Parking guidance systems have to be calibrated and evaluated before their application in the field. One step to accomplish this is to evaluate them in a simulated environment. This paper presents a simple model of cruising for parking in a parking garage with focus on individual drivers’ behavior. While the described model itself is too basic to completely depict a driver’s decision making proc...

Finding a vacant parking lot in urban areas is time-consuming and, thus, not satisfying for potential visitors or customers. Efficient car-park routing systems could support drivers to get an optimal parking lot immediately. Current systems detecting vacant parking lots are either very expensive due to hardware requirement for each parking lot or do not provide a detailed occupancy map. In this...

A city like Bengaluru has over millions of cars and two-wheelers on its roads but it does not have enough parking space. So, a system like “Automated Smart Car Parking” must be introduced so that it solves parking space problem and reduces time required in searching for parking space. This proposed system introduces us to one of the most efficient methods of car parking. This is done by designi...

The percentage of illegal parking in spaces reserved for the physically disabled was monitored under three sign conditions: ground markings, ground markings plus vertical signs, and vertical signs containing a message that concerned citizens were watching the spaces. Illegal parking dropped from 69.3% of 102 vehicles during the initial ground-sign condition to 57.3% of 36 vehicles in the first ...

Availability of parking within a short period of time is a critical problem. Drivers are wasting a lot of time circling around on campus multiple times to try to find a vacant spot to park especially during the peak hours. In turn, this problem is causing another one – that of wasting a lot of fuel and thus polluting the surroundings. A literature review that investigates thoroughly existing pa...

In car-sharing applications and during certain time slots, some parking stations become full whereas others are empty. To redress this imbalance, vehicle redistribution strategies must be elaborated. As automatic relocation cannot be in place, one alternative is to get a leader vehicle, driven by a human, which come to pick up and drop off vehicles over the stations. This paper deals with the v...

An automatic parking system provides convenience for drivers by automatically finding free parking spaces and steering automobiles toward them. This paper proposes a vision-based free parking space detection system. The proposed method consists of two stages. First, the automobile rearview is three-dimensionally reconstructed using the optical flow-based method. The metric information is recove...

Parking is recognized as the most difficult task among the driving tasks. Through this topic Articulated vehicle parking problem is more difficult than passenger car, because under the aspect of control theory, the vehicle and environmental nonlonomic constraint, nonlinear and time varying kinematic equations of motion, they require a sophisticated handling. In this paper Automatic Parking of A...

We present PARKAGENT, an agent-based, spatially explicit, model for parking in the city. PARKAGENT is based on the geosimulation approach, combining real-world GIS database with a multi-agent system. The model simulates the behavior of each driver in a spatially explicit environment and is able to capture the complex self-organizing dynamics of a large collective of parking agents within a non-...

With any pricing measure the degree of price sensitivity of the consumers is paramount to understanding how they will react to the given price level. This study utilises revealed preference parking trend data from parking meters ex ante and ex post of a general 50% price increase in the hourly cost of on-street parking to estimate the price elasticity of demand in this market for Dublin, Irelan...