Crowdsourced Smart Parking (Software) Helps Drivers Find an Empty Parking Spot
Crowdsourced smart parking, or crowdsourcing-based smart
parking, is a novel concept in the transportation industry, aims to provide a
cost-effective, data-driven, crowdsourced solution for parking management. This
type of smart parking system uses a crowdsourcing approach to improving traffic
management. Basically the idea is to utilize the collective intelligence of the
public to make parking better, more efficient, and safer for everyone. The
system is similar to an online crowdsourcing campaign in which information and
ideas are submitted by users to the software, and is then used to improve the
current system and future plans.
Crowdsourced smart parking combines human innovation and
technology, in an effort to use as few resources as possible to achieve denser,
easier, and faster parking of vehicles for the majority of time they remain
idle. The parking problem has been one of the biggest and challenging problems
in big cities. Crowdsourced smart parking helps drivers identify parking spots
through electronic street panels or smartphones. The system collects and
delivers real-time parking data and helps drivers find an empty parking spot. This
system can be installed in several public spaces, such as residential
communities, hospitals, office buildings, shopping malls, airports, etc.
The crowdsourced
smart parking system provides data regarding vacant parking spots available
for parking, which is helpful to avoid congestion on-street as well as off-street.
The system aims to automate and decrease time spent on manually searching for a
parking spot. Traffic congestion has increased globally during the last decade.
The major cause of traffic congestion is the high number of vehicle which was
caused by the population and the development of economy. For instance, German
roads experienced a record 745,000 traffic jams in 2018, the ADAC (Allgemeiner
Deutscher Automobil-Club) Germany. The crowdsourced smart parking system can
help solve this problem.
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