Off-street parking space allocation and reservation system using event-driven algorithm

Abstract

Mobility by using private vehicles has created a need of appropriate parking spaces. Usually, vacant parking spaces could be found by exploring through the entire parking area or by reservation through an Internet application. Searching a vacant parking lot by exploring would cost a driver some considerable time, while obtaining one by reservation in advance would reduce the parking lots utilization. Hence, we propose a dynamic allocation method to reserve parking space using Internet application. The proposed method would reduce the need of the driver to explore the entire parking spot by finding the vacant parking lot and do the reservation for the driver. We use event-driven scheme allocation at the event of a vehicle (car) arrived at the parking lots gate to maintain parking lot utilization level. Simulation results show that our system could reduce drivers required time to find a vacant parking lot to zero. A parking lot which implemented our system would also has parking lot utilization level as high as conventional parking system, and better than conventional Internet-based reservation parking system.