge about street parking spaces, heuristic circling the blocks not only costs drivers’ time and fuel, but also increases city congestion. In the wake of recent trend to build convenient, green and energy-efficient smart cities, we rethink common techniques adopted...

Probabilistic Routing for On-Street Parking Search

An estimated 30 % of urban traffic is caused by search for parking spots [8]. Suggesting routes along highly probable parking spots could reduce traffic. In this paper, we formalize parking search as a probabilistic problem on a road graph and show that it is NP-complete. We explore heuristics that optimize for the driving duration and the walking distance to the destination. Routes are constra...

Street Parking Detection

We present a computer vision-based street parking detection. Our system detects vacant parking spots in between the T-shaped parking markers that are commonly used to indicate parking spots on the sides of streets. We detect these T marks using a template-based sliding window approach that convolves HOG features. Using these T marks, we can find parking regions in the image, and compute color h...