Zhiliang Deng, Dong Wang^*

Journal of New Media, Vol.5, No.1, pp. 55-64, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2023.040252

Abstract The issue of finding available parking spaces and mitigating congestion during parking is a persistent challenge for numerous car owners in urban areas. In this paper, we propose a novel method based on the A-star algorithm to calculate the optimal parking path to address this issue. We integrate a road impedance function into the conventional A-star algorithm to compute path duration and adopt a fusion function composed of path length and duration as the weight matrix for the A-star algorithm to achieve optimal path planning. Furthermore, we conduct simulations using parking lot modeling to validate the effectiveness of our approach,… More >

T. Haritha, A. Anitha^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.2, pp. 3923-3939, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036278

Abstract In crowded cities, searching for the availability of parking lots is a herculean task as it results in the wastage of drivers’ time, increases air pollution, and traffic congestion. Smart parking systems facilitate the drivers to determine the information about the parking lot in real time and book them depending on the requirement. But the existing smart parking systems necessitate the drivers to reveal their sensitive information that includes their mobile number, personal identity, and desired destination. This disclosure of sensitive information makes the existing centralized smart parking systems more vulnerable to service providers’ security breaches, single points of failure,… More >

Walaa H. Elashmawi^1,3, Ahmad Akram², Mohammed Yasser², Menna Hisham², Manar Mohammed², Noha Ihab², Ahmed Ali^4,5,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3637-3656, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035605

Abstract Parking space is usually very limited in major cities, especially Cairo, leading to traffic congestion, air pollution, and driver frustration. Existing car parking systems tend to tackle parking issues in a non-digitized manner. These systems require the drivers to search for an empty parking space with no guarantee of finding any wasting time, resources, and causing unnecessary congestion. To address these issues, this paper proposes a digitized parking system with a proof-of-concept implementation that combines multiple technological concepts into one solution with the advantages of using IoT for real-time tracking of parking availability. User authentication and automated payments are handled… More >

Faizan Rasheed¹, Yasir Saleem², Kok-Lim Alvin Yau^3,*, Yung-Wey Chong^4,*, Sye Loong Keoh⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 761-784, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034988

Abstract In today’s smart city transportation, traffic congestion is a vexing issue, and vehicles seeking parking spaces have been identified as one of the causes leading to approximately 40% of traffic congestion. Identifying parking spaces alone is insufficient because an identified available parking space may have been taken by another vehicle when it arrives, resulting in the driver’s frustration and aggravating traffic jams while searching for another parking space. This explains the need to predict the availability of parking spaces. Recently, deep learning (DL) has been shown to facilitate drivers to find parking spaces efficiently, leading to a promising performance enhancement… More >

Zhengshu Zhou^1,*, Shunya Yamada², Yousuke Watanabe², Hiroaki Takada^1,2

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 2109-2127, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.029005

Abstract Many traffic accidents occur in parking lots. One of the serious safety risks is vehicle-pedestrian conflict. Moreover, with the increasing development of automatic driving and parking technology, parking safety has received significant attention from vehicle safety analysts. However, pedestrian protection in parking lots still faces many challenges. For example, the physical structure of a parking lot may be complex, and dead corners would occur when the vehicle density is high. These lead to pedestrians’ sudden appearance in the vehicle’s path from an unexpected position, resulting in collision accidents in the parking lot. We advocate that besides vehicular sensing data, high-precision… More >

Aurora Gonzalez-Vidal¹, Fernando Terroso-Sáenz^2,*, Antonio Skarmeta¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4355-4375, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021492

Abstract Nowadays, the anticipation of parking-space demand is an instrumental service in order to reduce traffic congestion levels in urban spaces. The purpose of our work is to study, design and develop a parking-availability predictor that extracts the knowledge from human mobility data, based on the anonymized human displacements of an urban area, and also from weather conditions. Most of the existing solutions for this prediction take as contextual data the current road-traffic state defined at very high temporal or spatial resolution. However, access to this type of fine-grained location data is usually quite limited due to several economic or privacy-related… More >

Bo Zeng^*, Yixian Liu, Yangfan Luo

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.6, pp. 1713-1728, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.016678

Abstract In the future smart cities, parking lots (PLs) can accommodate hundreds of electric vehicles (EVs) at the same time. This trend creates an opportunity for PLs to serve as a potential flexibility resource, considering growing penetration of EVs and integration of distributed energy resources DER (such as photovoltaic and energy storages). Given this background, this paper proposes a comprehensive evaluation framework to investigate the potential role of DER-integrated PLs (DPL) with the capability of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) in improving the reliability of the distribution network. For this aim, first, an overview for the distribution system with DPLs is provided. Then, a… More >

Andrea Sant¹, Lalit Garg^1,*, Peter Xuereb¹, Chinmay Chakraborty²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3523-3544, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015265

Abstract The better management of resources and the potential improvement in traffic congestion via reducing the orbiting time for parking spaces is crucial in a smart city, particularly those with an uneven correlation between the increase in vehicles and infrastructure. This paper proposes and analyses a novel green IoT-based Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) smart parking system by utilizing unused garage parking spaces. The article also presents an intelligent system that offers the most favorable prices to its users by matching private garages’ pricing portfolio with a garage’s current demand. Malta, the world’s fourth-most densely populated country, is considered as a case of a… More >

Hyun Kyu Shin¹, Si Woon Lee², Goo Pyo Hong³, Lee Sael², Sang Hyo Lee⁴, Ha Young Kim^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 2493-2507, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014170

Abstract The demand for defect diagnoses is gradually gaining ground owing to the growing necessity to implement safe inspection methods to ensure the durability and quality of structures. However, conventional manpower-based inspection methods not only incur considerable cost and time, but also cause frequent disputes regarding defects owing to poor inspections. Therefore, the demand for an effective and efficient defect-diagnosis model for concrete structures is imminent, as the reduction in maintenance costs is significant from a long-term perspective. Thus, this paper proposes a deep learning-based image object-identification method to detect the defects of paint peeling, leakage peeling, and leakage traces that… More >

Manjur Kolhar^*, Abdalla Alameen

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 101-116, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.014915

Abstract System supported smart parking can reduce traffic by making it stress free to locate empty parking spaces, hence lowering the risk of unfocussed driving. In this study, we propose a smart parking system using deep learning and an application-based approach. This system has two modules, one module detects and recognizes a license plate (LP), and the other selects a parking space; both modules use deep learning techniques. We used two modules that work independently to detect and recognize an LP by using an image of the vehicle. To detect parking space, only deep learning techniques were used. The two modules… More >