The problem of finding parking spaces in big urban areas is one of the unsolved challenges of Smart Cities causing traffic congestion, increased carbon emission and time wasting. Network and sensor technologies available today allow to foresee Smart Cities equipped with applications able to provide real-time information on parking space availability, which can be used to assist motorists in loo...

This article examines the role of bicycle parking, cyclist showers, free car parking and transit benefits as determinants of cycling to work. The analysis is based on commute data of workers in theWashington, DC area. Results of rare events logistic regressions indicate that bicycle parking and cyclist showers are related to higher levels of bicycle commuting—even when controlling for other exp...

As the number of vehicle increases on this earth, the traffic also increases which leads to scarcity of parking. Studies shows that 30% of traffic is in urban area is due to drivers looking for parking and not able to find proper parking location. The technology makes traffic management very easy using some sensors in the smart phones only. Application of smart phone sensors for checking parkin...

The first session of this semester’s Algorithms Reading Group dealt with the problem of parking cars on the streets of New York City. The goal is to analyze different parking behaviors and observe to what extent following some parking strategy can affect the maximum number of cars that can be parked on the street. Such analysis can be useful for finding out what parking patterns provide the max...

This study underscores the importance of adopting integrated parking management policies that ensure not only more rational use of the available parking spaces, evenly balancing supply and demand and bringing in revenues to cover the parking facilities costs, but also the improved attractiveness of alternative transportation modes. Parking supply and demand flows within the UC campus are estima...

The development of the automotive technology is toward to the intelligent direction, that automatic parking system is one of the aspects. This paper has been working on research of the path planning and control method of the automatic parking system. The vehicle’s kinematic model is established at the condition that the vehicle is in a low speed reversing movement. Through studying the vehicle’...

This study evaluates individual preferences for five different cycling environments by trading off a better facility with a higher travel time against a less attractive facility at a lower travel time. The tradeoff of travel time to amenities of a particular facility informs our understanding of the value attached to different attributes such as bike-lanes, off-road trails, or side-street parki...

We extend the notion of parking functions to parking sequences, which include cars of different sizes, and prove a product formula for the number of such sequences. 1 The result. Parking functions were first introduced by Konheim and Weiss [5]. The original concept was that of a linear parking lot with n available spaces, and n cars with a stated parking preference. Each car would, in order, at...

People owning vehicles face parking problems in most metropolitan area, especially during peak hours. The difficulty roots from not knowing where the parking spaces are available at the given time, even if this is known; many vehicles may pursue a small number of parking spaces which in turn leads to serious traffic congestion. This paper focuses on different smart parking techniques developed ...

Car parking lots are an important object class in many traffic and civilian applications. With the problems of increasing urban traffic congestion and the ever increasing shortage of space, these car parking lots are needed to be well equipped with automatic parking Information and Guidance systems. Goals of intelligent parking lot management include counting the number of parked cars, and iden...