Title :
Parking Navigation for Alleviating Congestion in Multilevel Parking Facility
Author :
Kenmotsu, Masahiro ; Sun, Weihua ; Shibata, Naoki ; Yasumoto, Keiichi ; Ito, Minoru
Author_Institution :
Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nara, Japan
Abstract :
Finding a vacant parking space in a large crowded parking facility takes long time. In this paper, we propose a navigation method that minimizes the parking time based on collected real-time positional information of cars. In the proposed method, a central server in the parking facility collects the information and estimates the occupancy of each parking zone. Then, the server broadcasts the occupancy data to the cars in the parking facility. Each car then computes a parking route with the shortest expected parking waiting time and shows it to the driver. We conducted simulation-based evaluations of the proposed method using a realistic model based on trace data taken from a real parking facility. We confirmed that the proposed method reduced parking waiting time by 20%-70% even with low system penetration.
Keywords :
mobile radio; on-board communications; radionavigation; central server; collected real-time positional information; crowded parking facility; infrastructure-to-vehicle communication; inter-vehicle communication; multilevel parking facility; occupancy data; parking navigation method; shortest expected parking waiting time; simulation-based evaluations; vacant parking space; Buildings; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Logic gates; Navigation; Servers; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Quebec City, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1880-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1090-3038
DOI :
10.1109/VTCFall.2012.6398911