Smart cities technologies are gradually changing our urban landscape thanks to the proliferation of billions of smart devices permanently connected through the internet. Among technologies with the highest impact on citizen’s quality of life are intelligent transportation systems and in particular, smart parking applications. In this paper, we present a study evaluation the design of a smart pa...

This paper proposes a semi-automatic parking slot marking-based target position designation method for parking assist systems in cases where the parking slot markings are of a rectangular type, and its efficient implementation for real-time operation. After the driver observes a rearview image captured by a rearward camera installed at the rear of the vehicle through a touchscreen-based human m...

Transportation engineers and urban planners often report uncertain estimates as precise numbers, and unwarranted trust in the accuracy of these precise numbers can lead to bad transportation and landuse policies. This paper presents data on parking and trip generation rates to illustrate the misuse of precise numbers to report statistically insignificant estimates. Beyond the problem of statist...

Today the automobile is the dominant mode of transportation in the United States, where more than 150 million passenger vehicles are in use. Despite their centrality in the U.S. transportation system, these vehicles are not in operation approximately 95 percent of the time and must be parked in various locations, including open lots, buildings in which parking is an ancillary function, or in st...

The swiftly growing urban population of Nigeria is generating lots of tension in the cities in line with the rapid increase of vehicles. This is due to hitherto reliance on the present parking system which has no standard to check for parking spaces, hence generating problems such as traffic congestion, time wastage in search of parking slot, fuel consumption/CO emission, insecurity of vehicles...

An autonomous parking controller can provide convenience to a novice driver. However, if the controller is not designed adequately, it may endanger the car and the driver. Therefore, this paper presents a fuzzy logic controller designed for automatic parking system. The proposed system receives information about the parking environment from infrared sensors, and then generates the velocity and ...

This study investigated peoples’ opinion on auditory interfaces in contemporary cars and their willingness to be exposed to auditory feedback in automated driving. We used an Internet-based survey to collect 1,205 responses from 91 countries. The respondents stated their attitudes towards two existing auditory driver assistance systems, a parking assistant (PA) and a forward collision warning s...

This paper describes the architecture for a collaborative Car Pooling System based on a credits mechanism to motivate the cooperation among users. Users can spend the accumulated credits on parking facilities. For this, we propose a business model to support the collaboration between a car pooling system and parking facilities. The Portuguese Lisbon’s Metropolitan area is used as application sc...

Surprisingly, quantitative data about parking in the city are rare and models play a limited role in the analysis of urban parking policies, with few exceptions (e.g. Shiftan 2001). Much of the modelling literature regarding parking is theoretical in nature and has not been applied to real-world situations (e.g. Voith 1998; Petiot 2004; Lam 2006). Most policy-oriented work, in turn, hardly make...