An Overview of Urban Mobility: Revolutionizing with Innovative Smart Parking Systems

Abstract

This feasibility study aims to propose the design of a smart parking architecture that is able to offer new services by exploiting the latest IoT technologies. This innovative solution is designed for use by both public authorities and private individuals who need to manage urban parking areas efficiently. The contribution of this work is to attempt to define the requirements and technical choices that can be made for the design of a system that adheres to the paradigm of innovation and efficiency in smart parking. Indeed, there is a practical limit between the existing models and the best solutions to apply. For each technology, the following details are provided: the problem to be managed, the current state of the art on the market, the main solutions, and also the related commercial policies. We proceed with the “Outline Design”, which integrates the technical specifications and defines the main information flows between the functional blocks. The results of experimentation show that the proposed reservation-based parking policy has the potential to simplify the operations of parking systems, as well as alleviate cities’ traffic congestion.

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