Application for parking area with Android smartphone

The development of technology has an impact for the transportation sector, one of them is about parking the vehicle. Parking is a state where a vehicle is not moving for a short time because the driver is going for somewhere else. To find an empty parking spot, a driver must look up for a parking lot that has been allowed for parking, it is quite difficult to find a parking spot because the space available for parking is very limited and the amount of vehicles that need parking is very high. It needs a relatively long time for a driver to get a parking spot and can cause a traffic jam in the parking lot because many drivers are trying to find an empty spot for their vehicles. This is the reason why the author develops an application for parking lot using Android Smartphone. This paper uses Rational Unified Process Methodology and the tool that used for this paper is Photoshop CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver, MySQL, and using Unified Modeling Language tools. The programming language that used for this paper is PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor).