An Improved Vehicle Parking Mechanism to reduce Parking Space Searching Time using Firefly Algorithm and Feed Forward Back Propagation Method

Abstract

An issue of finding parking space is a serious concern in some locations, especially shopping complexes, hospitals, buildings, malls and other premises requires large parking space for vehicles. The parking scenario becomes worst on special occasions like festivals, fiesta and weekends. The conventional developed techniques using installation of sensors in parking zone for parking vehicles becomes costly. Therefore, a reliable method is required that works for long time to manage traffic congestion that occurs while searching for parking space. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for parking vehicles using metaheuristic approaches. The developed approach provides consistent results considering two parameters, parking efficiency and parking space search time. The parking efficiency is improved and parking space search time is reduced using the Firefly Algorithm (FA) and Feed Forward Back Propagation Neural Network (NN) approach.