CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Population growth is a great concern in urban areas. As the population grows, the number of car also increases and the demand for parking spaces rises. Even though more parking facilities are built, there are still several problems in utilization. A major problem involves the time wasted searching for parking places, which not only causes road congestion and irate drivers searching for empty parking spaces, but has a big negative impact on the environment.
Clearly, a solution is needed that will be hassle free for the parking users. The solution proposed here allows the driver to make a reservation online. The system will be monitored in a real time and will allow users to make reservations for parking
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This results in them taking a slower approach to replacing old systems which prolongs the problem (gtechna, 2016). This system aims to minimise integration issues and help foster acceptance at a comfortable pace, hence properly managing the change-over process.
There is also wasted space in some current car parking locations. In these locations, there are more parking spaces per vehicle, and most are empty most of the time. The need, location, and cost must be considered and convenience-driven to increase sustainability (Rucks and Guevara- Stone, 2013).
Although smart parking solutions have been successful, there are no city-wide solutions across the disjointed public and private parking suppliers, thus making them uncoordinated. If occupancy data exists, they lack standardization or accessibility and do not have an integration API that would allow access of these data. Hence, there is the need of having a universal API to make data more accessible and standardised.
1.3 Aim and
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This will minimize their expenses on fuel consumption. Also, the system reduces the investor’s expenses, i.e. instead of employing a lot people to monitor the parking the system, the system will only need few people to operate it effectively.
The system that will be developed infrared sensors which are more economical to purchase and operate compared to cameras. Since the system does not involve image recognition, the data storage required will be very small compared to that for images. The proposed system is managed online and is automated. Furthermore, the business owner would have less labour costs to monitor the car parking and payment options. The system that will be developed will not require plate number recognition as the user will use code to enter the parking after they make
Parking Lot Striping: Parking lot striping and professional pavement markings can help improve the safety and appearance of your parking
Over the past few years, the parking control office has been expanded and made more efficient by the addition of computers and the implementation of new filing procedures. Unfortunately, the department is still not providing the services it is capable of. This is due to the fact that the parking control office is under staffed in respect to counter attendants. This lack of sufficient people to work the front counter causes the process of appealing and paying parking tickets to become extremely bogged down. This proposal provides a cost effective solution to the problem that will not only help parking control, but will also benefit anyone doing business with the office.
Eran Ben-Joseph, a Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, did a research on the urban driving style. Joseph has come to a conclusion stating that American tends to speed more time behind the wheel, while searching for a parking spot. Joseph also stated that parking lots tend to “cover more than a third of the land area, becoming the single most salient landscape features of our built environment.” Finding parking spots is one of the major problems, and it is one of the primary sources of waste of fuel for many in the urban areas. The need for parking spots has been significantly increasing in the recent years. According to Joseph, Americans spend more than 250 hours a yearly behind the wheel,, and 40 percent of the total gasoline are wasted while searching for parking. Self-driving car’s vehicle-to-vehicle communication is one of the major effective features for transportation. These features will enable self-driving vehicles to communicate with one another and provide real-time status information about their surrounding. This feature is believed to decrease the number of hours and energy wasted while searching for parking significantly. If one car is looking for parking, it will send a status to its surrounding cars with the same features. If these cars find a parking spot, they will send back the position of availability of parking. With these kinds of algorithms, it will most likely help the environment to become safer. In addition, the vehicle-to-vehicle communication feature will be an important factor when it comes to collision avoidance. As each car can sends out data about their position, speed, break status, and additional such data to the other vehicles within a specific distance, there will be much more efficient and people will have a safe
The related concept of Ambient Intelligence (AMI) cuddles greater user-approachable, more efficient services support, user-empowerment and support for human interactions. A future vision for ITS is described with reference to efficient road traffic management, services for smart travelers making inter-model journeys, smart cars, cooperative systems and automated highways.
They have over 11,555 worldwide rental car locations and are at the point where they can cover their short-term liabilities with cash flow from their operations. Hertz’s adjusted earnings per share increased 77.1% meaning that their market value has increased. Their revenues increased by 34%, while they had a cumulative cost savings of $3 billion (Hertz Annual Report, 2013). This demonstrates that Hertz has the financial resources and the access to markets that they need. Hertz has successfully integrated their ExpressRent kiosks in more than 48 markets and their eReturn option for Hertz Gold loyalty program members, in which they have the ability to choose the Hertz ‘Fuel Purchase Value Option’ that lets them automatically buy a full tank at the start of the rental, so they can turn in the car with the gas at any level and not have to worry about filling up on the way to the
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Parking on campus needs improving. Students entering the university are allowed to have a car on campus. With every new freshmen class entering parking posses a problem on campus. The campus is already limited in its parking on campus and since freshmen are allowed to have cars, the students before them are faced with the dilemma of how many new freshmen will be bringing a car to school.
OnStar is more than just a navigation system; because of the computer-activated system the OnStar operator can remotely unlock your car, or beep the horn. All the owner has to do is call from a payphone or cel...
looking for a parking space, and waiting in line. There are many ways to save time and
Computers are used at traffic stops. The officer can find the vehicle identification number (VIN) and calls the number in to the secretary and the secretary lets the responding officer know whether or not the vehicle belongs to the driver of the car, to make sure the vehicle isn’t stolen. If the car is stolen the officer car arrest the person right then.
in major cities where the are a lot of cars, it cause pollution to be everywhere in that city.
With the modern technological world today, the hotel industry has come up with room keys, which are distributed at the electronic check-in terminals, where patrons are able to see the hotel’s resident robot keep their valise. Soundproofed rooms have powered, portable bed to save space and they can activate the air conditioning by motion sensors. Besides that, the hotel industry has no longer room numbers at their room door. Patrons are able to pinpoint and open their rooms with their mobile device that uses digital recognition technology to open up their doors.
Finding an empty parking space is a common problem in most urban areas which especially occurs in popular areas and tourist attraction spots. This situation has become more serious especially during their peak time, be it holiday seasons ,carnivals or any other festivals. The limited availability of vacant parking spaces often result in traffic congestion. Limitation of a driver’s capability of finding a vacant parking spaces and absence of efficient management are also at fault causing this problem.
It is hard to find parking on campus, especially during rush hours. Both students and professors are encountering trouble for this crisis. As a simple example, the parking lot next to the Sarkeys building is always full. This problem is a continuous, daily hazard. As a student required to maintain a lot of class schedules and activities, I suffer from the parking problem daily and find that others encounter the same. It is true that the university is working on a new parking garage, but during the construction process, there is no alternative way to settle the crisis. The official home page of OU parking and transportation services is a source to consider for exploring the problem.
In this modern era, the level of pollution worldwide has been increasing consistently which in turn has brought harm to humans via many different ways. Consequently, the government must find a solution to solve this problem as speedily as possible. However, banning the ownership of private vehicles is not the only and definitely not the best way to decrease pollution. Although carbon emissions from vehicles do contribute towards a significant amount of pollution, banning the ownership of private vehicles in modern day society is unnecessary because pollution can also be caused by many other factors such as bad lifestyle choices on humanity’s part, lack of stricter or enforcement of environmental laws by governments as well as the fact that vehicles are an essential part of modern city life.