Suppose curb parking is free but all the spaces are occupied, and off-street parking is expensive but immediately available. In this case, you can cruise to find a curb space being vacated by a departing motorist, or pay for off-street parking right away. This paper presents a model of how drivers choose whether to cruise or to pay, and it predicts several results: you are more likely to cruise...

The proliferation of mobile devices, location-based services and embedded wireless sensors has given rise to applications that seek to improve the efficiency of the transportation system. In particular, new applications are arising that help travelers find parking in urban settings. They convey the parking slot availability around users on their mobile devices. Nevertheless, while engaged in dr...

RFID based vehicles parking technique uses micro controller with sensing circuits which sense entry and outgoing of the vehicles. In this technique the RFID card is swiped with the permission of vehicle’s parking owner. The RFID card which are given by the parking owners will be recharged by using the two push switches i.e. SW1 and SW2. When the vehicles enter in the parking system the money wi...

This paper designs an intelligent guidance system, based on wireless sensor networks, for efficient parking in parking lots. The proposed system consists of a parking space allocation subsystem, a parking space monitoring subsystem, a driving guidance subsystem, and a vehicle detection subsystem. In the system, we propose a novel and effective virtual coordinate system for sensing and displayin...

We conducted an ecological study to determine whether parking prices are associated with active commuting across US cities. We obtained parking prices for 107 US cities from the Drexel University Central Business District Public Parking Survey, obtained city prevalence of walking and bicycling to work from the American Community Survey, and used weighted least squares linear regression to explo...

one of the big concerns of big cities is facing with the increase of fossil fuel vehicles in the roads. the cars intensify greenhouse gas emission in civic centers. one approach to reduce the emission is replacing the cars by plug-in electric vehicles (pevs). in spite of reducing the emission, pevs have some adverse effect on electric distribution networks. technical challenges such as load and...

Finding a parking space is a key mobility problem in urban scenarios. Parking Guidance Information (PGI) systems could mitigate this issue, but they require information about on-street parking availability. An encouraging solution discussed in the literature is crowd-sensing by a fleet of probe vehicles, which can continuously scan the current state of parking lanes during their regular trips. ...

Semi-automatic parking system is a driver convenience system automating steering control required during parking operation. This paper proposes novel monocular-vision based target parking-slot recognition by recognizing parking-slot markings when driver designates a seed-point inside the target parking-slot with touch screen. Proposed method compensates the distortion of fisheye lens and constr...

The parking of private motor vehicles in urban areas presents the industrialized world with one of Its biggest problems. In the U.K., the government has responded to the dilemma by introducing more parking controls. The enforcement of these controls is undertaken by traffic wardens, who can impose financial penalties on motorists who park illegally. However, this form of enforcement Is expensiv...