An intelligent architecture for metropolitan area parking control and toll collection

Abstract

U.S federal and State governments invest millions of dollars for enforcing parking control in the metro city area. Tasks like parking enforcement, towing of illegally parked vehicles and maintenance require many man-hours and resources. The parking control and revenue system in the metro are essentially dependant on devices like coin or token based parking meters, which require the use of exact change and is therefore cumbersome. Also a patrol officer is required to monitor these spaces constantly. This entails the need for a more eflicient and redundant system. In this paper, we propose an architecture for automated parking meter and driver assistance system that shaIl be connected to a centralized tramc control authority responsible for parking enforcement and toll collection. This system would provide a more efficient and redundant way of enforcilig parking control and toll collection and also assist drivers in metro area for searching an available parking space. The abovementioned architecture enables automated parking toll collection.

A Survey of Intelligent Car Parking System

“…This results in best possible use of the parking space for increasing the revenue. However, it requires man power which needs some capital [5]. Currently used parking system is not an efficient one; as the drivers are allowed to park without any restriction [6], and the parking facility cannot be used to its full extent.…”