Determination of the parking place availability using manual data collection enriched by crowdsourced in-vehicle data

Abstract

Many cities around the world have to deal with severe parking problems as the continuously increasing demand cannot be served by the existing supply. Research has showed that a high percentage of the overall traffic in cities derives from the parking place search causing additional traffic problems and time loss. The present work describes a field trial on detecting free parking places, using vehicles equipped with ultrasonic sensors. To validate the sensor results from those vehicles a manual measurement was undertaken in two German cities which will lead to a further improvement of the current system.