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 ...

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...

Musical fit, the congruence between music and product leading to improved response, is presented as an explanation of differences in recall of food items from two cultures. Musical fit predicts that, in this case, more Indian food items would be recalled when Indian music was playing, and more Malay food items would be recalled when Malay music was played. The underlining premise of this predic...

Fit testing of tight-fitting respiratory protective facepieces has been in use for some years, but there are still widespread misconceptions and misunderstandings about what a fit test pass actually signifies. Various aspects frequently generate research papers, and there are three relevant ones in this issue (Han and Lee, 2005; Kuo et al., 2005; Vaughan and RajanSithamparanadarajah, 2005). In ...

Parking is often overlooked by urban researchers even though parking consumes large proportions of a city’s physical footprint and imposes significant impediment to more sustainable travel. Underpinning this lack attention suitable data methods capable capturing the complex dynamics parking. Here we redress gap drawing on an emergent source deploying empirical techniques unpack complexity. Data...

Distribution planning in urban areas faces a lack of available parking space at customer sites. One approach to mitigate the issue is to cluster nearby customers around known parking locations. Deliveries from each parking location to its assigned customers occur by a second mode of transport (for example by foot). These lead to long service times at each of the clusters. However, long service ...

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...

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...