PARKING LOT LAYOUT AND TOWNSCAPE DESIGN IN URBAN APARTMENT HOUSES

Enhanced Parking Lot Design for Stormwater Treatment

A low impact (dispersed) design demonstrates how small alterations to parking lots can reduce runoff and pollutant loads. Storm runoff was treated as soon as rain hit the ground by encorporating a network of swales, strands and a small wet detention pond into the overall design (Figure 1). When the volume of water discharged from all the different elements to the treatment train (the swales, th...

From Parking Lot to Paradise.

Reversible polydisperse parking lot model.

We use an improved reversible parking lot model to study the compaction of vibrated polydisperse media. The particle sizes are distributed according to a truncated power law. We introduce a self-consistent desorption mechanism with a hierarchical initialization of the system. In this way, we approach densities close to unity. The final density depends on the polydispersity of the system as well...

Promoting city center parking qualities using urban design guidelines

Quality is the most important consequence of an urban design project, and its promotion is the final duty of an urban designer. So "urban design guidelines" which use environmental improvement factors in their structure, have an effective role in promoting urban space quality. "Urban design guidelines" are the most important instruments in urban designers' authority, to reflect and appear im...

BluePark: Tracking Parking and Un-parking Events in Indoor Parking Lot

Finding a parking spot in a busy indoor parking lot is a daunting task. Retracing a parked vehicle can be equally frustrating. We present BluePark, a collaborative sensing mechanism using smartphone sensors to solve these problems in real-time, without any input from user. We propose a novel technique of combining accelerometer and WiFi data to detect and localize parking and un-parking events ...