The Informed Railroad Traveler (smartphone application) real-time street parking availability estimation.

Details

• Creators:
  Wolfson, Ouri ; Xu, Bo ; Stenneth, Leon ; Yu, Philip S. ; Yang, Jie ; Nelson, Peter C.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Illinois at Chicago. Dept. of Computer Science ; National University Rail Center (NURail) ; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering ; Argonne National Laboratory. Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Algorithms
  • Global Positioning System
  • Mobile applications
  • Parking
  • Real time information
  • Smartphones
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NURail2012-UIC-R03-A
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  National University Rail Center (NURail)
• Abstract:
  Real-time parking availability information is important in urban areas, and if available could reduce congestion, pollution, and gas consumption. This project presents a software solution called PhonePark for detecting the availability of on-street parking spaces. The solution does not rely on any dedicated infrastructure or external sensors, and therefore is much more economical than existing solutions. For any driver carrying a mobile device with global positioning system (GPS) and/or accelerometer, PhonePark can automatically determine when and where she parked her car. The proposed technology does not rely only on GPS/accelerometer for parking activity detection, instead Bluetooth enabled mobile devices can also be utilized. Parking activities can also be detected by taking advantage of pay-by-phone parking. Further contributions include an algorithm to compute the historical parking availability profile for an arbitrary street block and algorithms to estimate the parking availability in real-time for a given street block. The algorithms are evaluated using real-time and real world street parking data.
• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://www.nurailcenter.org/research/final_reports/UIC/NURail2012-UIC-R03-Combined.pdf
• Funding:
  Grant Number: DTRT12-G-UTC18 (Grant 1)
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31790/dot_31790_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.04 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:338628c87cefc773299cf9e677947d3a80bf5b930cd7fe1ac8d49e11242e5584