Smart parking is a typical IoT application that can benefit from advances in sensor, actuator and RFID technologies to provide many services to its users and parking owners of a smart city. This paper considers a smart parking infrastructure where sensors are laid down on the parking spots to detect car presence and RFID readers are embedded into parking gates to identify cars and help in the b...

s ociety’s demand for quality is influencing the environment in which people sho~, work, are entertained, and relax. Businesses are continually striving to upgrade their service and increase their return on investment. The transition between the transport system and most activities is a parking lot. It is therefore not surprising that the quality of parking lots is increasing in importance. The...

Amongst the wide range of parking solutions that can contribute to reduce parking problems or regulate parking activities, e Parking looks at developing and applying an innovative e-business application for parking space optimization. The purpose of this paper is to present the innovative e-business platform that has been deve loped, from a technical point of view, by the University of Zurich. ...

We study the regulation of one-way station-based vehicle sharing systems through parking reservation policies. We measure the performance of these systems in terms of the total excess travel time of all users caused as a result of vehicle or parking space shortages. We devise mathematical programming based bounds on the total excess travel time of vehicle sharing systems under any passive regul...

Amongst the wide range of parking solutions that can contribute to reduce parking problems or regulate parking activities, e-Parking looks at developing and applying an innovative e-business application for parking space optimization. The purpose of this paper is to present the innovative e-business platform that has been developed, from a technical point of view, by the University of Zurich. T...

We propose a method of detecting the existence of parked vehicles by processing the image of a parking lot taken by a surveillance camera. Whenever we want to park a car at a parking lot, how to find a proper parking division there causes a serious problem. The objective of the present article is in providing drivers with such information as the lot is fully occupied or relatively vacant, where...

We utilise collaborative path-finding to improve efficiency of smart parking systems and therefore reduce traffic congestion in metropolitan environments, while increasing efficiency and profitability of parking garages. A significant portion of traffic in urban areas is accounted for by drivers searching for an available parking space. Many cities have adopted a parking guidance and informatio...

This paper discusses the development of ParkPGH, a novel smart parking application that provides real time and predictive information on garage parking availability in downtown Pittsburgh. The initiative is in response to the increased demand for parking spaces in downtown Pittsburgh and the desire to improve drivers’ parking experiences. The application includes a predictive model that uses as...

Our paper approaches the parking assistance service in urban environments as an instance of service provision in non-cooperative network environments. We propose normative abstractions for the way drivers pursue parking space and the way they respond to partial or complete information for parking demand and supply as well as specific pricing policies on public and private parking facilities. Th...