Real-time monitoring of traffic density, road congestion, public transportation, and parking availability are key to realizing the vision of a smarter city and, with the advent of vehicular networking technologies such as IEEE 802.11p and WAVE, this information can now be gathered directly from the vehicles in an urban area. To act as a backbone to the network of moving vehicles, collecting, ag...

Urban parking prices do not reflect spatially heterogeneous parking supply and demand. We present a spatially explicit model for establishing on-and off-street parking prices in a heterogeneous urban space that guarantee a predetermined uniform level of occupancy.

Automatic parking system is one of the most interesting driver assistance systems because it is recognized as a convenience system used in daily life and it is expected to become the first widely deployed driver assistance system using state-of-the-art technologies. Generally, automatic parking system consists of three components: target position designation, path planning, and path tracking by...

The aim of this study was to build ‘Ubi-Net’, a decision-making support system for systematic establishment in U-City planning. We have experienced various urban problems caused by high-density development and population concentrations in established urban areas. To address these problems, a U-Service contributes to the alleviation of urban problems by providing real-time information to citizen...

This paper describes a smart parking sensing and information system that disseminates the parking availability information for public users in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The hardware framework of the system is built on advanced wireless sensor networks and cloud service over the Internet, and the system is highly scalable. The parking information provided to the users is set in the ...

Described is a simulation model of cruising for garage parking, intended both for the calibration and evaluation of real-time parking recommendation methods, and as a base for predictive guidance to available parking. The model combines the event-based and agent-based simulation approaches to represent the parking garage and the driver behavior. It is validated by simulating a real-world parkin...

This paper considers the perpendicular reverse parking problem of front wheel steering vehicles. Relationships between the widths of the parking aisle and the parking place, as well as the parameters and initial position of the vehicle for planning a collision-free reverse perpendicular parking in one maneuver are first presented. Two types of steering controllers (bang-bang and saturated tanh-...