* 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...

Finding a vacant parking lot in urban areas is mostly time-consuming and not satisfying for potential visitors or customers. Efficient car-park routing systems could support drivers to find an unoccupied parking lot. Current systems detecting vacant parking lots are either very expensive due to the hardware requirement or do not provide a detailed occupancy map. In this paper, we propose a vide...

RFID technology is used by various applications to implement smart processing of data. In the parking system, RFID together with wireless sensors are used for identifying cars entering a parking area and monitoring of parking slots. However, there is no means to identify the car parked in a specific slot. This paper proposes a location technique in WSN-based parking management system using radi...

In congested urban areas, it remains a pressing challenge to reduce unnecessary vehicle circling for parking while at the same time maximize parking space utilization. In observance of new information technologies that have become readily accessible to drivers and parking agencies, we develop a dynamic non-cooperative bi-level model (i.e. Stackelberg leader-follower game) to set parking prices ...

BACKGROUND Promoting walking for the journey to and from work (commuter walking) is a potential strategy for increasing physical activity. Understanding the factors influencing commuter walking is important for identifying target groups and designing effective interventions. This study aimed to examine individual, employment-related and psychosocial factors associated with commuter walking and ...

The ability of generating and interpreting a threedimensional representation of the environment in real-time is one of the key technologies for autonomous vehicles. While active sensors like ultrasounds have been commercially used, their cost and precision is not favorable. On the other hand, integrating passive sensors, like video cameras, in modern vehicles is quite appealing especially becau...

The goal of this paper is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) as a journey planner in complex and large multimodal urban network called Rahyar. Rahyar attempts to identify the most desirable itinerary among all feasible alternatives. The desirability of an itinerary is measured by a disutility function, which is defined as a weighted sum of some criteria. The weight...

The use of helmet is compulsory for any bike driver for his safety. When one is going towards office or its destination, he carries the helmet, after parking it in a parking lot, often these helmets are stolen from the parking lot. A low cost anti theft scheme has been proposed based on microcontroller and GSM (Global system for Mobile communication) module which will generate an alarm on accou...